Rui Tamura

Dr. Tamura received his PhD degree in 1980 at the Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Japan. After three-years postdoctoral fellowship supervised by Dr. L. S. Hegedus at Colorado State University and Dr. M. F. Semmelhack at Princeton University in USA, he obtained the positions of an Assistant Professor at the National Defense Academy in 1983, an Associate Professor at Ehime University in 1988, at Hokkaido University in 1995 and at Kyoto University in 1997, and a Professor at Kyoto University in 2002. He was retired from Kyoto University in 2018. He has published more than 200 research articles.