Speakers
Someya, Takao
- Professor, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Dr. Takao Someya is Executive Director and Vice President (responsibility: start-up, capitalization of knowledge) and Professor at the University of Tokyo. He is recognized as an inventor of electronic skins, which was featured in TIME Magazine as one of the best inventions of the year in 2005. Dr. Someya’s current research focus is on next-generation wearables with organic electronics for application to healthcare, biomedical, and robotics. He earned his doctorate in engineering from the University of Tokyo and his additional positions include Global Scholar at Princeton University, GlobalFoundaries Visiting Professor at National University of Singapore, and Hans Fisher Senior Fellow at Technical University of Munich. The 16th Leo Esaki Prize and the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2019 are among the awards he has received, and he is the 2024 President of the Materials Research Society in the US.