Takao Hanawa

Dr. Takao HANAWA is a Council Member of the Science Council of Japan since 2020 and a Fellow of The International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering (IUSBS). He has also positions as Specially Appointed Professor, Osaka University and Visiting Professor, Kobe University. He was Professor of Department of Metallic Biomaterials, Institute of Biomaterials and Bioengineering, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan, since 2004 and has retired 2023. He was once presidents of the Japanese Society for Biomaterials and Japanese Society for Dental Materials and Devices. He has developed new metallic biomaterials and several surface treatment techniques. He has published 321 original research papers and 106 review papers. His Scopus h-index is 54 at present.