Editor Name: Seiki Chiba

Designation: Professor

University: Chiba Science Institute

Country: Japan

Biography: Prof. Seiki Chiba is the CEO and Professor, Chiba Science Institute. He was an Executive Director for Advanced R&D Project Development,?Stanford?Research Institute (SRI International) till Jan. 2011. He served on SRI for 20 years. Dr. Chiba was supervising advanced R&D programs including Japanese Government projects. Before joining SRI, he worked at Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute Technology, as visiting scientist for three years. He is the author or coauthor of more than 377 publications in the various areas including artificial muscle actuators & generators, hydrogen safety, and high temperature membranes for hydrogen production. He also wrote 29 books, as the author and co-authors, for computer simulation, micromachine, catalysis, fuel cells, conductive materials, R&D Management, artificial muscle actuators, high temperature membranes for hydrogen production, hydrogen safety, renewable energy, wave power generation, etc. He has a Ph.D. in Metallurgy & Material Science from the University of Wales (Britain). He jumped to the Ph.D. course without doing M.Sc. He received lots of prizes including “IAAM medal for outstanding contribution in the field of Advanced Material Science and Technology in 2016”, and “the best paper award from the 5th International Symposium on Environmental Conscious Design in 2007”.