The Speakers

[Yasuhiro Kobori]

[Tetsuro Kusamoto]

[Stefan Weber]

[Olav Schiemann]

[Yasuhiro Kobori]

Kobe University

"Hidden quantum coherences in magnetoreception with chirality"

Yasuhiro Kobori received a B.Sc. (Tokyo Institute of Technology, 1992), M.Sc. (Tokyo Institute of Technology, 1994), and D.Sc. (Tokyo Institute of Technology, 1998). He was a research associate at Tohoku University (1996), a JSPS postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago (2003), an associate professor at Shizuoka University (2006), and a professor at Kobe University (2013). His current research interests include mechanistic understandings of photoinduced primary processes in short-lived transient species such as multiexcitons and radical pairs by developing a spin-polarization imaging that maps conformations of reaction intermediate with respect to external magnetic field direction in the molecular frame.

[Tetsuro Kusamoto]

University of Osaka

"Assembled radicals as a platform for spin-correlated luminescence"

Tetsuro Kusamoto received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 2010. He was a postdoctoral researcher at RIKEN (2010−2012), a project assistant professor and also an assistant professor at the University of Tokyo (2012-2018), an associate professor at the Institute for Molecular Science (2019-2023), and a professor at the University of Osaka. He is passionate about developing novel open-shell molecular systems that exhibit correlated photonic, electronic, and magnetic functions, with a particular focus on the interplay between spin degree of freedom and electronic excitation-relaxation dynamics in the systems.

[Stefan Weber]

University of Freiburg

"Combining time-resolved EPR and NMR to yield a more complete picture of biological electron transfer"

2008–now: Full Professor (W 3), Institute of Physical Chemistry, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

2004–2007: Assistent Professor (C 2), Faculty of Physics, Free University Berlin

2003: Habilitation in Experimental Physics, Free University Berlin

2002–2003: Scientific Assistent, Faculty of Physics, Free University Berlin

1997–2002: Assistent Professor (C1), Faculty of Physics, Free University Berlin

1995–1997: Postdoc, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago

1994: Dr.in Physical Chemistry, University of Stuttgart "Transiente Elektronenspinresonanz an lichtinduzierten Radikalpaaren der Photosynthese: Nachweis von Nullquantenkohärenzen"

1989: Diploma in Chemistry, University of Stuttgart

[Olav Schiemann]

University of Bonn

“Unraveling the conformational landscape of CRISPR/Cas13a with Pulsed Dipolar EPR Spectroscopy”

Olav Schiemann received a Diploma in Chemistry (University of Marburg, 1995) and a PhD (University of Marburg, 1998). He was a DFG postdoctoral fellow at Caltech (1998-2000), a habilitant and then Privatdozent at the University of Frankfurt (2000-2007), and a Lecturer, Reader, and then Professor at the University of St Andrews (2007-2014). Since 2011, he has been a Full Professor at the University of Bonn. His current research interests include structure-dynamics-function relationships in biomolecules and the development of EPR methods. He has been awarded a Weston Visiting Professorship from the Weizmann Institute (2022) and the Biology/Medicine Medal of the International EPR Society (2025).

[Kazunobu Sato]

Osaka Metropolitan University

"Molecular spin quantum information science and technology: Spin relaxation and quantum control as studied by pulsed ESR method”

Kazunobu Sato received his PhD in Science from Osaka City University (OCU) in 1994. He joined Prof. Takeji Takui’s research group then and started his academic carrier. In 2006, he became a professor at the Graduate School of Science, OCU. He is currently a professor at Osaka Metropolitan University which was established in 2022 by merging OCU and Osaka Prefecture University. His research focuses on an understanding of electronic structures and magnetic properties of molecule-based magnetic materials. Also, he focuses his great efforts on methodological developments of pulsed electron-nuclear multiple resonance spectroscopy, implementing developments of molecular-spin quantum computers and quantum information processing by invoking pulsed AWG-ESR spin technology. He has been received a society award from the Society of Electron Spin Science and Technology in 2024.

[Hikaru Kuramochi]

University of Osaka

"Mapping ultrafast chemical reaction dynamics in complex molecular systems via vibrational coherence"

Hikaru Kuramochi received his B.Sc. (2007), M.Sc. (2009), and D.Sc. (2013) from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He was appointed as a Special Postdoctoral Researcher at RIKEN in 2013, became a Research Scientist at RIKEN in 2016, and joined Institute for Molecular Science as an Associate Professor in 2020. In 2025, he was appointed Professor at the University of Osaka. His current research focuses on the development of novel ultrafast spectroscopic techniques and light sources, and their application to investigate reaction dynamics and coherent phenomena in condensed-phase systems from small fundamental molecules to complex molecular systems such as proteins and functional materials.

[Hiroki Nagashima]

Saitama University

“EPR Characterization of Magnetic Field-Sensitive Proteins”

Hiroki Nagashima is an Assistant Professor at Saitama University, Japan, and a Collaborative Researcher at the National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST). He served as a JSPS Research Fellow (DC1) and received his Ph.D. in Science from Nagoya University in 2017. Then, he moved to Kobori Laboratory, Kobe University, and worked on time-resolved and pulsed EPR measurements of singlet fission.

He was a visiting scholar in Prof. Michael Wasielewski’s group at Northwestern University in 2019. Since 2019, he has been working with Prof. Kiminori Maeda at Saitama University. His research focuses on electron spin resonance (ESR), with particular interest in magnetic field effects in biological molecules.

[Shigenori Tanaka]

Shigenori Tanaka received his PhD in theoretical physics in 1986 from the University of Tokyo. He worked as a research associate at the University of Tokyo, and later as a researcher at the Toshiba Research and Development Center. Meanwhile, he worked at the California

Institute of Technology in 1995–1996 as a visiting researcher. From 2004 to 2025, he was a professor at Kobe University (Graduate School of System Informatics, etc.). Currently, he is a researcher at Molecular Photoscience Research Center of Kobe University. His primary research interests are the development of first-principles computational methods for biomolecular systems and their applications for bottom-up modeling of biological phenomena.Kobe University

“Quantum Effects in Biological Systems”

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