Shuichiro Ogawa General Manager of Planning and Development, Analysis & Simulation Center, Asahi Kasei Corporation Address: 2-1 Samejima, Fuji, Shizuoka 416-8501, Japan E-mail: ogawa.sj@om.asahi-kasei.co.jp URL: http://www.asahi-kasei.co.jp

Expertise : Shuichiro Ogawa completed his master's degree at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1986 with work on surface science. He also completed a PhD in Material Science in 2000 at the same university. He joined Asahi Kasei Corporation as a researcher in 1986. He researched and developed photosensitive materials, optical disks (DVD) materials, photoelectrochemical nano-materials, and electrochemical catalysts. From 1993 to 1995, he studied the photoelectrochemistry of nano-particles at The University of Texas at Austin. From 2000 to 2004, he was a Corporate R&D representative for Europe at the London office of Asahi Kasei, where he created and managed several R&D projects involving European organizations. Since 2007, he has been closely involved in the development of materials for solar energy as a manager of R&D. Lately, he has been working for Asahi Kasei in the Planning and Development of Analysis & Simulation Center.