Dr. Manuel E. Brito is a native of Venezuela who has been continuously residing in Japan since 1982. He joined the Materials Science and Engineering Program at Guangdong Technion Israel Institute of Technology in August 2022. Previously, and from May 2019, Manuel was professor at College of Nano Science and Technology (CNST), Soochow University and, concurrently, professor at the Functional Nano & Soft Materials Laboratory (FUNSOM), People's Republic of China. He received an Eng. D. degree from Nagaoka University of Technology in 1989. After post-doctoral research in National Institute for Inorganic Materials (presently National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)), he served during 21 years at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) where he rose through the tenured ranks from research official (civil servant) to chief research scientist. In AIST he was mainly associated to national projects on structural ceramics and solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). Although he is well known for his work on the development of silicon nitride structural ceramics, the last 15 years his research focused on microstructural characterization of dissimilar material interfaces in solid oxide cells.). Upon early retirement from AIST, in April 2013, he moved back to Academia as professor in the Clean Energy Research Center at University of Yamanashi (Japan). He has more than 180 peer reviewed publications, 70+ peer reviewed proceedings, and 16 international patents on diverse topics of materials science, materials development and materials characterization.

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(Excerpt from Research Statement) 

Over the years, my research work in Materials Science has been sustained by: i) accurate identification of interfacial phenomena, ii) laboratory-scale reproduction (modeling) of the interfacial phenomena, and iii) multidisciplinary collaboration to accurately interpret experimental evidence conducive to the understanding of underlying mechanisms.

(Excerpt from Teaching Statement) 

I firmly believe that research and teaching constitute two important and inseparable aspects of the work of a scientist.  It is only when we, scientists, are able to share with the younger generation our ideas and knowledge, and instill in them the interest and the passion that fuels the scientific work, that we can say we are contributing to the advancement of science and humankind.