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Toru H .Okabe (born December 4, 1965) is a Japanese scientist specializing in materials science, environmental science, resource circulation engineering, and rare metals process engineering.
== For the past 30 years, he has consistently focused on ways of recycling rare or specialty metals, becoming one of the world's leading scientists working towards the development of new sustainable processes of urban mining, i.e., recycling rare metals from electronic waste. [1] He is also developing new technology to transform rare metals into common metals. His most recent work involves the advancement of new processing technology to recycle rare metals like niobium, tantalum, scandium, tungsten, rhenium, and precious metals. [2][3][4][5][6] ==  Biography :

Toru H. Okabe graduated from The Japanese School in London, in 1981, and then from Senior High School at Otsuka, University of Tsukuba, Japan, in 1984. He subsequently received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Engineering, Metallurgy, from Kyoto University, Japan, in 1988 and 1990 respectively. Okabe then began his doctoral studies in Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials Science, at Kyoto University, during which time he researched the processing of reactive metals such as titanium and niobium. He received his PhD in 1993.

After earning his doctoral degree, supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS, Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research Abroad), Okabe took up residence for 3 years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. Following this, he returned to Japan to become a research associate at the Institute of Advanced Materials Processing, Tohoku University (currently known as the Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, IMRAM). He remained in this position till 2001.

In 2001, Okabe began his stint at the Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, as an Associate Professor, where he then progressed to professorship, and became Vice President from 2019 to 2021. At present, Okabe is serving as the Director-General of the Institute of Industrial Science at the University of Tokyo. [7][8][9][10]

In 2021, Okabe received the Degree of Doctor Honoris Causa at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), for working closely with researchers at NTNU for many years, and was appointed an Honorary Doctor at NTNU. [11]

 Awards:  [9]

1.	Student Poster Prize from the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS, USA) at the 7th World Conference on Titanium, San Diego, June 28–July 2, 1992

2.	15th Technological Development Prize (Gijutsu-kaihatsu-shou) from the Japan Institute of Metals at the 111th Fall Meeting, Toyama, October 6–8, 1992

3.	14th Honda Memorial Silver Prize (Honda-kinen-shourei-shou) from the Honda Memorial Foundation in Tokyo, May 19, 1993

4.	11th Inoue Research Prize (Inoue-kenkyu-shourei-shou) from the Inoue Foundation for Science in Tokyo, February 6, 1995

5.	47th Best Paper Awards (Kinzoku Gakkai Ronbun-shou) from the Japan Institute of Metals at the 125th Fall Meeting, Kanazawa, November 21–22, 1999

6.	25th Best Paper Awards (Shigen-Sozaigakkai Ronbun-shou) from the Mining and Materials Institute of Japan at the 123rd Spring Meeting, Tokyo, March 30, 2000

7.	26th Best Paper Awards (Shigen-Sozaigakkai Ronbun-shou) from the Mining and Materials Institute of Japan at the 124th Spring meeting, Tokyo, March 30, 2001

8.	23rd Murakami Prize (Murakami-Shourei-shou) from the Murakami Memorial Foundation in Sendai, May 15, 2003

.9.	30th Encouraging Prize (Shigen-Sozaigakkai Shourei-shou) from the Mining and Materials Institute of Japan, March 28, 2005

10 .	8th Honda Prize of Technological Development of Recycling from Clean Japan Center in Tokyo, January 2004

11.	The 38th Ichimura Prize in Technology–Meritorious Achievement Prize from The New Technology Development Foundation, April 28, 2006

12.	65th JIM Meritorious Award from the Japan Institute of Metals at the 140th Spring meeting, Chiba, March 27, 2007 13.	32nd Best Paper Awards (Shigen-Sozaigakkai Ronbun-shou) from the Mining and Materials Institute of Japan at the 130th Spring meeting, Tokyo, March 30, 2007

14.	26th Technology Award (Gijutsu-shou) from The Japan Titanium Society, November 9, 2009

15.	2012 Nikkei Global Environmental Technology Awards for the establishment of innovative approaches to the global environment, Nikkei Inc., November 7, 2012

