Invited Speakers

Prof. Teruaki HAYAKAWA

Teruaki Hayakawa is a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology. He received his B.S. (1995), M.S. (1997), and Ph.D. (2000) from Yamagata University (Prof. Mitsuru Ueda). In 2000 he joined the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) as a researcher and moved to the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2003. He is currently an Associate Dean of the School of Materials and Chemical Technology. He has been Vice President of the Society of Photopolymer Science and Technology since 2022. His research interests include organic and polymer synthetic chemistry, especially for polycondensation, living anionic polymerization, 3D continuous nanostructured materials, and dimension-dependent material properties of nanoscopic macromolecular structures, which are toward advanced lithography and directed self-assembly, thermally conductive liquid crystalline epoxy resins, low dielectric loss materials.

Prof. Masami KAMIGAITO

Masami Kamigaito received his B.S. (1988), M.S. (1990), and Ph.D. (1993) degrees from Kyoto University under the direction of Prof. Toshinobu Higashimura on design of initiating systems and nature of the growing species in living cationic polymerization. After conducting postdoctoral research with Prof. Mitsuo Sawamoto on living radical polymerization, he joined the faculty of Kyoto University in 1995, where he was promoted to an Associate Professor in 1999. In 2003, he moved to Nagoya University as an Associate Professor working with Prof. Yoshio Okamoto on stereospecific living radical polymerization and was promoted to professor in 2004. During 1997–1998, he was a visiting scholar at Stanford University working with Prof. Robert M. Waymouth on coordination copolymerization of ethylene and styrene. He is the recipient of the 2001 Arthur K. Doolittle Award of the ACS PMSE Division and the Award of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan, in 2020. His research interests include controlled polymerizations, sequence-regulated polymers, precision polymer synthesis, and sustainable polymers.

 Prof. Yushu MATSUSHITA

Yushu Matsushita graduated from Nagoya University in 1977, and he finished graduate course of the School of Engineering at Nagoya University in 1982, he received PhD degree from that school in 1984. He joined the faculty member of the School of Engineering, Nagoya University, as an assistant professor in 1982, and promoted to a Lecturer in 1987. He moved to the Institute of the Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, as an Associate professor in 1994. And he returned to Nagoya University in 1999 as a full professor. Then, he served as a dean of the School of Engineering (2013-2015) and also served as a vice president for ten years in total at Nagoya University. His major is the morphology control of complex polymer systems such as block copolymers and polymer blends using hand-made well-defined polymers.

Makoto Ouchi received his Ph.D. degree at Kyoto University in 2001.  He then joined Toyota Central R&D Labs to pursue the project of development of poly(lactic acid)-based automobile resin.  In 2004, he moved to Kyoto University to start his academic carrier as Assistant Professor.  He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2010 and thereafter appointed a PRESTO researcher of Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) for the project of “Molecular Technology” (2013–2017).  In August 2017, he was promoted to Professor at department of Polymer Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University.  His current research interests is precision syntheses of polymers, particularly sequence-controlled polymers, topological polymers, and triggering degradable polymers as well as the properties/functions derived from the controlled structures.

Prof. Keiji TANAKA

Keiji Tanaka is a Distinguished Professor at the Department of Applied Chemistry, a Director at Center for Polymer Interface and Molecular Adhesion Science, and a vice Dean at Graduate School of Engineering in Kyushu University, Japan. He received his B.S. (1993), and Ph.D. (1997) degrees in Polymer Chemistry from the Department of Applied Chemistry, Kyushu University. Then, he moved to Department of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to be a Research Associate. In 2000, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor at Kyushu University and was promoted to a Professor in 2009. He is also a Program Manager, Japan Science and Technology Agency. His research centers on the structure and physical properties of polymers in confined systems, including surfaces, interfaces, and thin films. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Prof. Shigeru YAMAGO

Shigeru Yamago received his B.S. and Ph.D. in chemistry from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1986 and 1991, respectively, as a synthetic organic chemist. He became an assistant professor at the same institute in 1991, moved to Kyoto University in 1995 as an assistant professor, Osaka City University in 2003 as a full professor, and Kyoto University in 2006 as a full professor. His research interests include synthetic organic and polymer chemistry, radical chemistry, and materials science.

Prof. Naoko YOSHIE

Dr. Naoko Yoshie received her MS (1990) and PhD (1993) in Polymer Science from Tokyo Institute of Technology. In 1990, she began an academic career as Research Associate at Department of Biomolecular Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, where she actively studied biodegradable and/or biobased polyesters. She joined Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo as an associate professor in 2001 and promoted to a full professor in 2010, where she expanded her research area to sustainable design of polymers with dynamic bonds, including recycling, self-healing, self-recovering and so on. Since 2017, she is Chairperson for Polymer Chemistry Subcommittee of Chemistry Committee, Science Council of Japan. She is also engaging in promoting diversity and inclusion of the university as Vice President.

