Confirmed Invited Speakers

Updated on Nov. 8, 2014

Akira Fujishima (Tokyo University of Science, Japan) with special lecture

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Ei-ichi Negishi (Purdue University & JST, Japan) with special lecture

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Ryu Abe (Kyoto University, Japan)
"Z-scheme type water splitting under visible light"

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Shin-ichi Adachi (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Japan)
"Capturing photocatalysts at work by picosecond X-ray pulses"

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Joel Ager (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
"Integrated photoelectrochemical solar hydrogen generation"

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Vincent Artero (University Grenoble Alpes and CEA-Grenoble, France)
"Bioinspired catalysts and molecular-engineered electrode materials for hydrogen
evolution"

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Yutaka Amao (Osaka City University, Japan)
"Visible-light induced coversion of CO₂ to chemical with sensitizer-enzyme hybrid artificial photosynthesis system"

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Gary Brudvig (Yale University, USA)
"Photochemical water oxidation for solar fuel production"

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Sebastiano Campagna (University of Messina, Italy)
"Photoinduced water oxidation using self-assembled photosensitizer-catalyst systems"

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Richard Cogdell (University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK)
"How to use DNA origami to construct 3D light harvesting arrays"

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Leroy Cronin (University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK)
"New paradigms for water splitting using redox mediators"

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Huub de Groot (University of Leiden, Netherlands)
"Responsive matrices for solar to fuel conversion: Trading time for efficiency"

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Kazunari Domen (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
"Water splitting on some semiconductor photocatalysts"

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James Durrant (Imperial College of London, UK)
"Charge carrier dynamics in metal oxide photoelectrodes"

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Thomas Faunce (Australian National University, Australia)
"Progress towards a global project on synthetic photosynthesis"

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Etsuko Fujita (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA)
"From photochemical CO₂ reduction to CO₂ hydrogenan by solar-productioed H₂"

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Shunichi Fukuzumi (Osaka University, Japan)
"Hydrogen peroxide produced from water and dioxygen as a promising solar fuel"

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Devens Gust (Arizona State University, USA)
"Bio-inspired systems for solar fuels"

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Leif Hammarstrom (Uppsala University, Sweden)
"Mechanisms of artificial photosynthesis"

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Hideki Hashimoto (Osaka City University, Japan)
"The secret of highly efficient light-harvesting antenna found in brown algal
photosynthesis"

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Yoshiki Higuchi (University of Hyogo, Japan)
"Structure, function and evolution of [NiFe]-Hydrogenases"

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Craig Hill (Emory University, USA)
"Developing catalysts for artificial photosynthesis"

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Neyde Yukie Murakami Iha (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil)
"Artificial Photosynthesis via Dye Sensitized Solar Cells"

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Shinji Inagaki (Toyota Central R & D Laboratories, Japan)
"Light-harvesting molecular photocatalysis based on periodic mesoporous
organosilicas"

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Haruo Inoue (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan)
"The key-steps for artificial photosynthesios: How can we do an oxidative activation of water by visible light?"

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Kazuhito Inoue (Kanagawa University, Japan)
"Genetic engineering of the heterocyst-forming cyanobacteria to enhance hydrogen production from sunlight and water"

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Hiroshi Ishikita (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
"Proton transfer reactions near the Mn₄CaO₅ cluster in photosystem II"

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Osamu Ishitani (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
"Photocatalytic reduction of a low concentration of CO₂ "

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Henrik Junge (University of Rostock, Germany)
"Photocatalytic generation of chemical energy carriers from light, water and carbon
dioxide"

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Nobuo Kamiya (Osaka City University, Japan)
"High-resokution and low-dose X-ray crystal structure of photosystem II"

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Sang Ook Kang (Korea University, Korea)
"Photocatalytic CO₂ reduction from Inorganic/organic hybrid systems"

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Kasper Kjaer (Lund University, Sweden)
"From solar light to electrons and fuel, the fundamental processes"

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Shin-ya Koshihara (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
"Ultrafast carrier dynamics in nano-scale space observed by femtosecond
time-resolved Photo-emission electron microscope (fs-PEEM)"

