Satoshi Kawata

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The result was Satoshi Kawata(born 1 October 1951), is a scientist based in Japan who is active in nanotechnology, photonics, plasmonics, and other areas of applied physics. He is a Professor of Department of Applied Physics at Osaka University. He is also a Chief Scientist at RIKEN and Chairman of NanoPhoton Corporation.

Biography

Career

Kawata studied under Yoshiki Ichioka and received his Bachelor's degree in 1974, his Masters degree in 1976 and his doctorate from Osaka University in 1979.

After his experience as a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science post-doctoral fellow at Osaka University and as a Research associate at the University of California, Irvine, he joined the Department of Applied Physics at Osaka University as a faculty member and studied under Prof.Shigeo MInami. In 1993, he was promoted to full professor, and served as the Director of Frontier Research Center, from 2001 to 2003, and is currently the Director of the Photonics Advanced Research Center. Since 2002, Kawata is jointly at RIKEN as a Chief Scientist of the Nanophotonics Laboratory. He has assisted Takahiro Ode to start the company NanoPhoton Corporation in 2003, which manufactures laser-scanning Raman and SHG microscopes and related devices.

Kawata is known for his work in nanophotonics (study of the interaction between photons and nanostructures) next to Motoichi Ohtsu in University of Tokyo. He has contributed to the community via a number of inventions, publications, and conference organizations in fields including near-infrared spectroscopy, laser-scanning microscopy, near-field optics, plasmonics, biophotonics, laser nanofabrication and signal recovery. One of his research projects was featured in the “Guiness World Records 2004” as the smallest laser sculpture, appearing with a photo and was also published in a textbook of mathematics for junior high school in the United States. He has also published over 25 books.

Kawata has served as the President of the Spectroscopical Society of Japan from 2004 to 2007, an Editor for Optics Communications from 2000 till present, Honorary Professor at Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry in the Chinese Academy of Science, a Program Officer of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and a joint professor at the Department of Physics at Gakushuin University. He is a fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA), Institute of Physics (IOP), the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) and the Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP).

Awards

Kawata received one of the Medals of Honour (Japan) with purple ribbon, which is awarded by the Emperor of Japan in 2007, the Minister’s Award for Science and Technology by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Japan in 2005, Shimadzu Award in 2003, Ichimura Award in 1998, Leonardo da Vinci International Art Award Excellence, Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton in 1997 and the Japan IBM Science Award in 1996.

External links

* [http://www.skawata.com/ Prof. Kawata's Cyber lab. ]
* [http://lasie.ap.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/home.html Laboratory for Scientific Instrumentation and Engineering, Osaka University]
* [http://optsun.riken.go.jp/ Nanophotonics Laboratory & Metamaterials Laboratory, RIKEN]
* [http://www.nanophoton.jp/eng/index.html NanoPhoton Corporation]
* [http://parc.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/english/ Photonics Advanced Research Center Osaka University]
* [http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505711/description?navopenmenu=1 Optics Communications, Elsevier]
* [http://www.nanophotonics.info/eng/ The Research Institute of Nanophotonics (RINPS)]

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