Osamu Ishitani
Hiroshima University
Biography
Osamu Ishitani is a Special Appointed Professor of ÀË»¨Ö±²¥ at Hiroshima University and an emeritus professor of Tokyo Institute of Technology. He received his B. Eng. from Kobe University (1982) and Dr. Eng. from Osaka University (1987).
He spent three months as a visiting researcher at the Hahn-Meitner Institute (Berlin, Germany), then joined the National Institute for Resources and Environment (AIST) as a researcher, and moved to Saitama University as an associate professor in 1995. He moved to Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2002 and became a full professor in 2006. He is a Vice President of the Asian and Oceanian Photochemistry Association.
Osami served as President of the Japanese Photochemical Association (2020-) and Vice President of the Chemical Society of Japan (2018-2020). He has been interested in artificial photosynthesis for longer than 30 years. The main scientific targets of his group are photocatalytic CO2 reduction, photochemical properties of transition metal complexes, photo-functional metal complexes, and hybrid photocatalysts consisting of metal complexes and semiconductor materials.
RSC affiliations
Advisory board, Sustainable Energy & Fuels
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