※ Affiliations and titles are as of the end of the research activity.
Research Supervisor
Tadashi Itou（Professor, Institute for NanoScience Design, Osaka University）
Overview
The present research area aims at accelerating collaboration and fusion of potential research and development (R&D) capacities related to light utilization science and optical technologies that currently are individually investigated in different fields such as substances and materials; processing and measurement; information and communication; environment and energy; and life sciences, so as to build up foundations for creation of a innovative new stream for “relation of materials to photons” in the field of optical science and technology.
Research Area Advisors
| Mitsuru Sugawara |
| Sukekatsu Ushioda |
| Kazuhiro Ema |
| Toshiaki Ohta |
| Tatsuo Okada |
| Makoto Kikuchi |
| Kashiko Kodate |
| Keiji Sasaki |
| Yusaburo Segawa |
| Hideki Hashimoto |
| Kaoru Yamanouchi |
Year Started: 2008
Research Director
Shinichiro Iwai (Professor, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University)
- Hideo Kishida (Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University)
- Takahiko Sasaki (Professor, Tohoku University)
- Hitoshi Seo (RIKEN)
- Akira Takahashi (Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology)
- Satoshi Takahashi (Professor, Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University)
Research Director
Shunichi Sato (Professor, Tohoku University)
- Tomomi Nemoto (Professor, Hokkaido University)
- Hiroyuki Yokoyama (Professor, Tohoku University)
Research Director
Shik Shin (Professor, The University of Tokyo)
- Yohei Kobayashi (The University of Tokyo)
- Shuntaro Watanabe (Professor, Tokyo University of Science)
Research Director
Toshinori Suzuki (Professor, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University)
- Takao Fuji
Research Director
Yoshiro Takahashi (Professor, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University)
- Kazuhiko Ito (Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited)
- Tetsuya Ido
- Kazuyuki Etoh (Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited)
- Makoto Yamashita (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
Research Director
Ayae Honda (Professor, Hosei University)
- Fumihito Arai (Professor, Nagoya University)
- Tadao Sugiura (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
Year Started: 2009
Research Director
Takeshi Imamura (Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime University)
- Ichiro Sase
- Shunichi Sato (Professor, Tohoku University)
- Kiyoshi Naruse (present Professor, National Institute for Basic Biology, National institute of Natural Science)
- Tomomi Nemoto (Professor, Hokkaido University)
- Shigenori Nonaka (National Institute for Basic Biology, National Institutes of Natural Sciences)
- Hiroyuki Yokoyama (Professor, Tohoku University)
- Tomonori Deguchi
Research Director
Yoshimasa Kawata (Professor, Research Institute of Electronics, Shizuoka University)
- Susumu Terakawa (Hamamatsu University School of Medicine)
Research Director
Shinya Koshihara (Professor, Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
- Sumio Ishihara (Professor, Tohoku University)
- Kenji Yonemisyu (Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University)
Research Director
Shigeki Takeuchi (Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University)
- Sunao Kurimura (National Institute for Materials Science)
- Holger・F Hofmann (Professor, Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University)
Research Director
Kouichiro Tanaka (Professor, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University)
- Takao Aoki (Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University)
- Yutaka Kadoya (Professor, Hiroshima University)
- Mitsuru Namiki
Research Director
Tomonao Hosokai (Osaka University)
- Kazuto Arakawa (Shimane University)
Year Started: 2010
Research Director
Kenji Omori
- Yosuke Kayanuma (Faculty of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University)
- Kazutaka Nakamura (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Research Director
Takashige Omatsu (Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University)
- Sunao Kurimura (National Institute for Materials Science)
- Ryuji Morita (Professor, Hokkaido University)
Research Director
Takayoshi Kobayashi (The University of Electro-Communications)
- Manabu Abe (Professor, Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University)
- Haruo Kasai (Project Professor, International Research Center for Neurointelligence (WPI-IRCN), The University of Tokyo)
Research Director
Kazuto Yamauchi (Professor, Osaka University)
- Mari Shimura
- Yoshinori Nishino (Professor, Hokkaido University)
- Kazuhiro Maeshima (Professor)
