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Journal of Optics: 2018 Reviewer Awards

Reviewer of the Year: Dr Sarang Pendharker, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India

Outstanding reviewers

Dr Alessandro Alberucci, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena, Germany
Dr Adrian Ankiewicz, The Australian National University, Australia
Dr Marc Aßmann, TU Dortmund, Germany
Dr David Bradshaw, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Dr Ziyang Chen, Huaqiao University, China
Dr Weili Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
Dr Chunyi Chen, Changchun University of Science and Technology, China
Dr Linfei Chen, Hangzhou dianzi University, China
Dr Dongmei Deng, South China Normal University, China
Dr Alberto Gatto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Dr Zhiwei Guo, Tongji University, China
Dr Yinghui Guo, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Dr Kyong Kim, Inha University, Republic of Korea
Dr Xiong Li, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Dr Zhengjun Liu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Professor Xiangang Luo, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Institute of Optics and Electronics, China
Dr Zhong Lei Mei, Lanzhou University, China
Dr Akshit Peer, Intel Corporation, United States
Dr Blas Rodriguez-Lara, Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico
Dr Martin Schultze, Technical University Graz, Austria
Professor Dr Tatsuki Tahara, National Institute of Informatics and PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan
Dr Christos Tserkezis, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Dr Ben-Xin Wang, Jiangnan University, China
Dr Jicheng Wang, Jiangnan University, China
Dr Yi Weng, NeoPhotonics, United States
Dr Lu Xu, Applied Materials Inc, United States
Dr Vladislav Yakovlev, Max-Planck-Institut fur Quantenoptik, Germany
Dr Jin Yang, The University of Oklahoma, United States
Professor Xiaodong Yang, Missouri University of Science and Technology, United States
Dr Guanghui Yuan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Professor Han Zhang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Dr Dimitrios Zografopoulos, CNR-IMM, Italy

Journal of Radiological Protection: 2018 Reviewer Awards

Outstanding reviewers

Dr Anja Almén, Lund University, Department of medical radiation physics, Malmö, Sweden
Mr Ryno Botha, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Mr Peter Burgess, Radiation Metrology Ltd, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Dr Keith Faulkner, Keith Faulkner Consulting, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Dr Changran Geng, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
Dr Stephanie Haywood, Public Health England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Professor Dr Sakae Kinase, JAEA – Tokai Research and Development Centre, Japan
Dr Desislava Kostova-Lefterova, National Cardiology Hospital, Bulgaria
Dr Sophia Kottou, University of Athens, Greece
Professor S Mattsson, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
Dr Sümer Şahin, Bahçeşehir University, Turkey
Dr Eleni Samara, Hopital du Valais, Switzerland
Dr Peter Scholz-Kreisel, Johannes Gutenberg Universitat Mainz, Germany
Dr Carlos Ubeda de la Cerda, University of Tarapaca, Arica, Chile
Dr A Wrixon, [Retired], Austria

Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter: 2018 Reviewer Awards

Reviewer of the Year: Dr Arnab Banerjee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States

Arnab Banerjee has obtained Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and is currently a staff scientist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His primary interests are is in the study of magnetic frustration in 2D layered materials.

Outstanding reviewers

Dr Jahanfar Abouie, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), Islamic Republic of Iran
Dr Omar Adjaoud, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany
Dr Lester Barnsley, Forschungszentrum Julich Julich Centre for Neutron Science, Germany
Mr Dhritiman Bhattacharya, Virginia Commonwealth University, United States
Dr Leonid Bolotov, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Ibaraki, Japan
Professor Jesse H. Brewer, University of British Columbia, Canada
Dr Maxim Bykov, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Dr Levan Chotorlishvili, Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Dr Anna Ciechan, Polish Academy of Sciences – Institute of Physics, Poland
Dr Balamurugan Desinghu, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, United States
Dr Yuan Dong, University of Missouri, United States
Dr James Drewitt, University of Bristol, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Dr Marc Dvorak, Aalto University, Finland
Dr Mohammad Ehsani, Semnan University, Islamic Republic of Iran
Dr Daniel Farias, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Dr Christian Flindt, Aalto University, Finland
Dr Jose Garcia, Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Spain
Dr J Garza, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico
Dr John Gibbs, Northern Arizona University, United States
Dr Guiyang Huang, University of Tennessee, United States
Dr Hiroaki Ishizuka, Univ Tokyo, Japan
Dr Janusz Jacak, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland
Mr Błażej Jaworowski, Politechnika Wroclawska Wydzial Podstawowych Problemow Techniki, Poland
Dr Jin-Wu Jiang, Shanghai University, China
Dr Soon-Gil Jung, Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea
Professor Hiroshi Katayama-Yoshida, Osaka University, Japan
Dr Yuki Kawaguchi, Nagoya University, Japan
Professor Adam Kiejna, University of Wroclaw, Poland
Dr Vitaly Kuzkin, Institute for Problems in Mechanical Engineering RAS and Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnical University, Russian Federation
Dr Chi-Cheng Lee, University of Tokyo Institute for Solid State Physics, Japan
Dr Bao-Wen Li, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Professor Fernando Lopez-Aguilar, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Professor Bernd Lorenz, University of Houston, United States
Dr Haijun Lou, Peking University, China
Professor Hartmut Lowen, Heinrich Heine Universitat Dusseldorf, Germany
Dr Giovanni Italo Martone, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
Professor John McGilp, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Dr Daniel Olguin, CINVESTAV – IPN, Mexico
Professor Gleb Oshanin, UPMC Faculte de Physique, France
Dr Joachim Paier, Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany
Mr Jit Sarkar, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
Mr Joelson Silva, Universidade Federal de Uberlandia, Brazil
Professor Dr Björn Sothmann, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Professor Daniel Vanmaekelbergh, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
Professor Dr Andres Vega Hierro, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
Dr Alex Walton, University of Manchester, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Dr Chunlei Yue, Tulane University, United States
Dr Igor Yurkevich, Aston University, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics: 2018 Reviewer Awards

