PROVOST

Hisakazu MIHARA, Dr.Sc. is Provost of Turkish-Japanese Science and Technology University. 

He was appointed vice president for strategic initiatives at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) in 2020. He oversees the Institute's planning and strategy, especially related to the top global university project supported by MEXT Japan and the designated national university corporation system. He was a professor of School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Tech, where he served as dean from 2016 to 2020, managing the school with 100 faculty members, establishing and maintaining the curriculum and school structure through university reorganization, and contributing to university administration from the school.

Mihara received B.S., M.S., and D.S. degrees in chemistry from Kyushu University in 1981, 1983, and 1986, respectively, and was trained as a postdoctoral fellow at The Rockefeller University from 1986 to 1988. He was an assistant professor at Kyushu Institute of Technology from 1988 to 1993, and appointed an associate professor at Nagasaki University in 1993 and Tokyo Tech in 1995. He promoted a professor at Tokyo Tech in 2005. 

His major fields of research and education are bioengineering, bioorganic chemistry, and chemical biology. He has been honored with a Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry in 2005, the Japan Bioindustry Association Award in 2009, the Best Teacher Award at Tokyo Tech in 2011, the Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work in 2015, and the Japanese Peptide Society Award in 2021.

Work Experience

April 1986

Postdoctoral Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for Japanese Junior Scientists, Kyushu University

November 1986

Postdoctoral Fellow, The Rockefeller University

October 1988

Assistant Professor, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering

April 1993

Associate Professor, Nagasaki University, Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering

April 1995

Associate Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Bioengineering, Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology

October 2005

Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Bioengineering, Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology

April 2015

Dean, Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology

April 2016

Dean, School of Life Science and Technology

April 2016

Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, School of Life Science and Technology

April 2020

Vice President for Strategic Initiatives, Tokyo Institute of Technology

July 2020

Advisor to Executive Vice President for Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology

April 2023

Provost, Turkish-Japanese Science and Technology University

Education

March 1981

Bachelor of Science, Kyushu University, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science

March 1983

Master of Science, Kyushu University, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science

March 1986

Doctor of Science, Kyushu University, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science