Passion for technology, Japan and perfection:
working with Japan since 1984, and in Tokyo since 1991.
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American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ), Tokyo:
"The beauty of Japan's Galapagos Effect - and how to go beyond"
Speaker: Gerhard Fasol, in Tokyo Westin Hotel, July 12, 2010, 12:00-14:00
Embassy of Sweden (Tokyo):
"The beauty of Japan's Galapagos effect - and how to go beyond"
Speaker: Gerhard Fasol, in Tokyo, May 19, 2010, 18:30
NIST, Washington DC:
"Will cash become obsolete? Next-next generation electronic and mobile payments in Japan"
Speaker: Gerhard Fasol, in Washington (DC), April 21, 2010,
NIST, Washington DC:
"Understanding Ludwig Boltzmann"
Speaker: Gerhard Fasol, in Washington (DC), April 21, 2010,
MIT Enterprise Forum:
"Next generation Electronic Payments Solutions"
Speaker: Gerhard Fasol, in Boston (MA), April 19, 2010,
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Gerhard Fasol - Profile
Born:
Vienna (Austria, EU)
Languages:
German, English, French, a little Swedish, and Japanese (written, spoken, read, since 1984)
Education:
Cambridge University, UK (Trinity College): PhD in Physics (Thesis: Time resolved luminescence of amorphous semiconductors)
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany: Diplom-Physiker (Thesis: Superconductivity of Vandium3Silicon under high pressures)
Since 1996: Eurotechnology Japan KK, Founder and CEO
Eurotechnology Japan KK is a technology focused business development, strategy and M&A advisory + implementation firm in Tokyo / Japan.
Customers include large and small American, European and Japanese corporations, investment funds, Government agencies (European Union, Government of Finland's TEKES, Government of Japan's JRDC) and about 10 Embassies in Tokyo.
Services for corporate customers: M&A, strategy, sales development, partnerships, and execution for Japan market entry and business expansion in Japan (for EU, American, Chinese corporations)
Globalization, market entry, strategy and business development, and implementation to Europe (for Japanese corporations)
Customer specific market research and strategy development
Overview market research reports for download
Having worked since 1984 with Japan's high-technology sector, Fasol is frequently requested to brief VIPs about Japan's technology sector. Fasol has briefed the President of Germany, Horst Koehler, US Senator Jeff Bingaman (at that time Chairman of the Defence Committee and the Technology Committee of the US Senate), former President of the European Parliament and French Vice-Minister of Industry Mme Nicole Fontaine, the Technology Committee of the German Parliament (Bundestag), the top management team (CEO, CFO, CTO, Head of Strategy ...) of telecom operator TeliaSonera and many others.
Fasol is regular commentator on CNBC about financial results and trends of Japan's, Korean and Chinese major technology companies including Nintendo, SONY, Samsung, Sanyo, and industry sectors including telecommunications, electronics and flat panel displays.
(Some of the most recent interviews can be seen as video clips on CNBC's internet site).
2000-2001: Japanese External Trade Organization (JETRO, the International Trade organization of Japan's industry and economics ministry METI)
Member of the advisory Board of Chairman Hatakeyama: advise on international trade issues, technology
1992 - 1996: Japan Research Development Corporation (today: Japan Science and Technology Agency): Sakigake Research project
Principal investigator of a research project on Spin-Electronics (Elite Japanese Government research project in the Sakigake (= Pioneer) program)
Fasol's Sakigake project work has been assessed by a joint commission of the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the US Deparment of Commerce, visiting Japan to evaluate the ERATO and PRESTO programs.
(Read the evaluation of Fasol's project here)
1995: Nikkei SCIENCE (Japanese Version of Scientific American) and Japanese Computer Graphics Society "Computer Visualization Contest": Second Prize
Visualization of electron wave motion through electronic nanostructure devices by numerically solving the time-dependent Schrödinger Equation (watch animations of an electron wave propagating through a nano-crystal)
1993-1996 Tokyo University, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Institute of Industrial Science: Associate Professor
Research group leader on new electron devices, spin-electronics. Fasol was one of the first researchers to research spin-electronics devices in Japan, submitted several patent applications on inventions for spin-electronics devices.
