| Biography of Hirohisa Uchida, School of Engineering, Tokai University, 4-1-1 Kita-Kaname, Hiratsuka-City, Kanagawa 259-1292, Japan |
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Prof. Dr. Hirohisa Uchida received Dr. Sc. from University of Stuttgart, Germany, 1977, with a thesis for reaction kinetics of hydrogen on the metal surface. He was engaged in the basic research of metal-hydrogen systems at the Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart from 1975 to 1981. Since 1981, he has been active at Tokai University, Japan, in the R&D of hydrogen storage materials and their application. In 1988, he demonstrated that solar photo voltaic energy (1kW) can be stored as hydrogen in a metal hydride (50kg) by an actual operation more than 10 years, and that a nickel-metal hydride battery can be cyclically used over 1000 times. He received an award from the Rare Earth Society Japan for his excellent contribution to the R&D of rare earth intermetallics such as rare earth based hydrogen storage alloys, nitromagnets and giant magnetostrictive thin films. He was appointed as Editorial Board Member of Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, Elsevier, 1999, and as Honorary Editor of J. Alloys and Compounds, Elsevier, 2006. He is actively involved in realizing a hydrogen society by the collaboration among academic, governmental and industrial sectors and by his 40 years experience with hydrogen storage technology and renewable energy.
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