Minoru Kubo

Minoru Kubo
Degree
Ph.D.
Position, Research site
Senior Research Scientist, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, RIKEN Harima Institute
URL
http://www.riken.jp/biometal/index-e.htm
Research Field
Vibrational spectroscopy
1998.3
B. Eng., Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University
2000.3
M. Sci., Major in Pure and Applied Physics, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University (under Prof. H. Suzuki)
2003.3
Ph.D., Division of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University (under Prof. E. Ito)
2002.4-2003.3
JSPS Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC2)
Computational chemistry on ligand-protein interactions in a glutamate receptor (under Prof. E. Ito)
2003.4-2004.3
JSPS Fellowship for Young Scientists (PD)
Femtosecond spectroscopy on ultrafast electron transfer in metal complexes as biomimetic models (under Prof. S. Iwai)
2004.4-2006.9
IMS Fellow, Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience, National Institutes of Natural Sciences
Development of a time-resolved UV Raman system / Raman spectroscopy on structural dynamics of metalloproteins (under Prof. T. Kitagawa)
2006.10-2007.12
Postdoctoral Researcher, Northeastern University (2007.4- JSPS Postdoctral Fellowship for Research Abroad)
Femtosecond spectroscopy on low-frequency dynamics of metalloproteins (under Prof. P. M. Champion)
2008.1-2012.9
Research Assistant Professor, University of Hyogo (2012.4- Research Associate Professor)
Development of a highly-sensitive time-resolved IR system using a femtosecond laser / Raman and IR spectroscopies on structural dynamics of metalloproteins (under Prof. T. Ogura)
2012.10-2014.4
Research Scientist, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, RIKEN Harima Institute
Development of a time-resolved X-ray diffraction system using XFEL / IR spectroscopy on chemical reaction mechanisms of metalloproteins (under Prof. Y. Shiro)
2014.4-present
Senior Research Scientist
2012.10-2016.3
JST PRESTO Researcher (concurrent)