Osamu Ishitani PhD

Dr. Osamu Ishitani is a Professor at the Department of Chemistry of Tokyo Institute of Technology. He took his Dr. Eng. at Osaka University in 1987. After he spent three months as a visiting researcher at the Hahn-Meitner Institute, Berlin (Prof. Dr. W. Schnabel), he joined National Institute for Resources and Environment in Japan. He became a senior researcher at the same institute in 1993. He spent as a visiting researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Prof. T.J. Meyer) for one and half years and then at the University of Nottingham (Prof. J.J. Turner) for three months between 1993 and 1995.

Just after he returned to Japan, he became an associate professor at Saitama University in 1995. He moved to Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2002, and then he became a full professor in 2006. His main interests are artificial photosynthesis, photocatalytic CO2 reduction, photochemical properties of transition metal complexes, and photo-functional metal complexes. He reserved awards, including the Japanese Photochemistry Association Award for 2007 and Seiichi Tejima Research Award in 2013. He has been an associate editor of Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, a vice president of the Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry, and an international scientific committee member of some international and domestic conferences such as ISPPCC, ICCDU, and IPS.