Plenary Lecturers

Prof. Kazue Kurihara (Tohoku University, Japan -A.E. Alexander Lecturer)

Professor Kazue Kurihara assumed the first female professor and Principal Investigator of WPI-AIMR on April 1, 2010 from Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University. She belongs to Interface PhysChem Laboratory of Soft Materials Thrust. In PI Kurihara group, they have been exploring the research field of surface forces to develop this technique as a unique tool in material science. Their researches concern interactions between biological molecules, polyelectrolytes, confined liquids, as well as novel instrumentation.

Prof. Helmuth Mohwald (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany - RACI Divisional Plenary Lecturer)

Helmuth Möhwald received his diploma in physics (1971) and Phd (1974) from Univ. Gottingen (Germany). He spent nearly 5 years in industry at IBM San Jose (1974/75) and Domier-Systems (1975-81), in between getting a habilitation at Univ. Ulm (1975-78). After professorships in biophysiu (TU Munich, 1981-1987) and physical chemistry (Univ. Mainz 1987-93) he became founding director of the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, Germany. Among his recent awards are the lectureship award of the Japanese Chemical Society, the Overbeak medal of the European Colloid adn Interface Society, the Wolfgang-Ostwald award of the German Kolloidgesellschaft, the Gay-Lussac-award from the French ministry of science and technology and a honorary doctorate of Univ. Montpellier. He has more than 780 publications which are cited more than 27,000 times. His main interests are molecular interface and films, capsules and controlled release, membrane biophysics and supramolecular interactions.

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