Prof. Bunsho OHTANI
Prof. Bunsho OHTANI received his Ph. D. degree in Kyoto University in 1985, he Then, he became an assistant professor in the university. In 1996, he was promoted to an associate professor in Division of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University and then got a full professor position in Catalysis Research Center (presently Institute for Catalysis), Hokkaido University in 1998. For education of graduate students, Professor Ohtani's laboratory belongs to Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University since 1999. He was awarded 2005 Scientific Achievement Award of The Electrochemical Society of Japan, The Japanese Photochemistry Association Award 2006 and Catalysis Society of Japan Award for 2013 for his works on photocatalysis.
Since then he has been studying photocatalysis and relating topics for more than 30 years and published more than 250 original papers (h-index: 72).