Takashi Matsuoka has been an Emeritus Professor at Tohoku University since April 2019. He has also been an Academic Researcher at the New Industry Creation Hatchery Center (NICHe) of Tohoku University since the same date. He began his career at Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) Photonics Laboratories in 1978, became a Senior Research Engineer in 1989, and transferred to Basic Research Laboratories in 1997. In February 2005, he moved to Tohoku University as a professor in the Division of Physics of Electronic Materials at the Institute for Materials Research (IMR). He retired from this position in March 2019 due to age regulations of Japanese National Universities.

Title Of Talk : History, current status and future prospects from materials to device applications of nitride semiconductors