Satoshi Horikoshi, Sophia University, Department of Materials and Life Sciences (Associate Professor). Microwave Science Research Center MSRC (Director). Satoshi Horikoshi received his Ph.D. degree in 1999, and was subsequently a postdoctoral researcher at the Frontier Research Center for the Global Environment Science (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) until 2006. He joined Sophia University as Assistant Professor in 2006, moved to Tokyo University of Science as Associate Professor in 2008, after which he returned to Sophia University, again as Associate Professor, in 2011. Currently he is Director of the Japan Society of Electromagnetic Wave Energy Applications (JEMEA), and is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Microwave Power and Electromagnetic Energy a well as three other international journals. His research interests involve new functional material or nanomaterial synthesis, molecular biology, the formation of sustainable energy, and environmental protection using microwave-energy and/or photo-energy. He has co-authored over 190 scientific publications and has contributed to, and edited or co-edited, 23 books. Nick Serpone, Ph.D., F. EurASc. Visiting Professor, PhotoGreen Laboratory, Dipartimento di Chimica, Universita di Pavia, Italia. Nick Serpone is Professor Emeritus (Concordia University, Montreal, Canada), and since 2002 has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Pavia (Italy). He was also a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Bologna and Ferrara (Italy), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland), École Centrale de Lyon (France), and Tokyo University of Science (Japan), and a Guest Lecturer at the University of Milan (Italy). He was Program Director at the National Science Foundation (Washington, USA) and consultant to the 3M Company (USA). He has co-edited/co-authored several books, contributed 23 chaptersto books, and published over 450 articles. His principal interests have focused on the photophysics and photochemistry of coordination compounds and metal-oxide semiconductors, environmental remediation, and microwave chemistry. He is a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc) where he is currently Head of the Materials Science Division.
