Prof. Yuichi Ikuhara, the awardees of 2010 Lee Hsun Lecture Award was invited to visit IMR from Nov. 4-7. During his visit, Prof. Ikuhara delivered a lecture entitled: Atomic Structures and Properties of Ceramic Interfaces-Combination of Cs-corrected STEM and First Principles Calculations. Before the lecture, Deputy Director, Prof. YANG Rui met and presented the plaque of the Lee Hsun Lecture Award to Prof. Ikuhara. During his stay in IMR, Prof. Ikuhara visited IMR Lab., and had a discussion with scientists and students from Solid Atomic Imaging Division.

Dr. Yuichi Ikuhara is the Professor and Director of Nanotechnology Center, Institute of Engineering Innovation at University of Tokyo since 2003. He received his Ph.D from Department of Materials Sciences, Kyushu University; he then joined Japan Fine Ceramics Center (JFCC) in 1988, and was the Division Manager of the Microstructure Characterization Division at JFCC from 1993. In 1996, he joined University of Tokyo as an associate professor of Materials Sciences. He was a visiting assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University from 1991 to 1993. His current research interest is in interface and grain boundary phenomena, transmission electron microscopy (STEM, HREM, EDS, EELS), high-temperature ceramics, electroceramics, dislocations, bicrystal experiments, theoretical calculations, quantum device and so on. Dr.Ikuhara is the author or coauthor of 410 technical papers in the field, and has more than 200 invited talks at international and domestic conferences. He has received “Humboldt Research Award” from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2010), “Honda Frontier Prize” from Honda Foundation (2010), “Seto Prize” from Microscopy Society of Japan (2007), “Fulrath Award (Academic)” from the American Ceramics Society (2002), “Academic Prize” from the Ceramics Society of Japan (2001), “Exploits Awards” from the Japan Institute of Metals (2001) and so on. He is the former chief editor of “Journal of Ceramics Society”, the editorial board of “Materials Science and Engineering A”, “Materials Transaction” and so on. He is the member of the board of directors at Microscopy Society of Japan, Japan Institute of Metals, MRS of Japan and the Ceramics Society of Japan, and the associate member of the Science Council of Japan. He holds a group leader position at JFCC and WPI professor at Tohoku University concurrently.