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Prof. Naoto OHTAKE（Materials Processing Science Research Core）

Naoto OHTAKE is appointed to a Professor in FIRST on April 2018. He graduated from the Graduate School of Tokyo Tech with a Master’s degree of Mechanical Engineering in 1988, and later received a Doctor’s degrees in the field of mechanical engineering from Tokyo Tech in 1992. From 1992 to 2006, he was with the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Tokyo Tech, first as research associate, next as associate professor. From 2006 to 2009, he was with the Department of Materials, Physics and Energy Engineering of Nagoya University, as associate professor. From 2009 to 2010, he was with the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Tokyo Tech, as associate professor. He has been a Professor at Tokyo Tech since 2010, and served Advisor to the President from 2012 to 2015, and a Vice President for Research Promotion of the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) from October 2015 to May 2018. His main field of interest is surface engineering and science, including chemical vapor deposition and physical vapor deposition of hard carbon films and its application to industrial uses.