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（Last updated : 2023-05-10 13:13:20）

KONISHI Satoshi

Department / Course College of Science and Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering

Title / Position Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of Science and Engineering
2.	Research Organization of Science and Technology SR Center
3.	Research Organization of Science and Technology Robotics Research Center
4.	Research Organization of Science and Technology The Bio Medical Engineering Research Center
5.	Research Organization of Science and Technology Institute of Advanced Research for Sport and Health Science

Academic background
1.	1996/03 Degree Acquisition	│ The University of Tokyo Doctor of Engineering
2.	1993～1996	Doctoral course, Electric Engineering Major │ Graduate School, Division of Engineering │ The University of Tokyo │ Completed
3.	1991～1993	Master's course, Electric Engineering Major │ Graduate School, Division of Engineering │ The University of Tokyo │ Completed
4.	1987～1991	Department of Electronic Engineering │ Faculty of Engineering │ The University of Tokyo │ Graduated

Business career
1.	2020/04 ～	Professor │ │
2.	2019/04 ～ 2022/03	Vice-Dean │ Division of Research, │ Ritsumeikan University
3.	2018/04 ～ 2019/03	Vice-Director │ Research Organization of Science and Technology, │ Ritsumeikan University
4.	2006/04 ～	Professor │ │ Ritsumeikan University
5.	1999/04 ～ 2006/03	Associate Professor │ │ Ritsumeikan University
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Committee and society
1.		Sensors and Actuators A : Physical Editorial Board Member
2.		Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering Editorial Board Member
3.		IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems Editorial Board Member
4.		Microsystems & Nanoengineering, Nature Publishing Group Editorial Board Member
5.		IEEE International Conference of MEMS2007
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Research activities
1.	1991/10/12 ～	The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan
2.		The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
3.		The Japan Society of Applied Physics
4.		JAPAN SOCIETY of COMPUTER AIDED SURGERY
5.		The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Subject of research
1.	Bio hybrid micromachine
2.	Human interface devices and systems
3.	Micro Electro Mechanical Systems
4.	Research on Micro・Nano Mechatoronics
5.	Soft micromachine

Research summary
Micromachine, MEMS and their Biomedical applications His study is devoted to micromachine and MEMS(microelectromechanical systems) covering broad ranges from fundamental to applied fields. His current research focuses on biomedical MEMS, especially multiscale interfaces in BME.

Present specialized field
Nano/Microsystems, Intelligent mechanics/Mechanical systems, Biomedical engineering/Biomaterial science and engineering, Human interface and interaction, Medical systems, Nanobioscience (Keyword：Micromachine, MEMS,LOC, Micro mechactoronics Micro robot)

Books
1.	2006/12	Frontier of Quantitative Analysis of a Single Cell -Toward Construction of Life Surveyor- │ ,pp.188-199 (Co-authored)
2.	2000	Autonomous Distributed System for Cooperative Micromanipuration │ Distributed Manipulation │ ,pp.87-102 (Co-authored)

Papers
1.	2023/05/09	Design improvement of the conversion mechanism from balloon inflation to bending motion for inflatable film actuators │ Microsystems & Nanoengineering │ 9 (55) (Co-authored)
2.	2023/03/16	Rotation and transportation of liquid crystal droplets for visualizing electric properties of microstructured electrodes │ Scientific Reports │ 13 (4369) (Co-authored)
3.	2023/03/07	In Situ Evaluation of Cellular Spheroid Stiffness by Pinching Device Composed of Piezoactuator and Strain Gauge │ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering │ (Co-authored)
4.	2023/02/06	Volume difference in microdroplets in vertical contact control under electrowetting-induced asymmetric boundary condition │ Japanese Journal of Applied Physics │ 62,pp.017003 (Co-authored)
5.	2022/12/09	Directional touch sensing for stiffness singularity search in an object using microfinger with tactile sensor │ Scientific Reports │ 12 (21374) (Co-authored)
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2022/06/01	Pinching device for measuring stiffness of spheroid (Asia-Pacific Conference of Transducers and Micro-Nano Technology 2022)
2.	2022/05/30	Liquid Crysal-Particle Imaging Electrometry for Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (Asia-Pacific Conference of Transducers and Micro-Nano Technology 2022)
3.	2020/07	液体金属液滴の流路内移動操作性の向上
4.	2020/01/19	An Effect of a Needle Electrode for the Ohmic Contact Between an Electrode and Liquid Metal Droplet in Electrical Switching (The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS 2020))
5.	2019/07/02	The Combination of Soft Microfingers and Wearable Interface Device for Haptic Teleoperation Robot System (International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales(MARSS2019))
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Works
1.	2021/11/09	Bionic Micromachines based on Soft Microactuator for Artificial Muscle
2.	2019/07/02	The combination of soft microfingers and wearable interface device for haptic teleoperation robot system (Helsinki, Finland)
3.	2017/07/11	Soft Microactuator for Bio Manipulation (DUT International Convention Center, Dalian)
4.	2017/03/10	Smart Micro-Machines for Biomedical Applications (Kyoto Research Park)
5.	2016/11/08	Biomedical Applications of Micromachines (Clock Tower Centennial Hall, KYOTO)
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Winning science prize
1.	2010/10	IEEE EDS Kansai Chapter of the Year Award/IEEE
2.	2005/11	IEEE MHS2005 Best Paper Award/IEEE

Acquisition patent
1.		共鳴機構および機械電気熱変換機構を用いた反射音・吸収音・透過音制御装置（特許第3751937号）
2.	2000/09/29	マイクロ分析チップ、及びその製造方法（特願2000-298437）