Tatsuo Togawa
FF, Waseda University, Japan

Tatsuo Togawa was born in Tokyo in 1937, graduated from Waseda University, Department of Applied Physics in 1960, and received Ph.D. in applied physics from University of Tokyo in 1965. He had been a professor of Department of Biomedical Instrumentation, Institute of Biomaterials and Bioengineering, Tokyo Medical and Dental University from 1972 to 2003 including a period of 1978-1979 being a Visiting Research Fellow, USC School of Medicine. In these periods of over 30 years, he had been involved in studies of biomedical sensors and instrumentations, physiological measurements, physiological models, artificial organs, and health care systems. He wrote more than 100 original papers and wrote monographs and handbooks including Togawa T, Tamura T, Togawa T, Biomedical Transducers and Instruments, CRC Press, 1997. Then he served as a professor in Waseda University, School of Human Sciences until 2008. During this period, he attempted to view human nature from bioengineering and evolutionary standpoint, and wrote three monographs in this topic. Then, he has been a guest research fellow, Advanced Research Center for Human Sciences, Waseda University. Togawa T, Tamura T, Togawa T, Biomedical Sensors and Instruments Second edition, CRC Press was published in 2011. He has been a fellow of the Institute of Physics, UK, a senior member of IEEE EMBS, and a member of Japanese Society for Medical and biological Engineering, Japan Society of Clinical Monitoring, Medical Instrument Society of Japan, Society of Life Support Technology, Society of Control and Instrumentation Engineering, Japanese Heart Rhythm Society, and Society for Science on Form Japan. He served as associate editor of IEEE Transaction of Biomedical Engineering, and Medical Engineering and Physics, and editorial board member of Physiological Measurement. He received Doctor Honoris Causa from Linkoping University, Sweden, and Medal IBIB PAN from Nalecz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Plosh Academy of Sciences, and has been a Foreign Member of Polish Academy of Sciences.