Prof. Hiroyuki Hamada

Dir. of Future-Applied Conventional Center
Kyoto Institute of Technology

Hiroyuki Hamada is a professor of Kyoto Institute of Technology. Now he is the director of Future-Applied Conventinal Technology Center from April of 2005 and the director of Advanced Fibro science in Kyoto Institute of Technology from April of 2006.

Prof. Hiroyuki Hamada was born in Osaka of Japan in 1955. He received his doctoral degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Doshisya University, Japan in 1985. After that he worked at Osaka Municipal Technical Research Institute for 4 years and then joined the Division of Advanced Fibro science in Kyoto Institute of Technology as an assistant professor firstly. He research interests were concentrated on composites and the related technology and engineering. During the following 12 years’ researches, he got 8 awards from various domestic or international conferences and the professor title in 1998. He has been the executive director and council member of more than 40 academic organizations and the editor of 12 academic journals. From 2005, he was selected to be the director of Future-Applied Conventional Technology Center in Kyoto Institute of Technology. And his research field was extended to tradition craft technologies. He believes that the excellent skills and wisdom which are inhered in tradition craft combined with modern technology can help people to make new products for future.