Members
Chief scientist
Tahei Tahara
Position
Chief Scientist
E-mail
tahei@riken.jp
1989
D.Sc., University of Tokyo
1989
Research Associate, University of Tokyo
1990
Research Associate, Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology
1995
Associate Professor, Institute for Molecular Science
2001
Chief Scientist, RIKEN
Group leaders
Kunihiko Ishii
Position
Senior Research Scientist
E-mail
kishii@riken.jp
Group
Single-molecule spectroscopy
Project
Development of new methods of single-molecule spectroscopy and photon data analysis
Satoshi Nihonyanagi
Position
Senior Research Scientist
E-mail
nsatoshi@riken.jp
Group
Interface spectroscopy
Project
In-situ observation of buried interfaces by a novel nonlinear spectroscopy
Postdocs & students
Miyuki Sakaguchi
Position
Postdoctoral Researcher
E-mail
miyuki.sakaguchi@riken.jp
Group
Single-molecule spectroscopy
Project
Study of the structural dynamics of protein by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy
Bidyut Sarkar
Position
Postdoctoral Researcher
E-mail
bidyut.sarkar@riken.jp
Group
Single-molecule spectroscopy
Project
Structural dynamics of biomolecules studied by novel single molecule spectroscopy
Ahmed Mohammed
Position
Postdoctoral Researcher
E-mail
ahmed.mohammed@riken.jp
Group
Interface spectroscopy
Project
Ultrafast dynamics of interfacial molecules studied with novel non-linear spectroscopy
Pardeep Kumar
Position
Postdoctoral Researcher
E-mail
pardeep.kumar@riken.jp
Group
Ultrafast spectroscopy
Project
Femtosecond structural study of functional materials
Woongmo Sung
Position
Postdoctoral Researcher
E-mail
woongmo.sung@riken.jp
Group
Interface spectroscopy
Project
Study of charged interfaces by time-resolved heterodyne-detected sum-frequency generation
Korenobu Matsuzaki
Position
Special Postdoctoral Researcher
E-mail
kmatsuzaki@riken.jp
Group
Project
Development of novel spectroscopic techniques using quantum light sources
Tsukasa Takanashi
Position
JSPS Visiting Researcher
E-mail
tsukasa.takanashi@riken.jp
Group
Ultrafast spectroscopy
Project
Observation of photochemical processes in organometallic complexes by ultrafast spectroscopy
Li Liu
Position
Postdoctoral Researcher
E-mail
li.liu@riken.jp
Group
Ultrafast spectroscopy
Project
Observation of structural rearrangement of molecular materials through ultrafast vibrational spectroscopy
Feng Wei
Position
Contract Researcher
E-mail
feng.wei.ha@riken.jp
Group
Interface spectroscopy
Project
Wooseok Heo
Position
Visiting Researcher
E-mail
wooseok.heo@riken.jp
Group
Single-molecule spectroscopy
Project
Chun-Fu Chang
Position
Student Trainee
E-mail
chun-fu.chang@riken.jp
Group
Ultrafast spectroscopy
Project
Ultrafast carrier and structural dynamics of organometal halide perovskite
Assistants
Tomoko Kato
Position
Assistant
E-mail
tomoko.kato@riken.jp
Visiting scientists
Tatsuya Fujino
Position
Visiting Scientist
E-mail
fujino048@toyo.jp
Present affiliation
Department of Applied Chemistry, Toyo University
Haruko Hosoi
Position
Visiting Scientist
E-mail
haru@biomol.sci.toho-u.ac.jp
Present affiliation
Department of Biomolecular Science, Toho University
Munetaka Iwamura
Position
Visiting Scientist
E-mail
miwamura@sci.u-toyama.ac.jp
Present affiliation
Department of Chemistry, University of Toyama
Shoichi Yamaguchi
Position
Senior Visiting Scientist
E-mail
shoichi@mail.saitama-u.ac.jp
Present affiliation
Department of Technology, Saitama University
Masahisa Osawa
Position
Senior Visiting Scientist
E-mail
m.osawa@nit.ac.jp
Present affiliation
Products Engineering and Environmental Management, Nippon Institute of Technology
Satoshi Takeuchi
Position
Senior Visiting Scientist
E-mail
stake@sci.u-hyogo.ac.jp
Present affiliation
Graduate School of Materials Science, Hyogo University
Masaaki Fujii
Position
Senior Visiting Scientist
E-mail
mfujii@res.titech.ac.jp
Present affiliation
Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Hikaru Kuramochi
Position
Visiting Scientist
E-mail
hkuramochi@ims.ac.jp
Present affiliation
Research Center of Integrative Molecular Systems (CIMoS) Institute for Molecular Science
Former members
Satoshi Takeuchi
Moved to
Professor, Graduate School of Materials Science, Hyogo University
Period
4/1/01 – 3/31/18
Shoichi Yamaguchi
Moved to
Professor, Department of Technology, Saitama University
