Conference Chairman

Prof. Friedrich Grimm was born in Stuttgart in 1954. He studied architecture at the University of Stuttgart and at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago in 1980. After having finished his studies in 1981, he worked as an employed architect and later on temporarily joined the scientific staff of the Institute for Building Construction at the University of Stuttgart. During his practice as a freelanced architect, since 1989 he took part in competitions and completed several multifamily houses in southern Germany. Due to a series of books, which he has written in the field of steel construction, edited by Ernst & Sohn in Berlin (2003), and one the subject of one family homes, edited by Callwey in Munich (2006), he was nominated a professor honorary in 2009 by the faculty one, for architecture and urban design at the university of Stuttgart. In 2016, he founded the RES- Institute as a completely independent think tank in the field of renewable energies. Since then he works with passion and endurance on projects matching the RES-Institutes obligation to provide blueprints for a friendly climate on earth. Several patents in the field of concentrated solar thermal systems led him into the field of optics where he invented a wide angel sensor, recording light signals with infinite depth of field in real time. Among his inventions there is also a new achromatic lens focusing light of different wave lengths, even x-rays. His latest invention relates to a quantum mechanical device which, making use of the electronic spin of quantum particles with spin number 1/2, to create a fluid dynamic equilibrium within an electromagnetically enclosed plasma of a fusion reactor, by a regular change of the spin's angular momentum.

Katsuhiro Ajito received his Ph.D. degree in applied chemistry from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1995. He was a Distinguished Technical Member of THz-wave applications at NTT Science and Core Technology Laboratory Group in Atsugi, Japan. He joined NTT Basic Research Laboratories in 1995, where he conducted studies on glutamate in single synapses in the brain using Raman spectroscopy and laser tweezers from 1995 to 2007. His current research interests include terahertz photonics in 6G for ultra-high-speed wireless communication and sensing/imaging capabilities.In 1999, he was awarded the Young Scientist Award for the Presentation of an Excellent Paper from the Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP). From 1995 to 2019, he served as the Executive Director and Chair of the Terahertz Spectroscopy Division of the Spectroscopical Society of Japan (SSJ). He was also the Secretary of the Terahertz Interest Group in the IEEE 802.15 Working Group for wireless personal area networks from 2011 to 2013 and the Chair of the Micro/Nano Electromechanical Systems and Bio/Medical Analyses Area of the International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials in JSAP from 2012 to 2015. Since 2021, he has been working at the Department of Information Technology, Faculty of Technology, International Professional University of Technology in Osaka, serving as the Chair, and has been the Dean since 2022. He is a member of IEEE, JSAP, SSJ, and the American Chemical Society