!!!Professor Kazuo Tanaka
 Professor
 Department of Polymer Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
 Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
 Phone: +81-75-383-2604 Fax: +81-75-383-2605
 e-mail: tanaka@poly.synchem.kyoto-u.ac.jp

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*Web of Science ResearcherID: G-4338-2017
*ORCID: 0000-0001-6571-7086
*[Scopus ID: 7406929093|https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7406929093]

!Personal
*Date of Birth:　 Feb. 15, 1977
*Birthplace:　　　 Osaka, Japan
*Blood Type: 　  O 

!Education 
*2000.3 B.S., Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University 
*2002.3 M.S., Saito lab, Dept. of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Eng., Kyoto University 
*2004.3 Ph.D., Saito lab, Dept. of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Eng., Kyoto University 



!PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
*2002.4 Research Fellow (JSPS) Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Kyoto University 
*2004.4 Postdoctoral Fellow, Kool lab, Stanford University, U.S.A.
*2005.9 NEDO Researcher, Hamachi lab, Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Eng., Kyoto University 
*2006.4 Unit Researcher, Okamoto Initiative Research Unit, Frontier Research System, RIKEN  
*2007.2 Assistant professor, Chujo lab, Department of Polymer Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University.
*2014.12 Lecturer, Chujo lab, Department of Polymer Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University.
*2015.9-present Associate Professor, Chujo lab, Department of Polymer Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University.
*2018.8-present Professor, Department of Polymer Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University.

!AWARD
*2003 CSJ Student Presentation Award from the Chemical Society of Japan
*2010 Young Scientist Award from the Society of Polymer Science (Japan) 
*2011 Award for Encouragement of Research in Polymer Science; The Society of Polymer Science, Japan (2010)
*2012 SPSJ Award for the Outstanding Paper in Polymer Journal sponsored by ZEON, 2011
*2013 The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Young Chemists from the Chemical Society of Japan
*2017 BCSJ Award

!FIELD of STUDIES and RESEARCH INTERESTS 

*Material Science
**Element-block polymer
***POSS
***Group 13 element complex
***Carborane
**Organic-inorganic hybrid
*Photochemistry
**Aggregation-induced emission
**Heteroatom-containing conjugated polymer
*Biochemistry
**MR probes
**Optical probes
**DNA chemistry