Rate My Professor Yasuhiko Shimotsuma

Yasuhiko Shimotsuma is Associate Professor in the Department of Material Chemistry at the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University. He received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Engineering from Tohoku University in 1994 and 1996, respectively, and a Ph.D. in Material Chemistry from Kyoto University in 2005. His professional career began in 1996 at the Corporate R&D Division for Components & Devices of Kyocera Corporation. He joined the Fukui Institute for Fundamental Chemistry at Kyoto University in 2004, followed by an appointment as Associate Professor at the NEDO Integrated Photonics Laboratory within the International Innovation Center (now the Office of Society-Academia Collaboration for Innovation) at Kyoto University in 2006. He has held his current position since February 2011.

Shimotsuma’s research centers on the physics of light-matter interaction, with emphasis on the development of functional materials and nano-devices through nanoscience and ultrashort pulse laser techniques. His work includes studies of femtosecond laser-induced structural modifications, self-assembled nanostructures in glass and other materials, and related optical properties. In 2022 he was named a Fellow of SPIE and serves as Topical Editor for Chinese Optics Letters. He is a member of professional organizations including the Optical Society of America, The International Society for Optical Engineering, the Ceramic Society of Japan, the Chemical Society of Japan, the Laser Society of Japan, and the Japan Society of Applied Physics.