Progress in Photon Science

Kaoru Yamanouchi has been Professor of Chemistry at The University of Tokyo since April 1997. His research fields are in physical chemistry and AMO physics, especially gas phase laser spectroscopy, chemical reaction dynamics, and intense laser science. Education: Kaoru Yamanouchi graduated from Department of Chemistry, the University of Tokyo in 1981. After receiving Master's Degree from Graduate School of Chemistry in 1983, he received Doctor's Degree from the same graduate school in 1986. Experience: One year before receiving the doctor's degree he was appointed as Research Associate at Department of Pure and Applied Sciences of the University of Tokyo. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1990, and had been in the position for seven years until he became Professor of Chemistry in 1997.

Biological applications.- Atoms and molecules in laser fields.- Laser-plasma interaction and filamentation.- Spectroscopy and interferometry.- Electron scattering in laser fields.- Light emission and absorption in novel materials.- Solid-state spectroscopy.- Nanostructures and clusters.- Light propagation in media.