Takuji Adachi
Curriculum Vitae
Education
- Ph.D. (Chemistry): University of Texas at Austin, 2012
- B.Eng. (Applied Physics): Osaka University, 2006
Short Bio
Takuji "Taki" Adachi is from Osaka, Japan. He graduated from Osaka University in 2006 with Bachelor degree while his undergraduate research was done in the group of Prof. Hiroshi Masuhara (optical trapping on metal nanoparticles). After graduation, he continued to work with Prof. Masuhara as a research assistant and discovered that optical trapping can induce crystal nucleation (!!!). In 2007, he moved to Austin TX for his graduate study. At UT Austin, he learned various single molecule spectroscopy techniques to study photophysics of conjugated polymers. His study was supervised by Prof. Paul F. Barbara and Prof. David A. Vanden Bout, and he obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2012. He worked in the group of Prof. John Lupton in Regensburg (Germany) as a postdoctoral researcher for a year to expand his single molecule spectroscopy skill, and then moved back to USA with JSPS postdoctoral fellowship to work with Prof. Michael D. Ward at New York University (2014-2016). In NYU, he worked on developing hydrogen-bonded host frameworks and studying self-assembly of artificial microswimmers. After New York, he moved to Strasbourg (France) to work with Prof. Thomas Hermans at Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires as a postdoctoral researcher. In Strasbourg, he developed a new fluid transportation technology based on controlling magnetic field. Since 2019, he is a tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Geneva.