
Masahiro Yoshimura is a Chair Professor (Distinguished) of National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. He earned D.Sc. in Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan in 1970. 1973-1977,he was a Pos-Doc. researcher in CNRS Labs.,Odeillo,Orleans and Vitry-sur-Seine,France and M.I.T.,USA. In 1978, he was an Associate Professor,then Professor (1985) in Tokyo Institute of Technology, till became a Professor Emeritus in 2008. He worked on Phase Equilibria of Zirconia, Rare Earth Oxides, and Hydrothermal/Solution Processes of Zirconia, HAp, BaTiO3, LiCoO2, etc. He has >700 peer-reviewed papers, >10,000 citations and h-index = 53 as an ISI Highlycited Researcher since 2004. His Presidentships are in World Academy of Ceramics, International Hydrothermal and Solvothermal Association, MRS-Japan, etc. He has proposed novel concepts like Polymer Complex Method, Soft Processing, Hydrothermal carbon, and Growing Integration Layer, etc.