Guido Langouche Editor

Yutaka Yoshida is a professor of Materials and Bioscience at Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology, Japan. He received his doctoral degree from Osaka University in 1983. After serving as Guest Scientist in the group led by Professor Gero Vogl at the Hahn-Meitner Institute, Berlin, and as Research Assistant at the Institute of Solid State Physics, Universität Wien, he was appointed to associate professor at Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology in 1991, and promoted to his current position in 2004. Since 1993 he has held a position as Guest Scientist at the Japanese scientific research institute, RIKEN.

Guido Langouche is Emeritus Professor of Nuclear Solid-State Physics at the University of Leuven. He received his PhD and habilitation in Physics from K. U. Leuven in 1973 and 1986, respectively. After carrying out postdoctoral research at K. U. Leuven, the University of Groningen and Stanford University, he was appointed to assistant professor in 1986, associate professor in 1989, and full professor in 1991. He has held positions as Guest Professor at Osaka University, the University of Lyon, and the University of Kinshasa. He has served in various positions throughout his career, such as Vice-Rector of K. U. Leuven, Chairman of the Coimbra Group, Vice-president of the Accreditation Organization of the Netherlands and Flanders (NAVO), Secretary General of the International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE). Furthermore, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Hyperfine Interaction Journal.