Biography

Professor Takanobu Kiss received his doctorate in 1991 from Kyushu University (KU), Japan. That April, he became a faculty member of KU, and has been a full professor of Dept. of Electrical Engineering of KU since 2007. Currently, he is the Director of both Research Institute of Superconductor Science and Systems, and Low Temperature Center at KU. He is also appointed as Senior Program Officer of Research Center for Science Systems, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) since April 2023. He is expert in the area of superconducting materials characterization. He has developed novel techniques including in-situ operand measurements to clarify local electromagnetic properties of superconducting materials and coil windings. Especially, he has recently succeeded in upgrading functions of the magnetic microscopy by introducing deep-learning based image analyses. These studies focus on understanding and resolving key performance issues of superconducting practical materials. He has published 200+ research papers, 5 book chapters, and given 60+ invited talks at international conferences. He is recipient of 15th JSAP Fellow Award in 2021 from Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP), Outstanding Achievement Award in 2018 from Cryogenics and Superconductivity Society of Japan (CSSJ), 19th Superconductor Science and Technology Award in 2015, and 10th Superconductor Science and Technology Award in 2006 both from the Society of Non‐Traditional Technology. He is currently leading the project of “Systematization of characterization technologies for high-temperature superconducting wires, conductors and coil windings, and their development to highly reliable magnets” as PI funded by JSPS "KAKENHI" Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) (FY: 2019-2023), and India-Japan joint research cooperation program (FY: 2022-2023) in collaboration with Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He has been contributing also to the management of international academic organizations and conferences. He is currently a Board Member of Int’l Cryogenic Engineering Committee (ICEC), Int’l Cryogenic Materials Conference (ICMC), European Society for Applied Superconductivity (ESAS), CSSJ, and a member of Administrative Committee of the IEEE Council on Superconductivity. He was in charge of organizing committee chair of 10th ACASC / 2nd Asian-ICMC / CSSJ Joint Conference at Okinawa, Japan in 2020, and local organizing committee chair of 27th Int’l Conference on Magnet Technology (MT27) which was held as a hybrid conference at Fukuoka, Japan in 2021.