{"id":3015,"date":"2025-09-12T10:41:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T01:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.tagen.tohoku.ac.jp\/?page_id=3015"},"modified":"2026-04-01T18:26:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:26:02","slug":"urex-tohoku","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.tagen.tohoku.ac.jp\/en\/urex-tohoku\/","title":{"rendered":"International Research Excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-size:24px\">Principal Investigators<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-center\" style=\"grid-template-columns:30% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.tagen.tohoku.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250912_takuetsu_janek.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2994 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.tagen.tohoku.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250912_takuetsu_janek.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www2.tagen.tohoku.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250912_takuetsu_janek-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Janek\" style=\"font-size:28px\">J\u00fcrgen Janek<br>Distinguished Professor <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">Justus Liebig University Giessen (Germany) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uni-giessen.de\/de\/fbz\/zentren\/lama\/team\/sammlung\/wiss_sortiert\/i-p\/janek_juergen\">\ud83d\udd17<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-small-font-size\">&#8211; Research Areas &#8211;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"font-size:14px\">\u30fbMaterials for energy\/sensor technologies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:14px\">\u30fbElectrode kinetics of solid electrolytes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:14px\">\u30fbElectrochemical surface control<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:14px\">\u30fbElectrochemistry and plasmaphysics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:14px\">\u30fbBioanalytic using TOF-SIMS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-small-font-size\">&#8211; Lab Members &#8211;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"font-size:14px\">Kotaro Yoshida,  Assistant Professor<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:30% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.tagen.tohoku.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260305_takuetsu_Terrones-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3331 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.tagen.tohoku.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260305_takuetsu_Terrones-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www2.tagen.tohoku.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260305_takuetsu_Terrones-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www2.tagen.tohoku.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260305_takuetsu_Terrones-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www2.tagen.tohoku.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260305_takuetsu_Terrones.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Terrones\" style=\"font-size:30px\">Mauricio Terrones<br>Visiting Professor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pennsylvania State University (USA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matse.psu.edu\/directory\/mauricio-terrones\">\ud83d\udd17<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-small-font-size\">&#8211; Research Areas &#8211;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"font-size:14px\">\u30fbCarbon nanomaterials (carbon nanotubes, graphene, and 2D materials)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:14px\">\u30fbSynthesis and theory of nanomaterials<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:14px\">\u30fbCharacterization and in-situ studies of nanomaterials<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:14px\">\u30fbDefect engineering in nanomaterials<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:14px\">\u30fbNanomaterial-based devices and sensor applications<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-center\" style=\"grid-template-columns:30% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.tagen.tohoku.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250912_takuetsu_degrado.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2995 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.tagen.tohoku.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250912_takuetsu_degrado.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www2.tagen.tohoku.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250912_takuetsu_degrado-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"DeGrado\" style=\"font-size:28px\">William F. DeGrado<br>Distinguished Professor <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">University of California San Francisco (USA) <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.ucsf.edu\/william.degrado\">\ud83d\udd17<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-small-font-size\">&#8211; Research Areas &#8211;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"font-size:14px\">\u30fbDe novo protein design (a term he pioneered for artificial protein design)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:14px\">\u30fbMembrane protein design<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:14px\">\u30fbStructure-based design of small-molecule therapeutics for human diseases<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:14px\">\u30fbPeptide\u2013membrane interactions and development of host-defense peptide mimetics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:14px\">\u30fbDevelopment of chemical tools and probes to study protein structure, dynamics, and interactions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-small-font-size\">&#8211; Lab Members &#8211;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul style=\"font-size:14px\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Masaharu Somiya, Associate Professor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Principal Investigators \u3000 \u3000 \u3000 \u3000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/www2.tagen.tohoku.ac.jp\/?page_id=2982","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3015","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","en-US"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.tagen.tohoku.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.tagen.tohoku.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.tagen.tohoku.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.tagen.tohoku.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.tagen.tohoku.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3015"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www2.tagen.tohoku.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3650,"href":"https:\/\/www2.tagen.tohoku.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3015\/revisions\/3650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.tagen.tohoku.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}