Presentation title: Relationship between structures and thermophysical and thermochemical properties on silicate melts containing fluoride

Prof. Miyuki Hayashi is a full professor of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology. She graduated from Dept. Metall. Eng. Tokyo Inst. Tech. in 1992 and obtained her PhD at the same department in 1997. Her PhD thesis title is “Magnetic and optical properties of steelmaking slags from the perspective of coordination structures of iron ions”. She worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Dept. Physics, Trinity College, Dublin for one year, and then as an assistant professor at Tokyo Tech for four years. To expand her academic field, she moved to Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden and worked with Prof. Seetharaman for eighteen months, where she worked on thermophysical properties of mold flux, coke and Fe, Ti and Ni-based super alloys. She became an associate professor at Tokyo Tech in 2004 and a professor at the same in 2021. She is the first (and only at the moment) female professor in the field of iron and steelmaking process in Japan although Japan has over 120-year history in modern steelmaking.