Yukihiro Ozaki

Yukihiro Ozaki obtained his Ph.D. (1978) in chemistry from Osaka University. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Kwansei Gakuin University in Sanda, Japan. He has been active in the research of a variety of molecular spectroscopy, covering IR, Raman, NIR, and far-ultraviolet (FUV) spectroscopy. Prof. Ozaki has received many awards including the 1998 Tomas Hirschfeld Award, the 2002 Spectroscopical Society of Japan Award, the 2005 Science andTechnology Award of Japanese Government (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology), the Gerald Birth Award, and the Bomen-Michelson Award. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Chemical Society of Japan, and the Society for Applied Spectroscopy.George C. Schatz is Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry and of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University. He received his undergraduate degree in chemistry at Clarkson University and a Ph.D at Caltech. He was a postdoc at MIT and has been at Northwestern since 1976. Schatz has published three books and more than 800 papers. Schatz is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Academy ofQuantum Molecular Sciences, and he has been Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Physical Chemistry since 2005. Recent awards include the Debye and Langmuir Awards of the ACS, the S F Boys-A Rahman Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Hirschfelder Award of the University of Wisconsin. He is aFellow of the APS, RSC, ACS, and the AAAS.Duncan Graham is Research Professor of Chemistry and Head of Department for Pure and Applied Chemistry at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, having being appointed there as a lecturer in 2002 and then as a Chair in 2004. He is currently Chair of the Editorial Board of Analyst and President elect of the Analytical Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He has been awarded numerous awards for his research including the RSC’s SAC Silver Medal (2004), the RSC’s Corday Morgan Prize(2009), a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2010), the Craver Award from the Coblentz Society (2012), and the Fellows Award from the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (2012). He was elected to the fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2008.He completed a Ph.D. in organic chemistry atthe University of Edinburgh (1996), and his interests are in developing new diagnostic assays based on nanoparticles and spectroscopy with target molecules including DNA, RNA, proteins, and small molecule biomarkers.Tamitake Itoh is currently a Senior Researcher of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan. He completed his Ph.D. (2002) at Osaka University under the supervision of Prof. Hiroshi Masuhara and Prof. Tsuyoshi Asahi. Through postdoctoral research positions from 2002 to 2005, he worked at Kwansei Gakuin University. In April of 2005 he became a Researcher in AIST, and in April of 2010 he was promoted to Senior Researcher. In 2012, as an additionalposition he was appointed as visiting Associate Professor at Nagoya University.