Members

Professor Dr. Hitoshi Washizu
Secretary: Kazuyo Nagahama
Asocciate Professor Dr. Cheng Tan( @Riken, Cross Appointment)
Specially Appointed Associate Professor: Dr. Ryuichi Okamoto
Visiting Lecturer: Dr. Yoshiki Ishii
Visiting Associate Professor: Dr. Natsuko Sugimura (@National Institute of Technology, Kagoshima College)
Visiting Professor: Dr. Ryohei Seto (@Wenzhou Institute, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Visiting Associate Professor: Dr. Go Uchida (@Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.)
Visiting Researcher: Dr. Hiroto Achira (@Hyogo Pref. Inst. of Tech.)
Center Researcher: Doctor Course 3d Grade: Naoki Yashiro (NTN Corp.)
Doctor Course 3d Grade: Eiji Tomiyama (RIST)
Doctor Course 3d Grade: Takashi Noda (NSK Corp.)
Doctor Course 3d Grade: Yohei Shimizu (Showa Denko K.K.)
Doctor Course 3d Grade: Hirotoshi Akiyama (NIPPON GREASE Co.,Ltd.)
Doctor Course 3d Grade: Tomohiro Kinjo (Asahi Kasei Corp.)
Doctor Course 3d Grade: Suguru Nishikawa (Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd.)
Doctor Course 3d Grade: kazumasa Ishikawa (kyoei Industry Co., Ltd.)
Doctor Course 2nd Grade: Minami Soma (Kyodo Yushi Co., Ltd.)
Doctor Course 1st Grade: Takehiro Kobayashi
Doctor Course 1st Grade: Shotaro Yamaguchi
Master Course 2nd Grade: Sou Imai
Master Course 2nd Grade: Yudai Ogawa
Master Course 2nd Grade: Takayuki Tomokiyo
Master Course 2nd Grade: Yasukaze Nishimura
Master Course 2nd Grade: Ryuji Hanano
Master Course 2nd Grade: Akinori Fujita
Master Course 1st Grade: Yudai Ishino
Master Course 1st Grade: Yoshito Kashihara
Master Course 1st Grade: Naoki Takahashi


2023 OBOG
Kazuki Ito (MS), Mizuki Era (MS), Yudai Tanaka (MS), Koshiro Torimoto (MS), Keito Nitta (MS), Tsuyoshi Fukaya (MS), Tomohito Horio (MS), Dr. Kosar Khajeh (Specially Appointed Assistant Professor), Mr. Mitsuyoshi Yagyu (Researcher), Taiki Togashi (Hakuryo High School, GSC-ROOT student).
2022 OBOG
Ayaka Tao (Secretary), Le Nhu Minh Tue (Ph. D., MEXT scholarship student), Riku Araki (MS), Yuya Okabe (MS), Keitaro Katayama (MS), Tomoya Hasegawa (MS), Masaki Hayama (MS), Dr. Hiraku Oshima(Associate Professor, @Riken, Cross Appointment).
2021 OBOG
Yosuke Hamano (MS), Kyosuke Kawakita (MS), Gentaro Sawai (MS), Dr. Le Van Sang (Specially Appointed Lecturer), Dr. Deboprasad Talukdar (Specially Appointed Assistant Professor)
2020 OBOG
Mutsuki Honma (MS), Ryoichi Katsukawa (MS), Ryo Matsuoka (MS), Ukiko Nomura (Secretary), Dr. Daisuke Namekata(Asocciate Professor @Riken R-CCS, Cross Appointment), Kana Nakatsuka (GSC-ROOT Student, Josei Gakuen Senior High School)
2019 OBOG
Yuki Iike (MS), Yuko Teramae (MS), Rio Nakae (MS), Dr. Masaki Okoshi (Researcher, @RIST, ESICB Kyoto Univ.), Dr. Patrick A. Bonnaud (Researcher, @Tohoku Univ.), Dr. Manabu Yagi (Researcher, @RIKEN)
2018 OB
Soma Usui (MS), Taiki Kawate (MS), Kohei Nishikawa (MS), Gentaro Sawai (Kure National College of Technology), Taiyo Taniuchi (GSC-ROOT, The High School of University of Hyogo)
2017 OB
Hirotoshi Akiyama (MS), Masakazu Konishi (MS), Ryota Ashizawa (Hitachi, Ltd.)
2016 OB
Tatsuya Maeda (MS) , Ryo Okawa (MS, Yasuda Lab.)