Reviewer of the Year: Dr Ramona Vogt, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States

Outstanding reviewers

Professor Dr Wolfgang Altmannshofer, University of California Santa Cruz, United States
Dr Marcello Baldo, Universita degli Studi di Catania, Italy
Dr Marco Battaglieri, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy
Professor Alessandro Bettini, Universita degli Studi di Padova, Italy
Dr J Bijnens, Lund University, Sweden
Dr Dennis Bonatsos, National Centre for Scientific Research ‘Demokritos’, Greece
Dr Walter Grimus, Universitaet Wien, Austria
Professor Kei Kotake, Fukuoka University, Japan
Dr Jonas Lindert, Durham University, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Dr R Liotta, Albanova University Center – KTH, Sweden
Dr Javier Menendez, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Professor Daniel Phillips, Ohio University, United States
Dr Jorge Portoles, Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC), Spain
Dr Chong Qi, KTH – Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Dr Jan Rak, Jyvaeskylaen Yliopisto, Finland
Dr Tomas Rodriguez, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Dr Vladimir Sauli, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Dr Michal Warda, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics: 2018 Reviewer Awards

Reviewer of the Year: Professor Chih-Liang Wang, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan

Outstanding reviewers

Dr Arash Ahmadivand, Florida International University, United States
Dr Brahim Aissa, MPB Technologies Inc, Canada
Professor Bernardo Almeida, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Dr Firas Alosfur, Kebangsaan University, Malaysia
Mr Bandar Alotaibi, McGill University, Canada
Dr Annisa Aprilia, Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia
Dr Ali Ashkarran, University of Mazandaran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Dr Paul Biplab, Linköping University, Sweden
Dr Leonid Bolotov, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Dr Dmitry Borin, TU Dresden, Germany
Dr Jérôme Borme, INL-International Iberian Nanotechnology Lab, Portugal
Dr Ahmed Boutejdar, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany
Dr Dmytro Bozhko, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Dr Xiaobing Cai, The university of western ontario, Canada
Dr Fernando Cervantes-Alvarez, Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados Unidad Merida, Mexico
Professor Qiang Chen, Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication, China
Professor Xiangying Chen, Hefei University of Technology, China
Dr Artit Chingsungnoen, Mahasarakham University, Thailand
Dr Oksana Chukova, National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Ukraine
Professor Hiroyuki Daido, Institute of Laser Technology, Japan
Professor Chittaranjan Das, Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany
Dr Angela De Bonis, Università della Basilicata, Italy
Dr Luiz Augusto de Oliveira, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Dr Ghasiram Dey, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India
Dr Lanbo Di, Dalian University, China
Dr Chengyuan Dong, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Dr Benito Dorrio, Universidad de Vigo, Spain
Dr Chris Fetzer, Spectrolab, United States
Dr Houqiang Fu, Arizona state university, United States
Dr Fei Gao, Zhejiang University, China
Dr Carlos Garcia-Meca, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Dr Hubert Głowiński, Polska Akademia Nauk Instytut Fizyki Molekularnej, Poland
Dr Yong Guo, Tsinghua University, China
Professor Ahmad Hamdan, Université de Montréal, Canada
Professor Jeon Han, Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea
Professor Jianhua Hao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Dr Jacek Hoffman, Polish Academy of Sciences – Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Poland
Dr Bin Hou, Xidian University, China
Dr Weiguo Hu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Dr Bohr-Ran Huang, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Dr Xianjun Huang, National University of Defence Technology, China
Professor Inchan Hwang, Kwangwoon University, Republic of Korea
Professor Chan Im, Konkuk University, Republic of Korea
Dr Christopher Jeynes, University of Surrey, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Professor Guangbin Ji, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
Dr Indrek Jogi, Tartu University, Estonia
Dr Saumil Joshi, University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States
Dr Woo Seok Kang, Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials, Republic of Korea
Dr Hakan Karaagac, Istanbul Teknik Universitesi, Turkey
Dr Nagendra Kaushik, Kwangwoon University, Republic of Korea
Dr Hyungjin Kim, Seoul National University, United States
Professor Andrey Kozyrev, Russian Academy of Sciences – Institute of High Current Electronics, Russian Federation
Professor Dr Dattatray Late, National Chemical Laboratory, India
Dr Yu Lebedev, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis RAS, Russian Federation
Professor Dr Sang Hun Lee, Seonam University, Republic of Korea
Dr Claire Lefort, XLIM, France
Dr Pingyan Lei, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, United States