Main research results: invented new method to grow ultra-thin (4 nano-meter) metallic and magnetic wires, developed numeric methods to solve Schrödinger Equation in strong magnetic fields for simulation and visualization of electron wave motion in nano devices
July - Sept 1989 and 1991: Tokyo University, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), Associate Professor of the NTT Endowed Chair for Telecommunications
Starting research on spin-electronic devices as one of the first researchers in this field in Japan
Research on spin-electronic devices, and numerical simulation work
1990-1991: Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory, Laboratory manager and Chief Scientist
Research on nano electronic devices, planning and research strategy during the start-up phase of the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory
1986 - 1990: Cambridge University, UK, Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory: University Lecturer (with tenure)
Research: Raman spectroscopic laboratory with state of the art spectroscopic equipment, shared femto-second laboratory, numerical research on Gallium-Arsenide and Silicon-Germanium superlattice devices
Major research results: invented and developed methods to determine band structure from luminescence of electrons cascading with phone emission in ultra-fast femto second processes, characterization methods for single layer Ge-Si superlattices from phonon Raman spectroscopy, research on coupled plasmon oscillations in superlattices, investigations of single-electron excitations in coupled electron layers in superlattice devices
Research cooperation with British Telecom Laboratories, France Telecom Research, NTT research laboratories
Research funding as principal investigator for a number of British Government grants, grant by the British Council for cooperation with Spain, by the French Foreign Ministry for research cooperation with France, and many other research projects
Teaching: teaching responsibilities of Cambridge University Lecturer. 5 PhD students and several Post-Doctoral students, University lectures, post graduate lectures, practical classes, and University Examinations (undergraduate and PhD)
1988: promoted to Tenure at Cambridge University
1986 - 1990: Trinity College, Cambridge: Research Fellow, Assistant Lecturer and Director of Studies in Natural Sciences
Responsible for 24 undergraduate students as Director of Studies
Education: Trinity College supervisions
May 1990: Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris: Invited Professor
in addition: research award by the French Foreign Ministry to invite three French researchers to Fasol's laboratory at Cambridge University
June-September 1987, June-September 1988: Visiting researcher at RIKEN, Japan, and Tokyo University, Dept of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
build research cooperation between Fasol's lab at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, and Japanese research groups
September 1984: first visit to Japan to help build research cooperation with NTT fundamental research laboratories
Purpose: help build research cooperation between Max-Planck-Institut in Stuttgart and NTT Fundamental Research Labs
1982-1986: Max-Planck-Institut for Solid State Research (Stuttgart, Germany): Staff Research Scientist
Research on fundamental electronic and phonen properties of semiconductor superlattices using different methods of optical spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy. Major research results: characterization of coupled plasmon oscillations in superlattice devices, invented and developed methods to determine band structure information from hot electron spectroscopy
1981 - 1985: Trinity College, University of Cambridge: Research fellow
Semiconductor research
1982: Cambridge University, Trinity College: PhD in Physics
Research Thesis: time resolved spectroscopy of amorphous semiconductors (amorphous phosphorus, amorphous germanium). Main results: discovered triplet states in amorphous phosphorus, identified defect luminescense with widely different decay times, developed and built state-of-the-art equipment to measure time-resolved luminescence spectroscopy with pico-second time resolution
1978: Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany): Diplom Thesis in Physics (awarded the Prize for the best thesis of the year by the President (Rektor) of the Ruhr-University
Diplom thesis: superconductivity of Vanadium 3 Silicon under high pressure
Developed and built equipment for electrical measurements under record high hydrostatic pressures, conducted measurements, discovered new phase transformation