Tohoku University, Japan
Kazuo Takimiya received his Ph. D. in 1994 from Hiroshima University under the supervision of Professor Fumio Ogura. Thereafter, he joined Professor Tetsuo Otsubo’s research group at Hiroshima University, where he studied organic conductors/superconductors. After returning from his stay in Professor Jan Becher’s group at Odense University, Denmark (1997-1998), he was promoted to associate professor in 2003 and to a full professor in 2007 at Hiroshima University. In 2013, his group moved to RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS). He was then appointed as a professor at Tohoku University in 2017. His current interests include the synthesis, characterization, and application of organic semiconductors, particularly heteroaromatic-based small-molecule semiconductors, in field-effect transistors, photovoltaics, and thermoelectric devices.