Professor Seiichi Kawahara
Department of Materials Science and Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan
Professor Seiichi Kawahara received his Ph.D. from Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technolog in 1992. His research fields are Rubber, Elastomer, Natural Rubber, Rheology, NMR, Characterization, Mechanical Properties, Ion Conductivity, Nano-phase separated structure.
An expert on natural rubber science and technology, Associate Professor Seiichi Kawahara has spent the last two decades investigating a relationship between structure and properties of natural rubber. He also has a strong interest in the control of hierarchical structure of rubbery materials. After receiving his doctorate in Engineering from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in 1992, Kawahara began his career as an assistant professor at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, where he made collaborative research on natural rubber with Dr. Yasuyuki Tanaka. He joined rubber research group of Dr. Alan Gent and Dr. Gray Hamed at Akron University in 1996-1997 as a visiting scientist. Currently, he is an associate professor at Nagaoka University of Technology. Kawahara has served on advisory boards for Polymers for Advanced Technology and Journal of Rubber Research. He received the Science and Technology Award in 2015 from the Society of Rubber Science and Technology, Japan, the Sparks-Thomas Award in 2014 from the ACS Rubber Division, USA, the SPSJ Wiley Award in 2011 from the Society of Polymer Science, Japan, the SRJ Research Award in 2004 from the Society of Rheology, Japan.