Tadashi Furuhara is Director and Professor of the Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Japan. He obtained Master degrees at Kyoto University, Japan and a PhD at Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A. After he serves as an assistant and associate professor in Kyoto University, he became a Professor at Tohoku University in 2005.

His main research activity covers a broad area in physical metallurgy of steels and non-ferrous alloys, such as phase transformations/precipitation, deformation/ recrystallization, microstructure control by thermo-mechanical/thermo-chemical processing.

He also actively contributes to various academic societies in metallurgy field. He was a vice president of the Japan Institute of Metals and Materials and a vice president of the Iron and Steel Institute of Japan. He has been an active member in the Phase Transformation Committee and the Steel Committee of the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), and currently an editor of Acta and Scripta Materialia.