Masae Takahashi
Tohoku University, Japan
Biography
Masae Takahashi is currently an Associate professor of School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University in Japan. She has received her BSc, MSc and Science Doctor’s degree (PhD) in Physics at Tohoku University. She was a Researcher of Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) from 1991-2003. Since then she became an Assistant Professor of Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University and promoted to an Associate Professor at the same institute in 2006. She moved to Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University in 2010 as an Associate Professor. She got the Shiseido Female Researcher Science Grant Award in 2008, the SJWS (the Society of Japanese Women Scientists) Promising Scientific Award in 2010 and the Ube-foundation Academic Award in 2016. Currently her researches focus on two-dimensional materials such as silicene and silicene molecules.