Hiroshi Segawa
Hiroshi Segawa is professor at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, Japan. He obtained his PhD in molecular engineering from Kyoto University, Japan. He joined the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, as research associate in 1989 and moved to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, as associate professor in 1995. From 2009 to 2014, he was the core researcher of the Funding Program for World-Leading Innovative R&D on Science and Technology for the development of organic photovoltaics toward a low-carbon society. Since 2015, he is a project leader working on the development of perovskite-type innovative solar cells with low production cost. Prof. Segawa is a member of the Science Council of Japan. He has received many awards, including the Second Solar Award of Japan (Technology Section) in 2013 and the Platinum Prize of Tanaka Noble Metal Group in 2014. His research interests include perovskite solar cells, energy-storable solar cells, photoenergy conversion, and molecular systems.