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Masato TAKEUCHI
Associate Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering
Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka Japan

Educational and Work Backgrounds
1997 Bachelor degree, Osaka Prefecture University
1999 Master degree, Osaka Prefecture University
2002 PhD degree, Osaka Prefecture University (Investigations on the Preparation of TiO2 Thin Film Photocatalysts Reactive to Visible Light Irradiation by Applying Ion Engineering Techniques)
2002−2004 JSPS Postdoctoral Researcher
2003 Postdoctoral Researcher, Torino University, Italy (Prof. Salvatore Coluccia, Prof. Gianmario Martra)
2004 Research Associate, Osaka Prefecture University
2007 Assistant Professor, Osaka Prefecture University
2010 Associate Professor, Osaka Prefecture University

Research Subjects
Mid-IR and Near-IR spectroscopies for surface science:
Adsorption species, such as H2O, NH3, hydradine, alcohols, and etc., on catalysts
Mechanisms for chemical reactions involving water molecules
Development of photocatalysts and adsorbents for efficient removal of VOCs

Current Office
Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University
Address: 1-1, Gakuen-cho, Naka-ku, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531 Japan
E-mail: masato-t@chem.osakafu-u.ac.jp
Phone: +81-72-254-9287, FAX: +81-72-254-9910

Yusuke MORISAWA, Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry, School of Science and Engineering, Kindai University, was born in 1975 in Kyoto, Japan. He received his Bachelor degree in 1998 from Kwansei Gakuin University, as well as Master (2000) and Doctor (2005) of Science degrees from Kyoto University. He sereved as a Postdoctral fellow of Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (2005-2007), and Kwansei Gakuin University (2007-2012), and Lecturer (2012-2016) and Associate Professor (2016-) in Kindai University, Osaka, Japan. He received the Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry Award for Advanced Analytical Technology (JAIMA Award) in 2011 and the Spectroscopic Society of Japan Award for Young Scientist in 2013. His current research interest is molecular spectroscopy and its analytical applications in the region from THz to FUV.

Tomohiro Hayashi received his Ph.D. degree in 2003 from Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. He joined Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2003 as a postdoc and was promoted to an associate professor in 2010. His specialist areas are surface and interface science, scanning probe microscopy, materials informatics, and computer simulations. He has been awarded 11 academic prizes, including the Asahi Kasei award of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan (2011). A summary of his activities is given at http://lab.spm.jp/. (tomo@mac.titech.ac.jp)

Masaru Tanaka is a professor at Kyushu University. In the period of 1996-2000 he worked for TERUMO Co. and designed novel biocompatible polymers and commercialized as an artificial lung. In 2000 he moved to Hokkaido University and in 2007 he moved to Tohoku University. Stents covered with the self-organized porous 3D films are commercially available in the world clinical market. In 2009 he was awarded a full professorship at Yamagata University. He became a leader of Funding Program for Next Generation World-Leading Researchers (NEXT Program, Japan 2011-2014). He has received several awards, including the SPSJ Asahi Kasei Award for his intermediate water concept based on the role of interfacial water at materials’ interphases. Intermediate water content is a good predictor of biological responses to materials and is using for high-through put materials discovery.

Masaru Tanaka
Professor, Dr.
Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka,
819-0395, Japan. HP Web: http://www.soft-material.jp/