Curriculum Vitae


Prof. Dr. Hitoshi Washizu

Graduate School of Simulation Studies, University of Hyogo

Positions

Academic Degrees

Project Researcher at MEXT (the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan) (with Grants)

  • 2022- RIKEN, Visiting Researcher
  • 2022- Computational Science Lab., Inc. CTO
  • 2015-2022 Research Center Professor at the Elements Strategy Initiative for Catalysts and Batteries (ESICB), Kyoto University.
  • 2012-2015 Project Researcher, the Elements Strategy Initiative for Catalysts and Batteries (ESICB), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
  • 2007-2011 Co-researcher at the Next-generation Supercomputer System Project, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan
  • 2003-2006 Co-researcher at the National Research Grid Initiative (NAREGI) Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan

Part-time Lecturer etc

Academic Societies

Awards

  • 2004 Young Researcher Award, Japanese Society of Tribologists
  • 2015 Paper award of TROL, Japanese Society of Tribologists
  • 2016 Student award, Japanese Society of Tribologists (Tatsuya Maeda)
  • 2017 The Best Poster Award, in 5th Malaysia-Japan Tribology Symposium (MJTS2017) (Masakazu Konishi)
  • 2017 "The Best Poster Award" in 6th World Tribology Congress (WTC2017). (Hirotoshi Akiyama)
  • 2017 "The Best Poster Award" in 6th World Tribology Congress (WTC2017). (Masakazu Konishi)
  • 2018 The Best Poster Award, in Kansai Lubrication Round-Table Conference. (Kohei Nishikawa)
  • 2018 The Best Poster Award, in 9th Autumn school of Tribology. (Kohei Nishikawa)
  • 2018 Information, Intelligence and Precision Equipment Division, Certificate of Merit for Best Presentation, The Japan Scociety of Mechanical Engineers. (Kohei Nishikawa)
  • 2018 Student award, Japanese Society of Tribologists (Kohei Nishikawa)
  • 2019 The Best Poster Award, in 10th Autumn school of Tribology. (Mutsuki Honma)
  • 2019 The Best Student Presentation Award, in 33d Meeting of Molecular Simulation Society of Japan. (Yohei Shimizu)
  • 2019 Student award, Japanese Society of Tribologists (Yuki Iike)
  • 2020 Best Research Award, University of Hyogo
  • 2020 Best Presentation Award, The Young Researchers Community of the Japan Association of Solution Chemistry (Yoshiki Ishii)
  • 2020 Best Poster Award, Symposim of University of Hyogo (Yoshiki Ishii, Nobuyuki Matubayasi, Go Watanabe, Takashi Kato, Hitoshi Washizu)
  • 2021 Encourage Award, 23th Students Conference of The Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan (Kana Nakatsuka, Takehiro Kobayashi, Ryo Matsuoka, Yoshiki Ishii, Hitoshi Washizu)
  • 2021 The Excellent Poster Award, in Kansai Lubrication Round-Table Conference. (Kyosuke Kawakita)
  • 2021 Young Scientist Award, The Japan Association of Solution Chemistry (Yoshiki Ishii)
  • 2021 Best Poster Award, CCP2021 (XXXII IUPAP Conference on Computational Physics) (Yoshiki Ishii)
  • 2022 Student award, Japanese Society of Tribologists (Tomoya Hasegawa)
  • 2022 MIPE2022 Student Award (Masaki Hayama)
  • 2022 Best Poster Award, Symposim of University of Hyogo (Takashi Noda)
  • 2022 Best Voting Prize, All Japan Students Research Presentation in GSC (Taiki Togashi)
  • 2022 Excelent Award, JSEC2022JSEC (Japan Science & Engineering Challenge) (Taiki Togashi)
  • 2023 Excellent Poster Award, K-TRIB2023 (3rd Korea-Tribology International Symposium (Koshiro Torimoto)
  • 2023 Student award, Japanese Society of Tribologists (Tomohito Horio)
  • 2023 The Best Poster Award, in 11th Autumn school of Tribology. (Takayuki Tomokiyo)

Teaching

  • Elements of Computational Physics (Master Course, 2018-)
  • Elements of Computational Science (Master Course, 2016-2017)
  • Simulations for Practical Materials (Master Course, 2015-)
  • Fundamentals for Material Simulation (Doctor Course, 2016-)

  • Simulation and modeling of Natural and Social Phenomena (Bachelor Course, Department of Sicences, University of Hyogo, 2016-)
  • Micro Technology (Bachelor Course, Department of Engineering, University of Hyogo, 2017-)
  • Special Lecture in Mechanical Engineering (Master Course, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 2016)
  • Special Lecture in Mechanical Engineering (Master Course, Graduate School of Engineering, Tottori University, 2017)
  • Special Lecture in Micro-Nano System Engineering (Master Course, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, 2006-)