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Clifford Kubiak (University of California San Diego, USA)
"Carbon dioxide reduction by earth abundant catalysts in artificial photosynthesis: Mechanistic insights and challenges"

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Akihiko Kudo (Tokyo University of Science, Japan)
"Photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical water splitting using metal oxide materials"

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Can Li (Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China)
"Hybrid system of natural and artificial photosynthesis for solar overall water splitting"

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Wolfgang Lubitz (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Germany)
"Light-induced water splitting and hydrogen conversion in Nature: Basis for artificial photosynthesis"

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Frederick M. MacDonnell (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
"Depp Photoreduction of Carbon Dioxide with Ruthenium Chromophores and Pyridinium Cocatalysts"

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Shigeyuki Masaoka (Institute for Molecular Science, Japan)
"Molecular catalysts designed for water oxidation"

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Thomas Meyer (University of North Carolina, USA)
"Artificial photosynthesis. Where are we now? Where can we go?"

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Hiroaki Misawa (Hokkaido University, Japan)
"Plasmon-induced artificial photosynthesis systems"

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Takeshi Morikawa (Toyota Central R & D Laboratories, Japan)
"Solar synthesis of organic compounds from CO₂ and H₂O using
a semiconductor/metal-complex hybrid system"

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James Muckerman (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA)
"Photo- and electrochemical water oxidation: new water oxidation chemistry of ruthenium complexes with polypyridyl ligands"

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Ryuhei Nakamura (Riken, Japan)
"Insight into water oxidation by manganese oxides"

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Yoshinori Naruta (Chubu University, Japan)
"Photochemical water splitting and CO₂ reduction with inorganic-organic hybrid
systems"

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Daniel Nocera (Harvard University, USA)
"The artificial leaf"

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Takumi Noguchi (Nagoya University, Japan)
"The mechanism of photosynthetic water oxidation in photosystem II and the
application to artificial photosynthesis"

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Ken Onda (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
"Time-resolved infrared spectroscopy for studying photo-energy conversion systems"

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Hiroshi Onishi (Kobe University, Japan)
"The surface science of doped NaTaO₃ photocatalysts"

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Bruno Robert (CEA Saclay, France)
"Molecular mechanisms underlying ultrafast excitation energy transfers"

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Ken Sakai (Kyushu University, Japan)
"Multifunctional molecular devices for photoinduced hydrogen evolution from water"

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Ryota Sakamoto (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
"Bottom-up molecular wires and sheets for artificial photosynthesis"

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Kazuhiro Sayama
(National Institute of Advanced Industrial Scienceand Technology, Japan)
"Solar hydrogen production using oxide semiconductor photoelectrodes, photocatalysts
and redox mediators"

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Tooru Setoyama (Mitsubishi Chemical, Japan)
"What is the realistic strategy for artificial photosynthesis to contribute to the
mitigation of climate change in 21st century?"

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Jian-Ren Shen (Okayama University, Japan)
"Molecular mechanism of light-induced water oxidation in photosynthesis based on the
atomic structure of photosystem II"

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Licheng Sun (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden and Dalian University of Technology, China)
"Functional devices for water splitting based on molecular catalysts and nano
materials"

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Hitoshi Tamiaki (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
"Artificial light-harvesting antenna systems using semi-synthetic chlorophyll
derivatives"

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Koji Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan)
"Photo- and electrochemical CO₂ reduction aimed at a C1 building block of organic materials"

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Tsunehiro Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan)
"Photocatalytic CO₂ splitting into CO and O₂ in aqueous solution"

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John Turner (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA)
"Progress in solar water-splitting through photoelectrochemistry"

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Rienk van Grondelle (Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
"Photosynthesis: The Quantum design of a light trap"

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Michael Wasielewski (Northwestern University, USA)
"Integrated molecular systems for artificial photosynthesis"

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Masayuki Yagi (Niigata University, Japan)
"Development of a new series of complex catalysts for water oxidation toward artificial
photosynthesis"

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Kyung Byung Yoon (Sogang University, Korea)
"Novel HER and OER electrodes with extraordinary performances and low price"

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Satoshi Yotsuhashi (Panasonic Corporation, Japan)
"CO₂ conversion to hydrocarbons in GaN-based photo-electrochemical system"