Professor Kazuo Tanaka

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

• Web of Science ResearcherID: G-4338-2017
• ORCID: 0000-0001-6571-7086
• Scopus ID: 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