Bio
Tomohiro Hayashi received his Ph.D. degree in 2003 from Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. He joined Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2003 as a postdoc and was promoted to an associate professor in 2010. His specialist areas are surface and interface science, scanning probe microscopy, materials informatics, and computer simulations. He has been awarded 11 academic prizes, including the Asahi Kasei award of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan (2011). A summary of his activities is given at http://lab.spm.jp/. (tomo@mac.titech.ac.jp)