Professor Tetsuo Irifune is Director of the Geodynamics Research Center, Ehime University, Japan. He received his BSc from Kyoto University (Japan), MSc from Nagoya University (Japan), and PhD from Hokkaido University (Japan), and worked at the Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, as a post-doc before he got professorship in Ehime University. His current research activity concerns mineral physics and synthesis of new materials using multi-anvil high-pressure technique. He received Humboldt Research Award, Japan Mineralogical Society Award, Japan Society of High Pressure Science & Technology Award, Ishikawa Carbon Prize, A.E. Ringwood Medal, R.W. Bunsen Medal, Medal with Purple Ribbon of Japanese Government, etc. He is Fellows of American Geophysical Union and Japan Geoscience Union. Professor Irifune was elected as the President of AIRAPT in 2011 for 4 years.