Speakers
Dr. OBARA Haruhiko
Executive Officer, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Dr. OBARA Haruhiko is currently Executive Officer of the National
Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), and
Director-General of the Department of Energy and Environment, AIST.
Dr. OBARA graduated from the Department of Applied Physics, the
University of Tokyo, and joined the Electrotechnical Laboratory of the
Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, a predecessor of the
current AIST, in 1987. He received his Ph. D in Applied Physics from
the University of Tokyo in 1990. He began his career as a research
scientist in superconductivity, and e xpanded his research to
thermoelectric energy conversion. He was a postdoctoral researcher in
DPMC, University of Geneva, from 1993 to 1994, and was a visiting professor in the
faculty of industrial science and technology, Tokyo University of Science, from 2015 to
2019. He participated in various energy conservation technology projects, and is now the
project leader of the Research and Development Project for Innovative Thermal
Management Materials and Technologies, founded by the New Energy and Industrial
Technology Development Organization (NEDO).
Dr. OBARA was appointed Executive Officer of AIST in 2021 and Director-General
of the Department of Energy and Environment in 2020. ORCID: 0000-0002-5683-1837
