Editors

Shoogo Ueno is Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. He received his B.S., M.S.

and Ph.D. (Dr. Eng.) degrees in electronic engineering from Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, in

1966, 1968 and 1972, respectively. Dr. Ueno was Associate Professor with the Department of Electronics,

Kyushu University, from 1976 to 1986. From 1979 to 1981, he spent his sabbatical with the Department

of Biomedical Engineering, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden, as a Guest Scientist. He served

as Professor in the Department of Electronics, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University,

from 1986 to 1994 and subsequently served as Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering,

Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, from 1994 to 2006. During this

time, he also served as Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering, Graduate School of

Engineering, University of Tokyo. In 2006, he retired from the University of Tokyo as Professor

Emeritus. Since then, he has been a Professor with the Department of Applied Quantum Physics,

Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University, and he served as the Dean of the Faculty of

Medical Technology, Teikyo University, Fukuoka, Japan, from 2009 through 2012. His research interests

include biomedical engineering and bioelectromagnetics, particularly in the biological efects of mag­

netic and electromagnetic felds, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), and magnetic resonance

imaging (MRI). He was the President of the Bioelectromagnetics Society, BEMS (2003–2004), and the

Chairman of the Commission K on Electromagnetics in Biology and Medicine of the International

Union of Radio Science, URSI (2000–2003). He received the Doctor Honoris Causa from Linkoping

University (1998). He was the 150th anniversary Jubilee Visiting Professor at Chalmers University of

Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden (2006), and Visiting Professor at Simon Frasier University, Burnaby,

Canada (1994), and Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia (2008). He was named

the IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer during 2010 and received the d’Arsonval Medal

from the Bioelectromagnetics Society in 2010. Dr. Ueno is Life Fellow (2011) and Fellow of the Institute

of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE (2001), Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and

Biological Engineering, AIMBE (2001), Fellow of the International Academy for Medical and Biological

Engineering, IAMBE (2006), and Fellow of the URSI (2017).

Tsukasa Shigemitsu received the B.S., M.Sc. and Dr. Eng. degrees in electronic engineering from

Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, in 1971, 1973 and 1979, respectively. He was an assistant researcher

at the Max Planck Institute for Physiology, Dortmund, West Germany, from 1974 to 1976. In 1980, he

joined the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI), Tokyo. His main research

interests covered issues concerning the investigations of the biological and health efects of extremely

low frequency (ELF) and Intermediate frequency (IF) electromagnetic felds (EMF). He served three

years in JAPAN EMF Information Center in Tokyo. He is a member of the Bioelectromagnetic Society

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