Kōryō Miura

He is a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo[2] and at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science.

Miura originally intended this method to be used in spacecraft for deployable membranes such as solar panel arrays,[3] but it has since found many other applications including in cartography, surgical devices, flat-foldable furniture, and electrical storage.

[4] With Sergio Pellegrino of Caltech, Miura is the author of the book Forms and Concepts for Lightweight Structures (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

[1] He is also an honorary member of the International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry (SIS).

[5] His work with Tomohiro Tachi on flexible polyhedra derived from the Miura fold won the 2013 Tsuboi Award of the IASS.