16.	The 12th Green and Sustainable Chemistry Award (GSC Award), The Minister of the Environment Award (The Japan Association for Chemical Innovation (JACI), Green and Sustainable Chemistry Network (GSCN)), “Development of Green Recycling Technology for Rare Earth Metals,” June 6, 2013

17.	36th Technological Development Prize (Gijutsu-kaihatsu-shou) from the Japan Institute of Metals at the 153rd Fall meeting, Toyama, September 7, 2013

18.	The ASM Henry Marion Howe Medal for 2013 for the paper entitled, “Effective Dissolution of Platinum by Using Chloride Salts in Recovery Process,” ASM International (The Materials Information Society), Montreal, Canada, October 29, 2013 [12]

19.	62nd Best Paper Awards (Kinzoku Gakkai Ronbun-shou) from the Japan Institute of Metals at the 155th Fall Meeting, Nagoya, September 24–26, 2014

20.	MMIJ Distinguished Paper Award 2015, (40th Best Paper Awards, Shigen-Sozaigakkai Ronbun-shou) from the Mining and Materials Processing Institute of Japan at the Spring Meeting, Chiba, March 28, 2015

21.	Technology Development Award (Fujimori Award), The Rare Earth Society of Japan, H27 Annual Meeting of The Rare Earth Society of Japan at Kagoshima, May 21, 2015

22.	13th Honda Frontier Prize (Honda-Frontier -shou) from the Honda Memorial Foundation, May 27, 2016

23.	86th Hoko Prize (Hattori-Hoko-Shou) from the Hattori Hokokai Foundation, October 7, 2016.

24.	2016 Molten Salt Award from Molten Salt Committee, The Electrochemical Society of Japan, January 27, 2017

25.	44th Best Paper Awards (Shigen-Sozaigakkai Ronbun-shou) from the Mining and Materials Institute of Japan, Tokyo, March 28, 2019

26.	The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT), Prizes for Science and Technology, Public Understanding Promotion Category, April 17, 2019

27.	TMS Extraction & Processing Division Pyrometallurgy Best Paper Award, February 26, 2020

28.	The Degree of Doctor Honoris Causa at NTNU, Honorary Doctor of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), March 26, 2021

29.	The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Prizes for Science and Technology, Research Category, April 14, 2021

