Tomoya Higashihara

Tomoya Higashihara Tokyo Institute of Technology Organic and polymeric materials 2-12-1-H120, O-okayama, Meguro-ku Tokyo Japan 152-8552 Email: thigashihara@polymer.titech.ac.jp Biographical Sketch: I was born in Kagawa, Japan in 1977. After receiving B.S. (2000) and M.S. (2002) from Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan, I received Doctorate Degrees from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2005, under the supervision of Prof. Akira Hirao. During the period of 2005 to 2008, I joined postdoctoral researches at University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA under the supervision of Prof. Rudolf Faust. I was then promoted to an Assistant Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2008. I published 95 papers. My research interests include living ionic polymerization, star-branched polymers, condensative chain-growth polymerization, rod-coil block copolymers, polythiophenes, and polymer solar cells.