Period
4/1/02 – 3/31/14
Masahisa Osawa
Moved to
Professor, Applied Chemistry, Nippon Institute of Technology
Period
4/1/12 – 3/31/15
Hikaru Kuramochi
Moved to
Associate professor, Institute for Molecular Science
Period
4/1/10 – 3/31/20
Tatsuya Fujino
Moved to
Department of Urban Liberal arts, Tokyo Metropolitan University
Period
4/1/01 – 2/28/05
Debabrata Mandal
Moved to
Assistant Professor, University of Calcutta, India
Present affiliation
Associate Professor, University of Calcutta, India
Period
4/1/02 – 11/15/02
Satoru Fujiyoshi
Moved to
Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Period
4/1/02 – 3/31/03
Misao Mizuno
Moved to
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Osaka University
Period
4/1/02 – 3/31/05
Haruko Hosoi
Moved to
Department of Biomolecular Science, Toho University
Period
4/1/02 – 2/28/08
Takuya Fujima
Moved to
Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo City University
Period
4/1/03 – 12/31/05
Kentaro Sekiguchi
Moved to
Postdoc, Department of Chemistry, University of Kyoto
Period
11/1/04 – 7/31/09
Munetaka Iwamura
Moved to
Department of Chemistry, University of Toyama
Period
4/1/05 – 5/31/08
Sobhan Sen
Moved to
Assistant Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Present affiliation
Associate Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Period
10/30/05 – 10/29/07
Takumi Nakamura
Moved to
Analysis Technology Center, Fujifilm Corporation
Period
4/1/06 – 12/31/08
Hidekazu Watanabe
Moved to
Postdoc, Institute for Molecular Science
Period
4/1/06 – 3/31/10
Pratik Sen
Moved to
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Present affiliation
Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Period
11/1/06 – 10/31/08
Omar F. Mohammed Abdelsaboor
Moved to
Postdoc, California Institute of Technology, USA
Present affiliation
Assistant Professor, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
Period
11/30/07 – 7/16/08
Zhengrong Wei
Moved to
Post-doctoral researcher, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Present affiliation
Professor, Hubei University, Wuhan, China
Period
10/1/08 – 1/31/14
Sudip Kumal Mondal
Moved to
Lecturer, Burdwan Raj College, India
Period
11/16/08 – 11/9/10
Susanne Fechner
Moved to
Ciba Vision, Germany
Present affiliation
Manager, Alcon, a Novartis company
Period
2/1/09 – 10/14/10
Tatsuya Hattori
Moved to
Advanced Materials R&D Division Materials Technology R&D Laboratories
Period
4/1/09 – 3/31/13
Takuhiro Otosu
Moved to
Research and Development Bureau, Saitama University
Period
4/1/09 – 3/31/15
Jahur Alam Mondal
Moved to
Scientific Officer, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India
Period
5/19/09 – 5/10/11
Achintya Kundu
Moved to
Research Fellow, Korea University, Dept of Chemistry and Center for Multidimensional Spectroscopy, Korea
Present affiliation
Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and short Pulse Spectroscopy
Period
6/1/09 – 4/14/15
Prashant Chandra Singh
Moved to
Assistant Professor, Indian Association of Cultivation of Science (IACS), India
Present affiliation
Associate Professor, Indian Association of Cultivation of Science (IACS), India
Period
5/23/10 – 6/25/13
Linqiang Hua
Moved to
Assistant Research Fellow, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics (WIPM), China
Present affiliation
Chinese Academy of Science, China
Period
11/22/10 – 11/21/11
Matthew Mccullough Sartin
Moved to
Visiting Scientist, The University of Science and Technology of China
Present affiliation
Research Fellow, The University of Science and Technology of China
Period
1/17/11 – 3/31/16
Korenobu Matsuzaki
Moved to
Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany
Period
4/1/11 – 3/31/14
Subhadip Ghosh
Moved to
Assistant Professor, NISER (National Institute of Science and Educational Research), India
Present affiliation
Associate Professor, NISER (National Institute of Science and Educational Research)
Period
5/12/11 – 4/20/12
Aniruddha Adhikari
Moved to
Postdoctoral Fellow, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Present affiliation
Assistant Professor, UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology)
Period
11/1/11 – 5/31/15
Anton Myalitsin
Moved to
Nissan Arc, LTD. Function Analysis Dep. Nanomaterials Analysis Lab.