30 Noteworthy Publications

31: Original articles: 'Thermodynamic Properties of Dilute Titanium-Oxygen Solid Solution in Beta Phase', T. H. Okabe, R. O. Suzuki, T. Oishi, and K. Ono: Mater. Trans. (JIM), vol.32, no.5 (1991) pp.485–488. DOI: 10.2320/matertrans1989.32.485 'Preparation and Characterization of Extra-Low-Oxygen Titanium', T. H. Okabe, T. Oishi, and K. Ono: J. Alloy. Compound., vol.184 (1992) pp.43–56. DOI: 10.1016/0925-8388(92)90454-H 'Electrochemical Deoxidation of Titanium', T. H. Okabe, M. Nakamura, T. Oishi, and K. Ono: Met. Trans. B, vol.24B, (1993) pp.449–455. DOI: 10.1007/BF02666427 'Electrochemical Deoxidation of Yttrium-Oxygen Solid Solution', T. H. Okabe, T. Deura, T. Oishi, K. Ono, and D. R. Sadoway: J. Alloy. Compound., vol.237 (1996) pp.150–154. DOI: 10.1016/0925-8388(95)02129-9 'Thermodynamic Properties of Oxygen in Yttrium Solid Solution', T. H. Okabe, T. Deura, T. Oishi, K. Ono, and D. R. Sadoway: Met. Trans. B, vol.27B, October (1996) pp.841–847. DOI: 10.1007/BF02915613 'Thermodynamic Properties of Oxygen in Ln-O (Ln=La, Pr, Nd) Solid Solutions and Their Deoxidation by Molten Salt Electrolysis', T. H. Okabe, K. Hirota, Y. Waseda, and K. T. Jacob: J. Min. Mater. Proces. Inst. Japan, vol.114, no.11 (1998) pp.813–818. DOI: 10.2473/shigentosozai.114.813 'Metallothermic Reduction as an Electronically Mediated Reaction', T. H. Okabe and D. R. Sadoway: J. Mater. Res., vol.12, no.13 (1998) pp.3372–3377. DOI: 10.1557/JMR.1998.0459 'Production of Niobium Powder by Electronically Mediated Reaction (EMR) Using Calcium as a Reductant', T. H. Okabe, Il Park, K. T. Jacob, and Y. Waseda: J. Alloy. Compound., vol.288 (1999) pp.200–210. DOI: 10.1016/S0925-8388(99)00130-9 'Electro-Oxidation of Molybdenum Concentrate Using Bipolar Cell, and Recovery of Rhenium', T. Darjaa, T. H. Okabe, Y. Waseda, and Y. Umetsu: J. Min. Mater. Inst. Japan, vol.116, no.6 (2000) pp.520–526. DOI: 10.2473/shigentosozai.116.520 'Direct Extraction and Recovery of Neodymium Metal from Magnet Scrap', T. H. Okabe, O. Takeda, K. Fukuda, and Y. Umetsu: Materials Trans. (JIM), vol.44, no.4 (2003) pp.798–801. DOI: 10.2320/matertrans.44.798 'Recovery of Platinum Using Magnesium Vapor', T. H. Okabe, S. Yamamoto, Y. Kayanuma, and M. Maeda: J. Mater. Res., vol.18, no.8 (2003) pp.1960–1967. DOI: 10.1557/JMR.2003.0272 'Titanium Powder Production by Preform Reduction Process (PRP)', T. H. Okabe, T. Oda, and Y. Mitsuda: J. Alloy. Compound., vol.364 (2004) pp.156–163. DOI: 10.1016/S0925-8388(03)00610-8 'High-Speed Titanium Production by Magnesiothermic Reduction of Titanium Trichloride', O. Takeda and T. H. Okabe: Materials Trans. (JIM), vol.47, no.4 (2006) pp.1145–1154. DOI: 10.2320/matertrans.47.1145 'Effective Dissolution of Platinum by Using Chloride Salts in Recovery Process', C. Horike, K. Morita, and T. H. Okabe: Metall. Mater. Trans. B, vol.43, no.6 (2012), pp.1300–1307. DOI: 10.1007/s11663-012-9746-z 'Direct Oxygen Removal Technique for Recycling Titanium Using Molten MgCl2 Salt', Toru H. Okabe, Y. Hamanaka, and Y. Taninouchi: Faraday Discussions, 190 (2016) pp. 109–126. DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00229J 'Bottlenecks in Rare Metal Supply and the Importance of Recycling: a Japanese Perspective', Toru H. Okabe: Mineral Proces. Extract. Metall., vol.126, no.1–2, (2017) pp.22–32. DOI: 10.1080/03719553.2016.1268855 'Recovery of Platinum Group Metals from Spent Catalysts Using Iron Chloride Vapor Treatment', Y. Taninouchi and T. H. Okabe: Metall. Mater. Trans. B, vol. 49, no 4, (2018) pp 1781–1793. DOI: 10.1007/s11663-018-1269-9 'Thermodynamic Considerations of Direct Oxygen Removal from Titanium by Utilizing the Deoxidation Capability of Rare Earth Metals', T. H. Okabe, C. Zheng, and Y. Taninouchi: Metall. Mater. Trans. B, vol. 49, no. 3, (2018) pp.1056–1066. DOI: 10.1007/s11663-018-1172-4 'Thermodynamic Analysis of Deoxidation of Titanium Through the Formation of Rare Earth Oxyfluorides', T. H. Okabe, Y. Taninouchi, and C. Zheng: Metall. Mater. Trans. B, vol. 49, no. 6, (2018), pp. 3107–3117. DOI: 10.1007/s11663-018-1386-5

Review Articles: 'Producing Titanium Through an Electronically Mediated Reaction', T. H. Okabe and Y. Waseda: J. Metal., vol.49 (1997) pp.28–32. DOI: 10.1007/BF02914710 'Current Status on Resource and Recycling Technology for Rare Earths', O. Takeda, T. H. Okabe: Metall. Mater. Trans. E, vol.1, no.2, (2014) pp 160–173. DOI: 10.1007/s40553-014-0016-7 'Current Status of Titanium Recycling and Related Technologies', O. Takeda, T. H. Okabe: J. Metal., vol.71, no.6 (2019) pp. 1981–1990. DOI: 10.1007/s11837-018-3278-1 'Recent Progress in Titanium Extraction and Recycling', O. Takeda, T. Ouchi, and T. H. Okabe: Metall. Mater. Transact. B, (2020) pp. 1315–1328. DOI: 10.1007/s11663-020-01898-6

