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Hikaru Kuramochi

	Position:	Research Scientist
	E-mail:	h.kuramochi@riken.jp

Education and professional positions:

2007.3. B.Sc. Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2008.9. Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering,
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden (~2009.9)
2013.3. Ph.D. Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2013.4. Special Postdoctoral Fellow, Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory, RIKEN
2016.4. Research Scientist, Ultrafast Spectroscopy Research Team, RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics (RAP)

Research interests:

• Time-resolved spectroscopy
• Nonlinear spectroscopy
• Ultrashort pulse generation

Selected papers:

• "Probing the early stages of photoreception in photoactive yellow protein with ultrafast time-domain Raman spectroscopy" H. Kuramochi, S. Takeuchi, K. Yonezawa, H. Kamikubo, M. Kataoka, T. Tahara, Nat. Chem. in press (2017).
• "Femtosecond time-resolved impulsive stimulated Raman spectroscopy using sub-7-fs pulses: Apparatus and applications." H. Kuramochi, S. Takeuchi, T. Tahara, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 87, 043107 (2016).
• "Role of coherent low-frequency motion in excited-state proton transfer of green fluorescent protein studied by time-resolved impulsive stimulated Raman spectroscopy" T. Fujisawa, H. Kuramochi, H. Hosoi, S. Takeuchi, T. Tahara, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 138, 3942 (2016).
• "Ultrafast structural evolution of photoactive yellow protein chromophore revealed by ultraviolet resonance femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy." H. Kuramochi, S. Takeuchi, T. Tahara, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 3, 2025 (2012).

Awards

1. The Spectroscopical Society of Japan Award for Young Scientists (2017) for "Development of ultrafast time-domain Raman spectroscopy using extremely short pulses and its application to photo-responsive proteins". May 2017.
2. The 8th Research Incentive Award of RIKEN for "Development of ultrafast time-domain Raman spectroscopy using sub-7-fs pulses and its application to photo-responsive proteins". March 2017.

Academic societies

• The Chemical Society of Japan
• Japan Society for Molecular Science
• The Spectroscopical Society of Japan