An Introduction to Professor Shuichi Miyazaki

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Professor Shuichi Miyazaki has made significant and milestone contributions to the knowledge and technology of shape memory alloys through his pioneering work in the past four decades. Professor Miyazaki obtained his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Osaka University in 1979. He then joined University of Tsukuba as an Assistant Professor, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1990, Full Professor in 1998, and Specially Appointed Professor in 2015, a post he still holds today. In his career, he has also received many visiting fellowships in other countries, such as Visiting Scientist at the University of Illinois and Gledden Visiting Senior Fellow at the University of Western Australia in the 1980s; Honorary Fellow at the University of Minnesota, Visiting Professor at the University of Franche-Comte, and Mosey Visiting Senior Fellow at the University of Western Australia in the 1990s; and a World Class University Professor at Gyeongsang National University, Visiting Professor at King Abdulaziz University, and Visiting Professor at Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris in more recent times. …