Takao Aoyagi PhD

Dr. Takao Aoyagi is a Professor in the Department of Materials and Applied Chemistry of Nihon University in Tokyo, Japan. He received his Ph.D. at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1993. After finishing the Graduate School of Science and Engineering of Waseda University, he belonged to a Japanese chemical company (Lion Corporation, 1986-1987) and a private institute (Sagami Chemical Research Center, 1987-1995). He became an assistant professor at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering in 1995 and an associate professor in 2001, at Tokyo Women’s Medical University. In 2002, he was promoted to full professor in the Department of Nanostructure and Advanced Materials of Kagoshima University. In 2009, he moved to the Biomaterials Center and Coordinating Director of Nanotech-driven Materials Research for Biotechnology, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Tsukuba, Japan. His present research field is the design of smart biomaterials for biomedical applications