Welcome to “Analytically Speaking,” the podcast from LCGC and Spectroscopy.
Here in Episode 11, podcast host Dr. Jerry Workman talks to Prof. Yukihiro (Yuki) Ozaki, who is a professor emeritus in the School of Science and Technology at Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan. He has been a guest professor or scientist at Kobe University and the Toyota Physical and Chemical Research Institute.
We spoke to Prof. Ozaki about his theoretical and advanced applications-oriented studies using near-infrared spectroscopy. Yuki is involved in studies of a wide range of molecular spectroscopy techniques, covering from far-ultraviolet to far-infrared–terahertz spectroscopy and also Raman spectroscopy. He is a rather rare scientist who has carried out research in both electronic and vibrational spectroscopy. Yuki has been a member of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) for more than 30 years and a Fellow since 2013. He has received several awards, including the Bomem-Michelson Award (2014), the Chemical Society of Japan Award (2017), the Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award (2019), and the Charles Mann Award (2020).