Directors & Senior Management

Outside Director

Kazue KuriharaBorn January 24,1951

Professional background

October 1992 Associate Professor, Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Nagoya University
April 1997 Professor, Institute for Chemical Reaction Science (now known as Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials), Tohoku University
April 2010 Professor, Advanced Institute for Materials Research and Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University
April 2016 Professor Emeritus, Tohoku University (current position)
April 2017 Professor, New Industry Creation Hatchery Center, Tohoku University
December 2020 Outside Director, Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. (current position)
April 2021 Research Professor, Tohoku University
January 2022 Director, SMILEco Measurement Co., Ltd. (current position)
June 2023 Outside director, MGC (current position)
April 2025 Senior Research Fellow, New Industry Creation Hatchery Center, Tohoku University (current position)

Reason for election:

 She has highly advanced expertise in wide fields of study in chemicals.

Photo: Outside Director Kazue Kurihara