Period
12/1/11 – 10/31/17
Tomotsumi Fujisawa
Moved to
Assistant Professor, Saga University, Department of Chemistry and Applied Chemistry
Present affiliation
Associated Professor, Saga University, Department of Chemistry and Applied Chemistry
Period
4/1/12 – 4/30/15
Chao-Han Cheng
Moved to
Engineer, Laser and Additive Manufacturing Technology Center, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan
Present affiliation
Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry, National Pingtung University, Taiwan
Period
8/1/12 – 11/17/15
Ryoji Kusaka
Moved to
Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Nuclear Science and Engineering Center, Nuclear Chemistry Division, Radiochemistry Group
Period
4/1/14 – 3/31/16
Ken-ichi Inoue
Moved to
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University
Period
4/1/13 – 10/31/17
Shinya Tahara
Moved to
Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University
Period
4/1/13 – 3/31/18
Shu-hei Urashima
Moved to
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Tokyo University of Science
Period
4/1/14 – 3/31/18
Cassandra Henderson
Moved to
Student, Tokyo University
Period
10/1/14 – 9/30/15
Kotaro Hiramatsu
Moved to
Assistant Professor, Research Centre for Spectrochemistry, School of Science, The University of Tokyo
Period
4/1/16 – 8/31/16
Sanat Ghosh
Moved to
Postdoctoral Fellow, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Period
8/1/17 – 3/31/19
Kazuto Hasegawa
Moved to
Japan Science and Technology Agency
Period
4/1/16 – 3/31/19
Atsushi Sayama
Moved to
Tamron Co., Ltd.
Period
4/1/17 – 3/31/20
Meged El-Kemary
Present affiliation
Tanta University, Egypt
Period
11/1/02 – 12/31/02
Sanford Ruhman
Present affiliation
Professor, Hebrew University, Israel
Period
4/1/06 – 5/31/06
Kankan Bhattacharyya
Present affiliation
Professor, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India
Period
6/1/06 – 6/30/06, 3/1/08 – 3/31/08
Debabrata Mandal
Present affiliation
Assistant Professor, Visva-Bharati University, India
Period
9/29/06 – 10/26/06
Stephen R. Meech
Present affiliation
Professor, University of East Anglia, UK
Period
8/1/07 – 12/31/07
Anindya Datta
Present affiliation
Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Period
5/13/09 – 7/15/09
Artem Bakulin
Present affiliation
Royal Society URF, Imperial Colloege London
Period
4/2/17 – 4/29/17
Guillaume Darsy
Home institution
MSc Student, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Montpellier
Period
4/1/09 – 9/30/09
Jennifer Lauren
Home institution
PhD Student, JILA at University of Colorado, USA
Period
6/21/11 – 8/23/11
Dibyendu Kumar Sasmal
Home institution
PhD Student, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India
Period
9/5/11 – 10/31/11
Dibyendu Kumar Das
Home institution
PhD Student, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India
Period
10/1/11 – 11/30/11
Ashish Jindal
Home institution
MSc Student, Indian Institute of Technology, India
Period
6/1/12 – 7/24/12
Doyk Hwang
Home institution
MSc Student, Seoul National University, Korea
Period
1/20/14 – 2/20/14
Hikaru Mizuno
Home institution
BA Student, Carleton College, USA
Period
6/15/15 – 8/31/15
Rohit Mohan Vaidya
Home institution
MSc Student, University of Mumbai, India
Period
5/16/16 – 11/12/16
Stephanie Helene Jacqueline Devineau
Home institution
Post-doctoral Researcher, Ecole Normale Superieure, France
Period
6/16/15 – 9/6/15
Feng Wei
Home institution
Assistant Researcher, Jianghan University, China
Period
11/20/17 – 1/31/18
Alea Miako Tokita
Home institution
MSc Student, University of Göttingen, Germany
Period
11/1/19 – 12/12/19
Misa Kayama
Period
4/1/02 – 3/31/03
Akiko Zushi
Period
4/1/03 – 4/30/08
Momoko Emori
Period
4/1/08 – 10/31/09
Kazue Akiyama
Period
9/30/09 – 3/31/11
Sari Osato
Period
1/27/11 – 3/31/17
Kaoru Hara
Period
4/1/11 – 4/30/13
Tomoe Michiyuki
Period
3/16/17 – 6/30/19