Masataka Higashiwaki
Osaka Metropolitan University and National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Masataka Higashiwaki is a professor in the Department of Physics and Electronics at Osaka Metropolitan University. Additionally, he serves as the Director of Green ICT Device Laboratory at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), and is an honorary professor at the University of Bristol
. He received the BS, MS, and PhD degrees in solid-state physics from Osaka University, in 1994, 1996, and 1998, respectively. After a two-year postdoctoral fellowship, he joined the Communications Research Laboratory (CRL) in 2000. From 2007-10 he took a temporary leave from NICT, which was renamed from CRL, and joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara as a project scientist. He returned to NICT in 2010 and started pioneering work on Ga2O3-based electronics. In 2022, he joined the
Department of Physics and Electronics at Osaka Metropolitan University. His current research interest is in Ga2O3 devices and material engineering.
He has published over 140 peer-reviewed papers and 19 book chapters, and has 51 issued patents. He has also given more than 120 invited, plenary, or keynote talks at international conferences. His work has been recognized through
several awards, including the 2022 Ichimura Prize in Science for Distinguished Achievement, the 2021 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher, the 2014 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Prize,
and the 2007 International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors (ISCS) Young Scientist Award. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.