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Biographical Sketches supervisor of PRESTO (JST) in artificial photosynthesis and the editor-in-chief of Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology, C: Photochemistry Reviews. His research interests include photochemistry, artificial photosynthesis, and photofunctional materials.
Shinsuke Takagi received his Ph.D. from Tokyo Metropolitan University under the supervision of Professor Haruo Inoue. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Applied Chemistry, Tokyo Metropolitan University. He received an international prize, the APA Prize for Young Scientists, from The Asian and Oceanian Photochemistry Association in 2004 and the Young Scientist Award from The Clay Science Society of Japan in 2009. His research was selected as a “Frontier in Chemistry” for 2005 in the Chemical Society of Japan membership journal. His research interests include the photochemistry of porphyrins and photochemical reactions in chemical reaction microenvironments provided by micelles, reversed micelles, vesicles, zeolites, and clay minerals. Tetsuya Shimada received his Ph.D. in 1993 for work on VUV laser chemistry from Osaka University. From 1993 until 1995, he worked at Toyohashi University of Technology as a research associate. Since 1996, he has worked at Tokyo Metropolitan University. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Applied Chemistry, Tokyo Metropolitan University. Yohei Ishida received his B.S. and M.S. in applied chemistry from Tokyo Metropolitan University in 2009 and 2011, respectively. He is currently a graduate student working towards Ph.D. at Tokyo Metropolitan University under the supervision of Associate Professor Shinsuke Takagi. He has also been a research fellow DC1 of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) since 2011. He is currently interested in the control of photochemical properties of functional dyes on inorganic surfaces. Takuya Fujimura received his B.S. and M.S. in applied chemistry from Tokyo Metropolitan University in 2010 and 2012, respectively. He has been a research fellow of the JSPS (DC1) since 2012 and is working toward his Ph.D. from Tokyo Metropolitan University under the supervision of Associate Professor Shinsuke Takagi. His research interests include controlling molecules by using the structure and photochemical properties of clay−dye complexes. Dai Masui has been a lecturer at Tokyo Medical University since 2011, before which he was an assistant professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo under the supervision of Professor Masanobu Hidai in 2000. He received his B.S. and M.S. in synthetic and industrial chemistry from the University of Tokyo in 1993 and 1995, respectively. His principal research interests are the syntheses and reactivities of multinuclear complexes and porphyrin complexes. Hiroshi Tachibana received his B.S. and Ph.D. in applied chemistry from Tokyo Metropolitan University. He is currently a professor of information science in the liberal arts course of Tokyo Metropolitan University. His research interests are analyzing and designing photochemical reactions by MO calculations. Haruo Inoue joined the faculty of Tokyo Metropolitan University in 1971 as an assistant professor and was promoted to full professor in 1991. He is serving as the research © 2013 American Chemical Society
Published: January 17, 2013 2093
dx.doi.org/10.1021/la400174r | Langmuir 2013, 29, 2093−2093
