Hiroaki TAO − Editorial Board Member
Hiroaki TAO, Deputy Director of Research Institute for Environmental Management
Technology, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), was
born in 1957 in Kagawa Prefecture. He received BS (1980), MS (1982), and Ph. D (1986)
degrees from the University of Tokyo. He joined AIST in 1982 and has been working to
develop elemental speciation by using hyphenated methods, such as GC-ICP-MS and LC-ICPMS.
He stayed at the National Research Council of Canada as a visiting scientist (1992). His
current research interests are the development of environmental diagnostic technology for the
simultaneous determination of chemical substances and microorganisms. He enjoys reading
historical books and gardening with his family.
from Analytical Sciences, Volume 23, Number 6, 2007.
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