Prof. Hideo Ohno received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1982. He joined Hokkaido University from 1982 and was a visiting scientist at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center from 1988 to 1990. He was appointed Professor at Tohoku University in 1994 and is President of Tohoku University since 2018.

His main interest has been on spintronics and semiconductor science and technology and made seminal contribution to the field including the first electrical manipulation of magnetism and introduction of today’s de facto standard nonvolatile magnetic memory structure.

He received the IBM Japan Science Award, the IUPAP Magnetism Prize, the Japan Academy Prize, the Tohoku University Presidential Prize for Research Excellence, the 2005 Agilent Technologies Europhysics Prize, the IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer for 2009, the Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate, the JSAP Outstanding Achievement Award, the IEEE David Sarnoff Award, the JSAP Compound Semiconductor Electronics Achievement Award, the Leo Esaki Prize, DPS Paper Award, the C&C Prize, the MEXT Commendation for Science and Technology, the ISCS Welker Award and JSAP Paper Award. He is an honorary professor of the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2006, a fellow of the Institute of Physics, the Japan Society of Applied Physics, the American Physical Society, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.