Dr. Redouane BORSALI

Before his actual position, he served as the Director of CERMAV (Grenoble) and the group leader of polymer physico-chemistry group at Bordeaux (LCPO). He earned his PhD in polymer sciences at Louis Pasteur University at Strasbourg and spent a post-doctoral position at the Max-Planck-Institute in Mainz, Germany. He also was a visiting Professor at Stanford University, California, USA & and Visiting Scientist at IBM, Almaden, CA, USA.

Expertise: Self-assemblies of Carbohydrate-based block copolymers (BCP) systems, leading to:

• Nanostructured Thin films: highlight of properties/applications in nano-electronics including: (smart surfaces, nanolithography, photovoltaic, memory transistors, HR-biosensors, etc.…), Directed Self-Assembly (DSA)

• Nanoparticles (micelles) & Polymersomes & their properties/applications in cosmetic/biomedical

Dr. Anne-Caroline GENIX

Anne-Caroline Genix is associate professor at University of Montpellier since 2006, in the Soft Matter group of Laboratoire Charles Coulomb at University of Montpellier. She received her PhD in physical chemistry of polymers from the University Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC, Paris) and performed a two-year post-doc in San Sebastian in the group headed by Juan Colmenero. The main focus of her research is on polymers and polymer nanocomposites, with a particular interest in structure and dynamics probed by scattering techniques (neutrons and X-rays) and dielectric spectroscopy. In 2018, she spent a sabbatical year in Alexei Sokolov's group based at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where she worked on the interfacial polymer layer properties of nanocomposites with attractive interactions.

Dr Frédéric PERUCH

Frédéric PERUCH received his PhD in Polymer Chemistry from the University of Bordeaux in 1998. After a postdoctoral stay at University College in Dublin, he became Junior CNRS researcher at the Institut Charles Sadron, Strasbourg in 1999. In 2006, he moved to the LCPO-Bordeaux, where he became a Senior CNRS researcher in 2013. His current research interests include ring-opening polymerisations (ionic, organocatalyzed and enzymatic), depolymerisation of biopolymers, and elastomeric polymeric materials (natural rubber, reversible networks). He has co-authored 95 publications, 3 book chapters and 3 patents.

Dr. Virginie PONSINET

Virginie Ponsinet obtained her PhD in Paris at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6. She worked on hybrid colloidal systems involving nanoparticles, surfactant-based complex fluids, solid and dispersed phases of block copolymers. She has performed research in the Collège de France, Paris, France, the Technion, Univ. of Technology, Haifa, Israel, the Rhodia Research Center in Princeton, USA, and the East China Univ. of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China. She now works in Bordeaux University on colloid- and polymer-based self-assembled functional nanomaterials and metamaterials.

Dr. Jutta RIEGER

Jutta Rieger received her PhD from the University of Liège (Belgium) and the University of Grenoble (France), where she developed functional ε-caprolactone-based polymer architectures. After a short postdoctoral fellowship on non-wovens at ICMMO (Orsay, France) in collaboration with Macopharma, she joined in 2007 the Laboratoire de Chimie de Polymères (ECP) at UPMC (now Sorbonne University) and started working on RAFT polymerization in heterogeneous media. Since 2009 she is an independent CNRS researcher at the Institut Parisien de Chimie Moléculaire (IPCM) in the same institution, where she was promoted ‘CNRS Research Director’ in 2021. Her research focuses on the synthesis of functional polymeric materials using homogeneous or heterogeneous controlled radical polymerization processes. She develops in particular the polymerization-induced self-assembly (PISA) technology. She has published more than 80 articles, 5 book chapters and 3 patents.

Dr. Raluca TIRON

Raluca Tiron is Research Director in Leti. She joined Leti’s lithography group in 2004, working on e-beam lithography. In 2005, she integrates Leti’s Resist Expertise Center, where she worked on advanced lithography process development, resist characterization and mechanisms comprehension in 193 nm lithography. Starting in 2008, her research interest focused on directed self-assembly (DSA) of block copolymers and bio inspired nano-patterning. Starting in 2019, she managed people and research in the field of advanced lithography including immersion, imagers, alternative and computational lithography as the head of the advanced lithography laboratory. Since 2022 she is the head of the Patterning department of the Technological Platforms Division in Leti. Dr. Tiron has been Leti project leader in several national and European projects. She has authored and coauthored more than 80 papers in international reviews and holds more than 20 patents. Dr. Tiron received her PhD degree in quantum physics from Joseph Fourier University France in 2004.