Akira HARATA − Editorial Board Member
Akira HARATA, Professor of Analytical and Physical Chemistry in Interdisciplinary Graduate
School of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University, was born in 1962 in Nagano prefecture. He
received Bachelor (1985), Master (1987), and Doctor (1990) degrees of Engineering from the
University of Tokyo. After being a postdoctoral fellow of the Japan Society of Promotion of
Science for 4 months, he became a research associate in the department of Applied Chemistry,
University of Tokyo (1990-1997), and was subsequently promoted to Associate Professor and
Professor (2005) at Kyushu University. His current research interests are ultrasensitive detection
of non-fluorescent molecules in liquid solution and in a biological cell as well as the structure and
dynamics of molecules adsorbed at a water surface, being based on applied laser and synchrotron
spectroscopy. He enjoys reading novels, playing the game of go, and eating soba.
from Analytical Sciences, Volume 25, Number 6, 2009.
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