Dr Chuanyang Li, Tsinghua University, China
Dr Guijiang Li, Nanjing Tech University, China
Dr Chen-Jui Liang, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
Dr Chenxi Liu, National University of Defense Technology, China
Professor George Naidis, Russian Academy of Science, Russian Federation
Mr Ignas Nevinskas, Fiziniu ir technologijos mokslu centras, Lithuania
Dr Zhaorui Ni, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Dr Anton Nikiforov, Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Dr Akira Oyamada, Kyoto University, Japan
Dr Chenhui Peng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Dr Daniel Pineda, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
Dr Jing Qiu, Chongqing University, China
Dr Ankur Rastogi, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States
Dr Eric Robert, Universite d’Orleans, France
Professor Dr Seung Yoon Ryu, Korea University, Republic of Korea
Dr Abhishek Soni, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India
Dr Anand Kumar Srivastava, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, India
Dr Chuan Beng Tay, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore
Dr Ionut Topala, Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza of Iasi, Romania
Dr Bin Wang, National Institutes of Health, United States
Dr Haining Wang, Cornell University, United States
Professor Dr Lijun Wang, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
Dr Caroline Winters, Sandia National Laboratories, United States
Dr Jiawen Xu, University of Connecticut, United States
Dr He-Lin Yang, Central China Normal University, China
Dr Guang Yang, Siemens Industry Inc, United States
Dr Heonjun Yoon, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
Dr Liang Yu, Zhejiang University, China
Dr Jiangcong Zhou, Longyan University, China

Journal of Physics Communications: 2018 Reviewer Awards

Outstanding reviewers

Dr David Bermudez, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
Dr Chia-Chun Chou, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Dr Hitender Kumar, Kurukshetra University, India
Dr Choongyeop Lee, Korea Aerospace University, Republic of Korea
Dr Jiang Liu, Nanchang University, China
Professor Dr Milorad Milosevic, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
Dr Mirko Salewski, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Dr Aly Seadawy, Beni-Suef University, Egypt
Dr Mohsen Sheikholeslami, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Islamic Republic of Iran
Dr Jian Wu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics: 2018 Reviewer Awards

Reviewer of the Year: Dr Kalyan Chakrabarti, Scottish Church College, India

“The standards of J. Phys. B have been set by many exceptional papers by exceptional
scientists over the years. As a reviewer I strive to maintain the high standards of the journal.
I am humbled and honoured having been chosen as Reviewer of the Year.”

Outstanding reviewers

Professor Torkild Andersen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Dr Raul Barrachina, Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica – Centro Atomico Bariloche, Argentina
Dr James Bennett, The University of Queensland, Australia
Professor Slobodan Bosanac, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Croatia
Professor Igor Bray, Curtin University, Australia
Professor Thomas Busch, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan
Dr Rajat Chaudhuri, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, India
Dr Marcelo Ciappina, ELI-Beamlines and Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Professor Aurelien Dantan, Aarhus University, Denmark
Dr Alireza Dehghani, Payame Noor University, Islamic Republic of Iran
Dr Luis Fernandez-Menchero, Queen’s University Belfast School of Mathematics and Physics, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Dr Dhanoj Gupta, National Fusion Research Institute, Republic of Korea
Professor Ifan Hughes, Durham University, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Dr Chen Ji, Huazhong Normal University, China
Mr Oliver Marty, Universitaet Ulm, Germany
Dr Bogdan Vasile Mihalcea, National Institute for Laser Plasma and Radiation Physics, Romania
Dr Hongcheng Ni, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
Dr Jonas Persson, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Dr Yu Popov, M V Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russian Federation
Professor Jagos Puric, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Dr Chunlei Qu, JILA, University of Colorado – Boulder, United States
Dr Victor Romero-Rochin, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico – Mexico City, Mexico
Dr Bijaya Sahoo, Physical Research Laboratory, India
Dr Jyothi Saraladevi, Duke University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, United States
Professor Xiaofeng Shi, Xidian University, China
Dr Nicolas Sisourat, Sorbonne Universites, France
Professor Keyu Xia, Nanjing University, China
Dr Wei Xiong, Department of Mathematics and Physics, Hefei University, China
Dr Shuzhen Ye, Shell Global Solutions USA Inc, United States
Dr Sergey Zaytsev, Pacific National University, Russian Federation
Professor Yanpeng Zhang, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
Mr Chuanzhou Zhu, Rice University, United States

Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical: 2018 Reviewer Awards

Reviewer of the Year: Dr Daniel Stilck França, QMATH, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Daniel Stilck França is a Brazilian mathematical physicist working on quantum information theory. He is specially interested in quantum channels and their applications. He recently moved to Copenhagen to start a postdoc after finishing his PhD at Technical University of Munich.

Outstanding reviewers

Dr Paulo Assis, Universidade Federal de Catalão, Brazil
Dr Quentin Berger, LPMA, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Dr Holger Cartarius, Universitat Stuttgart, Germany
Dr Michele Dall’Arno, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Professor Spiros Evangelou, The University of Ioannina, Greece
Professor Yan Fyodorov, King’s College London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Professor Giuseppe Gaeta, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Professor Ferdinando Gliozzi, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy
Dr Denis Grebenkov, CNRS – Ecole Polytechnique, France
Dr Giorgio Gubbiotti, Universita degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy
Dr Jukka Kiukas, Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Dr George Pogosyan, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Federation
Professor Antonio Politi, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Professor Mario Rasetti, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Professor Gunter Schuetz, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
Dr Igor Smolyarenko, Brunel University, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Dr Corneliu Sochichiu, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea
Dr Pavel Stránský, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Dr Berihu Teklu, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Dr Lin Zhang, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China

Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express: 2018 Reviewer Awards

Outstanding Reviewers

Dr Nabraj Bhattarai, Ames Laboratory, United States
Mrs Anuja Bokare, San Jose State University, United States
Dr Bozana Colovic, Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Serbia
Dr Carlos De Wagter, University Hospital – Gent, Belgium
Dr Yi Du, Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute, China
Dr Dimitris Emfietzoglou, The University of Ioannina, Greece
Dr Marlene Gilles, LaTIM-INSERM 1101, France
Dr Darrick Heyd, Ryerson University, Canada
Dr Rehan Khan, Institute of Nano Science and Technology, India
Dr Ioanna Kyriakou, Ioannina University, Greece
Dr Hui Liu, Yale University, United States
Dr Hao Ma, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Dr Michael Mucalo, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Dr Alberto Sensini, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Italy
Professor Glyn Shentall, Royal Preston Hospital, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Dr Tanveer Tabish, University of Exeter, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Dr George Tan, Texas Tech University, United States
Dr Panagiotis Tsiamas, Henry Ford Health System, United States
Dr Zachary Vesoulis, Washington University in Saint Louis School of Medicine, United States
Dr Xiao Wang, BioMEMS Resource Center, Harvard Medical School, United States
Dr Navid Zeraatkar, University of Massachusetts Medical School, United States
Dr Jianhua Zhao, B C Cancer Research Centre, Canada

Nonlinearity: 2018 Reviewer Awards

Outstanding reviewers

Professor Ugo Bessi, Universita degli Studi di Roma Tre, Italy
Dr X Blanc, Université Paris Diderot, France
Dr Mattia Cafasso, LAREMA – Universite’ D’Angers, France
Miss Xinru Cao, Donghua University – Songjiang Campus, China
Professor Davide Ferrario, Universita degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy
Dr Giovany Figueiredo, UFPA, Brazil
Dr Stefano Galatolo, Universita di Pisa, Italy
Dr Léo Girardin, Université Paris-Sud Paris-Saclay, France
Dr Marshall Hampton, University of Minnesota, United States
Professor Tatsuo Iguchi, Keio University, Japan
Dr Marc Josien, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, France
Dr Irena Lasiecka, University of Memphis, United States
Dr Jonatan Lenells, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Dr Cristina Lizana, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil
Professor Ming Mei, Champlain College St.-Lambert, Canada
Dr Hil Meijer, University of Twente, Netherlands
Professor Pavel Naumkin, UNAM Campus Morelia, Mexico
Dr Yuan Pei, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, United States
Professor Tomas Persson, Lund University, Sweden
Dr Nikola Popovic, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Dr Rafael Potrie, Universidad de la Republica Uruguay, Uruguay
Professor Patrizia Pucci, Universita’ di Perugia, Italy
Dr Jens Rademacher, University of Bremen, Germany
Professor Julio Rossi, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dr David Simpson, Massey University, New Zealand
Professor Tatsuya Watanabe, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan