Open Innovation Institute Program-Specific Professor
Dr. Tetsuo Kobayashi has been involved in the studies of MRI, Biomagnetism and Neuroimaging. His research interests also include Biomedical signal processing, Atomic Physics, and Cognitive Neuroscience. He is an author or co-author of more than 290 publications. In 2006, he started a joint research project to develop super-sensitive optically pumped magnetometers and their biomagnetic applications as well as ultra-low-field MRI.
At present, he is a councilor of International Society for Brain Electromagnetic Topography (ISBET), the Vice-President of Institute of Complex Medical Engineering (ICME) and Chair of ISMRM Japanese Capter. In addition, he is an associate editor of an international journal “Neuroscience & Biomedical Engineering” and an editor of “International Journal of Magnetic Particle Imaging”.
In 2018, he was awarded James Zimmerman Prize from International Federation of Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE) as the first Japanese winner of the Prize.