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Tahei Tahara

	Position:	Chief Scientist, Director of Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory
	E-mail:	tahei@riken.jp

Education and professional positions:

• 1984.3. B. Sc., Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo
• 1986.3. M. Sc., Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo
• 1989.3 D. Sc., Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo
• 1989.4. Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo
• 1990.4. Research Associate, Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology (KAST)
• 1995.1. Associate Professor, Institute for Molecular Science (IMS)
• Also, Associate Professor, Graduate University for Advanced Studies
• 2001.4. Chief Scientist, Director of Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory, RIKEN
• Also at the moment,
• Visiting Professor, Saitama University
• Visiting Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Research interests

• Molecular science with advanced spectroscopy

Awards

• Award of Research Foundation for Opto-Science and Technology (1995)
• Morino Science Award (2000)
• TRVS Outstanding Young Researcher Award (2001)
• IBM Japan Science Prize (2004)
• The JSPS Prize (2006)
• Commendation for Major Contribution (A), Chief Scientist Assembly, RIKEN (2008)
• CSJ Award for Creative Work (2012)

Academic activity (international)

• Editorial Board, J. Chem. Phys. (2013.1-2015.12)
• Editorial Advisory Board, Chemical Physics (2012.1-2014.12)
• Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Physical Chemistry (2010.1-2012.12)
• International Advisory Committee, International Conference on Time-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy (TRVS)
• International Steering Committee, International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy (ICORS)
• International Steering Committee, the Asian Spectroscopy Conference (ASC)

Organization of academic meeting (international)

• Organizer, Mini-Symposium on Time-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy: Future Aspect of Molecular Science, Okazaki, Japan (2000)
• Local Organize Committee, 10th International Conference on Time-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy (TRVS 2001), Okazaki, Japan (2001)
• Session Organizer, “Time- and Space-Resovled Vibrational Spectroscopy: State-of-Art and Photochemical Application”, 21st International Conference on Photochemistry (ICP21), Nara, Japan (2003)
• Organizer, Japan-Korea Joint Seminar of Frontier of Advanced Molecular Science: Spectroscopy of Ultra-Resolution in Time, Space and Energy, Wako, Japan (2003)
• Organizer, International Workshop on Time-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy (IWTS-2006), Wako, Japan (2006)
• Treasurer, 20th International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy (ICORS 2006), Yokohama, Japan (2006)
• Co-Chair, Session of Ultrafast Phenomena, CLEO-Pacific RIM 2007, Seoul, Korea (2007)
• Co-organizer, Okazaki Conference on Molecular Science and Chemical Biology of Biomolecular Function, Okazaki, Japan (2007)
• Local Organizing Committee, 4th International Conference on Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy (CMDS 2008), Kyoto, Japan (2008)
• Local Organizing Committee, Molecular & Ionic Cluster Conference 2010 (MIC2010), Niigata, Japan (2010)
• Symposium Organizer, “Molecular Spectroscopy at Interfaces: Advances and Applications”, FACSS 2011, Reno, NV, USA (October 2 – 6, 2011)
• Chairperson, 16th International Conference on Time-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy (TRVS2013), 2013, Japan

Academic societies

• Chemical Society of Japan
• Japan Society for Molecular Science
• Spectroscopic Society of Japan
• American Chemical Society