Books: 'Removal of Oxygen in Reactive Metals' in Purification Process and Characterization of Ultra High Purity Metals, T. H. Okabe (分担執筆): edited by Y. Waseda and M. Isshiki, Springer, Berlin (2001) (全411頁) pp.3-37. ISBN: 978-3-642-56255-6 Extractive Metallurgy of Titanium, 1st Edition: Conventional and Recent Advances in Extraction and Production of Titanium Metal, T. H. Okabe (分担執筆): Editors: Z. Z. Fang, F. Froes, Y. Zhang, Elsevier (2019) (Page Count: 436). Paperback ISBN: 9780128172001, eBook ISBN: 9780128172018 Chapter 5 - Fundamentals of thermochemical reduction of TiCl4 (T. H. Okabe and O. Takeda) pp.65-96. Chapter 8 - Metallothermic reduction of TiO2 (T. H. Okabe) pp.131-164. Chapter 16 - Recycling of Ti (O. Takeda and T. H. Okabe) pp.363-388. To see the full list of his books and publications click here.

List of references (should be linked to respective in-text citations) 1.	^ «The latest Olympic event - urban mining». 2.	http://www.okabe.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/english/index_e.html. Okabe Laboratory 3.	'Electrochemical Deoxidation of Titanium', T. H. Okabe, M. Nakamura, T. Oishi, and K. Ono: Met. Trans. B, vol.24B, (1993) pp.449–455. DOI: 10.1007/BF02666427

4.	'Electrochemical Deoxidation of Yttrium-Oxygen Solid Solution', T. H. Okabe, T. Deura, T. Oishi, K. Ono, and D. R. Sadoway: J. Alloy. Compound., vol.237 (1996) pp.150–154. DOI: 10.1016/0925-8388(95)02129-9

5.	'Recovery of Platinum Group Metals from Spent Catalysts Using Iron Chloride Vapor Treatment', Y. Taninouchi and T. H. Okabe: Metall. Mater. Trans. B, vol. 49, no 4, (2018) pp 1781–1793. DOI: 10.1007/s11663-018-1269-9

6.	'Direct Extraction and Recovery of Neodymium Metal from Magnet Scrap', T. H. Okabe, O. Takeda, K. Fukuda, and Y. Umetsu: Materials Trans. (JIM), vol.44, no.4 (2003) pp.798–801. DOI: 10.2320/matertrans.44.798

7.	^ gpes.cu-tokyo.ac.jp 8.	^ «Faculty Members» .教員 情報 (Japanese). Visited September 23, 2020. 9.	^ a b «Curriculum Vitaes / Toru H. Okabe / Institute of Industrial Science, the». www.okabe.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp. Visited September 30, 2020. 10.	https://www.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/about/greeting/. Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) at the University of Tokyo 11.	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5Ig9nDX-W0. Honorary Doctoral Awards Ceremony 2021 (NTNU) 12.	^ NN (2010). ASM International® HENRY MARION HOWE MEDAL » (PDF). ASM International. Visited October 7, 2020.

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Born: December 4, 1965 (age 55), Kyoto, Japan Nationality: Japanese Alma mater: The Japanese School in London Senior High School at Otsuka, University of Tsukuba Kyoto University (B.Eng.) (M.Eng.) (Eng.D.) Known for: Resource Recovery and Material Process Engineering Fields: Resource Recovery, titanium, rare metals, materials process engineering, materials chemistry, circulation technology and environmental science. Institutions: The University of Tokyo Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials                 (IMRAM)),Tohoku University Websites: https://www.okabe.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/english/index_e.html	   https://www.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/about/greeting/ Categories: 1965 births Living people Japanese scientists Norwegian University of Science and Technology Rare metals Titanium Recycling metals Metallurgy Materials processing Material Science Resource recycling Materials chemistry Environmental chemistry The University of Tokyo Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Tohoku University