Ichiro Fujii Japanese Academic Awardee

Ichiro Fujii is an Associate Professor of Graduate Faculty of Interdisciplinary Research at University of Yamanashi, Japan. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Materials Science from Tohoku University, Japan in 2003 and 2005, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in 2010. He joined University of Yamanashi as a researcher in 2010, and he joined Ryukoku University, Japan as an Assistant Professor in 2012. He moved back to University of Yamanashi as an Assistant Professor in 2017 and became an Associate Professor in 2022.

He has studied dielectric, ferroelectric, and piezoelectric materials, since he joined Penn State University. His major research achievements include (1) the development of the structure-property relationship in lead-free BaTiO3-Bi(Mg1/2Ti1/2)O3-BiFeO3 piezoelectric ceramics and (2) the fabrication of the electro-optic transparent ceramics by a conventional pressureless sintering technique. Recently, he has studied the solid-state crystal growth of lead-free piezoelectric single crystals.

He has been a member of ACerS since 2019. He received the Edward C. Henry Award from the Electronics Division in 2020.