Te Ma received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees from Nagoya University, Japan.
He is currently a designated assistant professor at the Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University. His main research is to develop new optical imaging measurement system and mechanical engineering process for utilization of forest and agricultural products.
Keiichiro Shiraga received his ME (2014) and PhD (2016) degrees from Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University. He was a postdoc at RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences as a Special Postdoctoral Researcher, and then returned to the Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University as an Assistant Professor in 2020. He has also been working as a PRESTO program “Creating state-of-the-art science by innovative optics and photonics led by Prof. Koichiro Tanaka from 2020 Nov. He mainly engages in terahertz spectroscopy studies to unveil biological roles of water in living cells.
Born in 1972 in Tokyo, Japan
Ph.D. (2001), Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
2001-2003, Postdoctoral Fellow, Hokkaido University
2003-2007, Postdoctoral Fellow, Kwansei-Gakuin University
2007-2012, Assistant Professor, Nagoya University
2012-2017, present, Associate Professor, Osaka Electro-Communication University
2012-present, Professor, Osaka Electro-Communication University
Craig Schwartz received his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University (IL, USA) and his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from University of California, Berkeley in 2010. His thesis work focused on theoretical and experimental investigations of liquids using X-ray spectroscopic techniques. He subsequently worked for an insurance company, before returning to science to develop ultrafast X-ray methods for synchrotrons at Argonne National Laboratory. He then became a project scientist at SLAC national lab where he built X-ray spectrometers and worked on ultrafast phenomena. His research is primarily concerned with X-ray spectroscopy and scattering. Primarily, he studies soft matter by spectroscopic means. He is also interested in developing new X-ray spectroscopic methods, particularly methods that require the high fields of X-ray free electron lasers.