Tokyo Institute of Technology Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials Konishi Lab.

Gen-ichi KONISHI was born in Lyon in 1971. He received his BSc degree from Osaka Prefecture University under the supervision of Professor Kazuhiko Mizuno in 1995 and his PhD from Kyoto University, Department of Polymer Chemistry, in 2000 under the supervision of Professor Yoshiki Chujo. Immediately thereafter he joined Shinshu University School of Medicine, where he worked as an assistant professor for 2 years in the Division of Physiology. He became an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Kanazawa University in 2002 and was promoted to associate professor in the Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials, (now, Department of Chemical Science and Engineering) Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2006. He was appointed JST PRESTO researcher (Element Strategy; mentor: Professor Hideo Hosono). His research interests include photochemistry, fluorescent dyes, bio-imaging, redox-photosensitised reactions (photoredox catalysis), polymer synthesis, optical materials, drug discovery, and physiology of the autonomic nervous system.