Hajime Igarashi has been a Professor at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University (Japan), since 2004. He was a guest researcher at the Technical University of Berlin from 1995 to 1997. His research areas are computational electromagnetism, design optimization, and energy harvesting. Igarashi is a vice president of the International COMPUMAG Society, a fellow of Institute of Electrical Engineers in Japan (IEEJ), a member of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), and a member of IEEE. He was the recipient of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award and the Outstanding Technical Paper Award by IEEJ in 2016. He has authored or coauthored more than 300 international journal papers.