Rate My Professor Shiki Yagai

Shiki Yagai is a Professor at the Institute for Advanced Academic Research and the Graduate School of Engineering at Chiba University. He earned his Ph.D. from Ritsumeikan University in 2002. His academic career at Chiba University began as an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Engineering from 2002 to 2007. He subsequently served as a PRESTO researcher with the Japan Science and Technology Agency from 2006 to 2010 and as an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Engineering from 2010 to 2017. He was appointed Professor at the Institute for Global Prominent Research in 2017 and has held his current position at the Institute for Advanced Academic Research since 2022. He also serves as a Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo since 2021.

Professor Yagai’s research centers on supramolecular materials based on functional dyes and π-conjugated systems, including supramolecular polymers, gels, liquid crystals, photoresponsive molecular assemblies, organic solar cells, and luminescent mechanochromic materials. He contributes to scientific publishing as an Editorial Board Member of Responsive Materials, Associate Editor of the Journal of Photochemistry & Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews, and Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports. His work has been featured in university press releases on topics such as light-driven inversion of supramolecular chirality and time-evolving helicity in polymers.