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－　　－4Hiroshi NOMURAProfessor, Department of Mechanical EngineeringHiroshi Nomura is a professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Tokyo in 1992 after completing the doctoral course of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo in 1991. The title of his doctoral thesis was “Research on fuel droplet evaporation in sub- and supercritical environments” and his doctoral thesis experiments were conducted at the Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity, University of Bremen, Germany from 1989 to 1992. Dr. Nomura started his research career at the College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University in 1992. From 2000 to 2001, he was a visiting researcher at the Illinois Institute of Technology where he focused on fuel cells. He is a member of the Japan Society of Microgravity Application (JASMA), the Combustion Institute of Japan, the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME), the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences (JSASS), the Japan Society of Automotive Engineers (JSAE), the Institute for Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems (ILASS-Japan), and the Electrochemical Society of Japan (ECS). He was appointed president of JASMA in 2021.Research Achievements1)Experimental Study on Unsteadiness of n-decane Single Droplet Evaporation and Effect of Natural Convection on Droplet Evaporation at High Pressures and Temperatures, Trans. JSASS Aerospace Tech. Japan, 19(2021), 647-653.2)Numerical Prediction of the Spontaneous Ignition of Cool Flame for the Microgravity Experiment by Using Sounding Rocket, Trans. JSASS Aerospace Tech. Japan, 19(2021), 539-544.3)Generation of a Large-Scale n-Decane-Droplet Cloud Considering Droplet Pre-Vaporization in “Group Combustion” Experiments aboard Kibo/ISS, International Journal of Microgravity Science Application, 35(2018), 10.15011//jasma.35.350202.4)Droplet Cloud Combustion Experiment “Group Combustion” in KIBO on ISS, Int. J. Microgravity Sci. Appl., 33(2016), 10.15011/jasma.33. 330208.5)Droplet ignition behavior in the vicinity of the leading edge of a flame spreading along a fuel droplet array in fuel-vapor/air mixture, Proc. Combust. Inst., 34(2013), 1593-1600.Sequential backlit images of an evaporating droplet.Drop suspension system.Drop tower for microgravity experiments (in our campus).