Teruo Fujii is a Japanese professor of Engineering and Applied Microfluidic Systems in University of Tokyo, and since 2007 as a professor at the Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) of the university (Director General of the institute from 2015 to 2018 ) has been conducting research on Microfluidics. He received his Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Tokyo (1993). Fujii was also Co-director of LIMMS-CNRS/IIS, a joint research lab between CNRS, France, and IIS, from 2007 to 2014. He served as the President of The Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society(CBMS).
Since April 2021, Fujii has been 31st president of the University of Tokyo, after succeeding Makoto Gonokami who retired in 2021. When Fujii took office as President of the UTokyo, he set “Diversity & Inclusion” as one of the pillars to formulate new action guidelines, and made an epoch-making personnel affairs in which the composition of directors of the new executive department (including the president) is a majority of women.