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Satoshi Takeuchi

	Position:	Senior Research Scientist
	E-mail:	stake@riken.jp

Education and professional positions:

• 1990.3. B.Sc in Physics, Univ. of Tokyo
• 1995.3. Ph.D. in Physics, Univ. of Tokyo
• 1995.4. JSPS Postdoctoral fellow
• 1995.5. Research associate, Institute for Molecular Science
• 2002.1. Research scientist, Molecular Spectroscopy Lab., RIKEN
• 2004.4. Senior research scientist, Molecular Spectroscopy Lab., RIKEN

Research interests:

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

Selected papers:

1. Satoshi Takeuchi, Sanford Ruhman, Takao Tsuneda, Mahito, Chiba, Tetsuya Taketsugu, Tahei Tahara, "Spectroscopic tracking of structural evolution in ultrafast stilbene photoisomerization", Science, 322, 1073-1077 (2008).
2. M. Iwamura, S. Takeuchi, T. Tahara, "Real-time observation of the photoinduced structural change of bis-2,9-dimethyl-1,10-phenanthroline copper (I) by femtosecond fluorescence spectroscopy: A realistic potential curve of the Jahn-Teller distortion", Journal of American Chemical Society, 129, 5248-5256 (2007).
3. S. Takeuchi, T. Tahara, "The answer to concerted versus step-wise controversy for the double proton transfer mechanism of 7-azaindole dimer in solution", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of U.S.A., 104, 5285-5290 (2007).
4. S. Takeuchi, T. Tahara, "Coherent nuclear wavepacket motions in ultrafast excited-state intramolecular proton transfer: Sub-30-fs resolved pump-probe absorption spectroscopy of 10-hydroxybenzo[h]quinoline in solution", Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 109, 10199-10207 (2005).

Awards

1. Morino Science Award, "Advanced spectroscopic study of structural dynamics of condensed phase reactive molecules", August 29th, 2008.
2. The Award for the Young Distinguished Scientist, The Japan Society for Molecular Science. "Real time structural tracking of reacting molecules by ultrafast time-domain vibrational spectroscopy", September 18th, 2007.

Academic societies

• Japan Society for Molecular Science
• The Chemical Society of Japan
• The Japanese Photochemistry Association
• The Spectroscopical Society of Japan
• The Physical Society of Japan
• The Japan Society of Applied Physics