Shu Seki PhD

Professor Shu Seki graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1991 and received a PhD from Osaka University in 2001. As a visiting scientist, he joined the Chemistry Division of the Argonne National Laboratory (USA) in 1995, and Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) in 2000. He was appointed as professor of chemistry at the Graduate School of Engineering of Osaka University in 2008 and has, since 2015, held the position of professor of physical chemistry in the Department of Molecular Engineering, Kyoto University.

His research interests focus on condensed matter physical chemistry, particularly of conjugated molecular/macromolecular materials, as well as spectroscopy techniques with a variety of electromagnetic wave probes.

He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2015 and has published over 450 papers in journals such as Science, Nature Materials, Nature Chemistry, etc. until 2020.