Professor Yoshihito Osada is Emeritus Professor at Hokkaido University and Senior Visiting scientist at Riken, Japan. Prof. Osada obtained his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Waseda University, Japan and PhD from Moscow State University, Russia under the supervision of Prof. V. A. Kabanov. He was appointed as professor at Ibaraki University, and later on at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, where he served as a Dean of Graduate School of Science, and as Vice President of Hokkaido University. He was also a Deputy Director of RIKEN Advanced Science Institute.
Professor Osada is one of the pioneers in the field of polymer gels and the author of the “double networks” gels concept which provides polymeric gels with excellent mechanical performances and extremely low friction. His current interests focus on gels with “emergent” muscle functions, nano-patterning of the gel and electro-conductive gels. Prof. Osada published more than 300 referred original papers, many monographs, reviews and books. He is an associated member of Japan Academy of Sciences, and Fellow of The Chemical Society of Japan, Honorary Doctor of Polytechnic University of Caltagena, Spain and Visiting Professor of various universities. He is the winner of several awards from The Chemical Society of Japan, The Society of Polymer Science, Japan and others. He played important roles for the science community as a vice-president of The Society of Polymer Science, Japan and as a various committee members of the government including WPI and PREST programs.