Dr. Takao Suzuki was former Director for Center for Materials for Information Technology (MINT Center), and Professor of the Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at University of Alabama.
He received his PhD degree from Department of Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology. He worked at Max Planck Institute, Germany, Tohoku University, Japan, and also at IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California and retired in 2000. He was Vice President and principal professor at Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, Japan. He joined UA in 2010 and retired in 2021. He is Professor Emeritus at UA.
His research field includes magnetism and magnetic materials, energy storage materials, spintronics related devices. He has published more than 310 scientific papers in peer review journals, has written 4 books. He holds 17 patents licensed in U.S.A. and other countries.
Dr. Suzuki has received the IEEE Magnetic Society Achievement Award, the Society Award of the Magnetics Society of Japan, IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer Award, Technical Achievement Award of the Magnetics Society of Japan, and Ogawa Award.
Professor Suzuki was the past president of the IEEE Magnetics Society and is an IEEE Life Fellow. He is also Fellow of the Magnetics Society of Japan. Dr. Suzuki is Professor Emeritus of Toyota Technological Institute.
Dr. Suzuki has involved with many international conferences as chairs and program chairs, such Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Conferences, International Conferences on Magnetics, and Magneto-optical Recording International Symposium.
