The guest at the new edition of the Interdisciplinary Scientific Seminar organised at WUST will be Professor Masami Okamoto from Toyota Technological Institute in Nagoya, who will deliver a lecture for the general public entitled "A Fecund Imagination". The meeting will be held on March 20, at 2 pm.

The guest at the new edition of the Interdisciplinary Scientific Seminar organised at WUST will be Professor Masami Okamoto from Toyota Technological Institute in Nagoya, who will deliver a lecture for the general public entitled "A Fecund Imagination". The meeting will be held on March 20, at 2 pm.

The Interdisciplinary Scientific Seminar was launched in late 2017. The initiative is a series catering to a wide audience - students, doctoral students, academics, and all those interested in deepening their knowledge in the field of exact sciences. At Wrocław University of Science and Technology, we regularly play host to experts in various fields keen to share their knowledge and research results.

In November, the latest achievements of contemporary bioengineering were presented by Professor Anthony Guiseppi-Elie from the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering at TAMU (Texas A&M University).

On February 1, the attendees listened to Professor Jan Biliszczuk from the Faculty of Civil Engineering of WUST, a prominent designer of Poland’s largest bridges and author of innovative solutions in this field. Professor Biliszczuk talked about the history of bridge construction and the latest global trends in this area.

The meeting starts at 2 pm at the Congress Centre of Wrocław University of Science and Technology, building D-20 ( Janiszewskiego St. 8).

Prof. Masami Okamoto

Professor Okamoto received a Ph.D. in 1994 from Tokyo Institute of Technology under the supervision of Professor Takashi Inoue. Following post-doctoral stay in National Institute of Advanced Industrial Sci. & Tech., Kyushu, he joined the faculty at Toyota Technological Institute. His recent research interests include cell-based biocomposites, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, cancer metastasis, cancer stem cells, and epithelial to mesenchymal transition. His publication consists of 150 peer-reviewed publications (h = 44, > 14,500 citations, Oct. 2017). He was the visiting professor, Politecnico di Torino 2011-2012, the recipient of CERI Award 2014 and is the editorial board of more than 10 journals. From 2016 he has been one of the candidates of Novel Prize in Chemistry. He is a vice president of The Society of Rubber Science and Technology, Japan.

Awards:

• Thomson Scientific Research Fronts Award 2004 for Hierarchical Structure Control for High Functional Materials in Bio-polymer-based Nano-composites from Thomson Scientific, USA,
• Polymer Processing Society Morand Lambla Award 2005 for Structure development and Processing of Polymeric Nano-composites from Polymer Processing Society, USA,
• Polymer Processing Society Best Paper Award 2009 for Intercalated Polyethylene Ionomer-based Nano-Composites: Nanostructure control and foam processing from Polymer Processing Society, USA,
• PFAM XVIII BEST PEPAR Award 2009 for PLA-based polymeric nanocelllar formation via super critical CO2 from the Society of Processing and Fabrication of Advanced Materials,
• Royal Society Joint Project Award 2009 for PLA-based tissue engineering scaffolds via selective laser sintering rapid manufacturing from Royal Society,
• ISAEM BEST PEPAR Award 2012 for Nanostructure and adsorption behavior of natural/synthetic allophones from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science,
• ISAEM BEST PEPAR Award 2012 for Fabrication of Polylactide based biodegradable thermoset scaffolds for tissue engineering applications from Japan 2 Society for the Promotion of Science,
• CERI Award 2014 for Effect of adding Polysilane on Heat Fusion Properties of PP from The Society of Rubber Science and Technology, Japan,
• Best Paper Award 2014 for Nanocomposite composed of Natural Rubber Latex and Osteoblast-like MC3T3-E1 Cell from The Society of Rubber Science and Technology, Japan,
• Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing Polymer from Elsevier, The Netherlands (2015),
• Sentinels of Science Awards from Publons (2016),
  
• Publons Peer Review Awards 2017, as one of the top 1 percent of peer reviewers in Materials Science from Publons (2017),
  
• Publons Peer Review Awards 2017, as one of the top 1 percent of peer reviewers in Chemistry from Publons (2017).