Prof.Dr. Yoichiro MATSUMOTO

Dr. Matsumoto was appointed as Science and Technology Advisor to the Minister for Foreign Affairs in April 2020. He was President of Tokyo University of Science from 2018 to 2021, after serving as Executive Director of RIKEN from 2015 to 2018. Dr. Matsumoto received his Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral degrees all from the University of Tokyo in Mechanical Engineering respectively in 1972, 1974 and 1977.  He became Lecturer of the same University in 1977, Associate Professor in 1978 and full professor in 1992. He served as Dean of School of Engineering from 2006 to 2008, and served as Executive Vice President from 2009 to 2015.  He is now Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo and serving as a Program Director of Japan Science and Technology Agency.

Dr. Matsumoto’s scientific interests are computational engineering, fluids engineering and biomedical engineering. His research works have received numerous awards; JSME Medals for Outstanding Paper in 1992, 1998, 2007 and 2011, ASME Calvin W. Rice Lecture Award in 2005, JSME Fluids Engineering Award, JACM Award for Computational Mechanics in 2007, APACM Award for Computational Mechanics in 2010, ASME Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award in 2010 and JSMF Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016.

He served as President of the Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics in 2004, President of the Visualization Society of Japan in 2007, and President of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2010. He is an honorary member of VSJ and JSME and Life Time Member of ASME. He is a fellow of JSFM, JSME, and ASME and member of the Engineering Academy of Japan, and a cooperation member of the Science Council of Japan.