Hirose, Akira

Akira Hirose was born in Nagano, Japan, and received B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Yokohama National University, and Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, all in electrical engineering. After PDF at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, he joined the Plasma Physics Laboratory, University of Saskatchewan, where he is Professor and Director. His main interests have been in plasma waves and instabilities, tokamak physics using STOR-M tokamak, and plasma assisted material synthesis. He authored and co-authored more than 300 refereed journal articles. He is Fellow of APS, IEEE, and Royal Society of Ca...