Koji Mizuno received the B. Eng., M. Eng., and D. Eng. degrees in electronic engineering from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in 1963, 1965, and 1968, respectively.
In 1968, he joined the Department of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tohoku University as Research Associate. He was appointed Associate Professor at Research Institute of Electrical Communication (RIEC), Tohoku University in 1972, and Professor of Electron Devices there in1984. In March 2004 he was retired from the Professor to become Emeritus Professor of Tohoku University and from April 2004 he has been Research Professor of Tohoku University, continuing research and development of millimeter and THz wave imaging technologies at the same Institute, RIEC.
From 1990 to 1998 he was a team leader of the Photodynamics Research Center, the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Sendai, to run a laboratory for submillimeter wave research there as well as a laboratory in Tohoku University. He was appointed Director of laboratory for Electronic Intelligent Systems of RIEC from 1996 to 2000 and from 2001 for 3 years he was elected as a member of the Council of Tohoku University.
He has been interested in the millimeter and submillimeter (THz) wave region of the electromagnetic wave spectrum, and has been developing technologies of detection, generation and their applications in the region.
Dr. Mizuno spent a one-year sabbatical leave at Queen Mary College, University of London under the sponsorship of SRC (Science Research Council, United Kingdom) in 1973, and in 1990 spent a six-month sabbatical leave at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena and Queen Mary and Westfield College, London under the sponsorship of Monbusho (Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Japan). He is Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (Japan). Since 2001 for two years he served as the Chair of IEEE MTT-S Japan Chapter. He was awarded the 17th Award of the Scientific Measurements Research Foundation in 1984, the Kenneth J. Button Medal in 1998, the Info-communication Month Award in 1999, the C-Society Symposium Award of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan in 2000, the Minister Award of MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan) in 2003, and the Distinguished Educator Award of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society in 2005.
His hobbies are sailing and playing the flute, and he is a owner/skipper of a 24-feet sailing boat
