Presentation title: Fundamental principles for alloy design of surface hardened steels by nitriding

Tadashi Furuhara is a professor at the Institute for Materials Research (IMR), Tohoku University, Japan. He obtained Bachelor and Master degrees at Kyoto University, Japan and a PhD at Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A. He joined the faculty of engineering, Kyoto University in 1989 as a research associate and later became an associate professor. He joined Tohoku University as a professor at IMR in 2005. He served as the 22nd director of IMR between 2020 and 2023.
 
His research activity covers a broad area in physical metallurgy of steels and non-ferrous alloys, such as phase transformations and precipitation, deformation and recrystallization, microstructure control by thermo-mechanical and thermo-chemical processing.  

He also actively contributes to various academic societies in metallurgy field, Japan Institute of Metals and Materials (JIMM), Iron and Steel Institute of Japan (ISIJ), Japan Society for Heat Treatment (JSHT) and the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS). He was a past Vice President of JIMM and currently the President of ISIJ (until April, 2024) . He has been an active member in the Phase Transformation Committee and the Steel Committee of TMS, and currently an editor of Acta and Scripta Materialia.