Artificial Photosynthetic Assemblies Constructed from Molecules and Semiconductors

Venue: CCEB ND Conference Room (N1.2-01-17) 

Biography

Kazuhiko Maeda received his PhD from The University of Tokyo (2007) under the supervision of Professor Kazunari Domen. During 2008–2009, he was a postdoctoral fellow at The Pennsylvania State University, where he worked with Professor Thomas E. Mallouk. He then joined The University of Tokyo as an Assistant Professor in 2009. Moving to Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2012 (renamed as Institute of Science Tokyo from October 2024), he was promoted to an Associate Professor. He was also appointed as a PRESTO/JST researcher during 2010–2014. From 2022, he is working as a full professor, and a fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry. His major research interest is heterogeneous photocatalysis for light to chemical energy conversion, with a focus on water splitting and CO2 fixation. He published more than 280 peer-reviewed papers on international journals with more than 62,100 citations and h-index of 100.

Awards

2012: 6th PCCP Prize for Outstanding Achievement of Young Scientists, Royal Society of Chemistry

2013: The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Young Chemists

2016: The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan: The Young Scientists’ Prize

2016: The 13th JSPS Prize

2018: Highly Cited Researcher 2018 (Chemistry)

2019: Highly Cited Researcher 2019 (Chemistry)

2020: Highly Cited Researcher 2020 (Chemistry)

2021: Highly Cited Researcher 2021 (Chemistry)

2022: Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)