Michihiro Ohta

I received his Ph.D. from the Kyushu Institute of Technology in 2002. I was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and the Muroran Institute of Technology before joining National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in 2006. I have been a senior researcher at AIST since 2013. I was a visiting scholar at the Argonne National Laboratory from 2011 to 2012. I was also a technical adviser at the startup company Mottainai Energy, founded in 2016. My research focuses on the development of thermoelectric materials and divices.