{"id":417,"date":"2022-11-10T00:14:54","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T15:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tsuganolab.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/?page_id=417"},"modified":"2026-09-21T23:51:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T14:51:56","slug":"profile","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tsuganolab.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns vk-cols--media vk_block-margin-0--margin-bottom is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-id=\"237\" src=\"https:\/\/tsuganolab.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/001-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tsuganolab.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/001-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tsuganolab.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/001-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tsuganolab.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/001-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/tsuganolab.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/001-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tsuganolab.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/001.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:90%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-vk-heading-plain vk_block-margin-0--margin-bottom has-huge-font-size\" style=\"line-height:1.4\">Prof. Tomoko Sugano<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vk-color-primary-color has-text-color has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professor, Institute of Industrial Science (IIS), The University of Tokyo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">  2021.9\uff5e Deputy Director General, Division of University Corporate Relations\u3000(DUCR),<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2024.4- 2026.3\u3000Special Advise to the President<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2024.4- 2025.3\u3000Director, Institute of Open Innovation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2022.4- 2024.3 \u3000Director, Strategic Public Relations Planning Office<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Patent Attorney<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After joining the Japan Patent Office (JPO), she was engaged in patent examination and appeal examination in a wide range of technical fields, including semiconductor processes and devices, food, microorganisms, and cosmetics. In 2021, she was appointed as a director of the division of alloys and chemical batteries like lithium-ion batteries and fuel batteries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Until she left the JPO in 2021, she was the first Director of the Public Relations Office at the JPO, where she established a new public relations strategy and system. She also served as the Director of Patent Strategy Planning, where she tried to enlighten major corporate executives on the importance of intellectual property management. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Currently, she is the Deputy Director General of the division of University Corporate Relations in the University of Tokyo and oversees the University of Tokyo&#8217;s industry-university collaboration activities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She is a licensed patent attorney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"ticss-10552ae6 has-regular-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The list of research publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"ticss-65bde294\">T. Sugano, \u201cTrends of patent applications in high technology field.\u201d,<br>Law and computers,27,3, (2009).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"ticss-2188e1be\">K. Nakayama, T. Sugano, K. Ohmori, A.W. Signor, and J. H. Weaver,<br>\u201cChemical fingerprinting at the atomic level with scanning tunneling<br>spectroscopy.\u201d, Surface Science, 600, 716 (2006).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"ticss-d219cf31\">K. Nakayama, M. Alemarny, T. Sugano, et al., \u201cElectronic structure of Si<br>(011)-c (4\u00d72) analyzed by scanning tunneling spectroscopy and ab initio<br>simulations.\u201d, Physical Review B 73, 035330 (2006).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"ticss-d130c0de\">T. Sugano, N. Ohashi, T. Tsurumi, and O. Fukunaga, \u201cPressure and<br>temperature region of diamond formation in systems graphite and Fe<br>containing alloy\u201d, Diamond and Related Materials 5, 29 (1996).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"ticss-50e90453\">O. Fukunaga, M. Iizuka and T. Sugano:<br>Formation Pressure Temperature Region of Diamond Using Alloy Solvent Catalyst.<br>AIP Conference Proceedings 309, (1994), p.531<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Tomoko Sugano Professor, Institute of Industrial Science (IIS), The University of Tokyo 2021.9\uff5e Deputy Director General, Division of University Corporate Relations\u3000(DUCR), 2024.4- 2026.3\u3000Special Advise to the President 2024.4- 2025.3\u3000Director, Institute of Open Innovation 2022.4- 2024.3 \u3000Director, Strategic Public Relations Planning Office Patent Attorney After joining the Japan Patent Office (JPO), she was engaged in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-en.php","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/tsuganolab.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/?page_id=7","sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","vkExUnit_sitemap":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","_exclude_from_list_pages":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","vkExUnit_childPageIndex":"","vkExUnit_pageList_ancestor":"","vkExUnit_contact_enable":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-417","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","en-US"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tsuganolab.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tsuganolab.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tsuganolab.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tsuganolab.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tsuganolab.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/tsuganolab.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/tsuganolab.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/417\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tsuganolab.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}