Naoyuki Amemiya

Professor Naoyuki Amemiya received his Dr. Eng. Degree from the University of Tokyo in 1990. He joined Yokohama National University in the same year (Lecturer in 1992; Associate Professor in 1993; Professor in 2005) and transferred to Kyoto University in 2008. He stayed at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in 1996 as a Visiting Scientist and at University of Twente from 2000 to 2001 as an Exchange Scientist between JSPS and NWO.

His research interests include electromagnetic phenomena of superconductors (ac loss, magnetization affecting field qualities of magnets, stability, quench, etc.) and magnet / coil applications of superconductors in various areas (energy area contributing carbon neutralization, medical area, science and technology area, etc.). He is intensively studying high-current high Tc superconductors, which is one of the key components of large-scale applications of superconductors. He has been involved in various R&D projects funded by the Japan Science and Technology Agency, the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, etc.

He has been serving for various international conferences. He is currently the Japan Technical Committee Chair of IEEE Council of Superconductivity and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity. He was the elected Board Member of ASC, Inc. from 2006 to 2016 and was the Program Chair of ASC 2016. He was the Asian Editor and Executive Board Member of Superconductor Science and Technology from 2009 to 2014. He is the Senior member of IEEE and the members of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, the Physical Society of Japan, Cryogenics and Superconductivity Society of Japan, the Japan Society of Plasma Science and Nuclear Fusion Research.