Yoshiyuki Amemiya Professor of the University of Tokyo Address: 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan E-mail: amemiya@k.u-tokyo.ac.jp URL: http://x-ray.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Expertise : Yoshiyuki Amemiya completed his PhD at the University of Tokyo in 1979 with work on development of a time-resolved, small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) apparatus for research of muscle contraction. He later moved to the Photon Factory (PF) where he developed the BL-15A experimental station and X-ray gas detectors for SAXS. In 1985, he successfully introduced the Imaging Plate developed for medical diagnosis to the field of synchrotron radiation research by evaluating its performance quantitatively and tailoring its high-quality readout system for use with SR. He stayed for a year (1988-1989) at Brookhaven National Laboratory as a visiting researcher, working on the X-ray Faraday effect with Drs. Peter Siddons, Jerry Hastings, and Michel Hart. After that, he developed a universal X-ray polarimeter for X-ray magnetic/natural dichroism at PF. He also developed a high-sensitivity X-ray area detector by combining a beryllium-windowed X-ray image intensifier with CCD, which has been widely used at PF and SPring-8. He moved to the University of Tokyo as an associated professor in 1996 and became a professor in 1998. He worked on the development of advanced SAXS (including time-resolved SAXS, μSAXS, USAXS, ASAXS, and XPCS) with colleagues at his lab. Since then, he has been collaborating with industrial companies using advanced SAXS. He served as President of the Japanese Society of Synchrotron Radiation Research (2007-2009). He also served as Dean of the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences in the University of Tokyo (2007-2008).