Fumio Narita is a Professor in the Department of Frontier Sciences for Advanced Environment, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University, Japan. His current research focuses on the design and development of piezoelectric/magnetostrictive materials and structures in energy harvesting and self-powered environmental monitoring. He is extensively using state-of-the-art electromagneto-mechanical characterization techniques in combination with computational multiscale modeling to understand the fundamental structure–property relations of complex multifunctional composite materials.