Hideo Mabuchi is a self-taught ceramist currently focusing on thrown-and-altered vessel forms for atmospheric firings. When not in the studio he teaches and conducts research as a Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University. Combining these interests, he is working to develop new teaching approaches that integrate ceramics with scientific and humanistic studies to bring craft into the core of liberal undergraduate education. He is likewise engaged in various studies of the physics of color formation on wood-fired ceramics using high temperature imaging and optical/electron microscopy.