Osamu Terasaki#
| Membership Number: | 5339 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | Japan |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-5803-0817 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2018 - present Professor and Director of the Centre for High-Resolution Electron Microscopy, ShanghaiTech University, China
- 2015 - 2018 Distinguished Adjunct Professor, School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, China
- 2013 - 2016 Invited Guest Professor, Brain Korea 21st Century Plus Programme, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea
- 2009 - 2013 Invited Guest Professor, World Class University Programme, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea
- 2003 - 2010 Professor and Head of Structural Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, Sweden.
- 2002 - 2003 Professor, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University, Japan
- 1995 - 2001 Research Director, Core Research for Evolutional Science & Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency
- 1967 - 2002 Assistant Professor then Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University, Japan
- 1988 (Oct-Dec) Guest Professor of Swedish Natural Science Research Council, Inorganic Chemistry II, Lund University, Sweden
- 1982 - 1984 Guest Research Fellow of the Royal Society, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Fields of Scholarship
- Electron dynamical scattering
- Incommensurate alloy structures
- Novel cluster crystals synthesized in the regular pores of zeolites
- Fine structure of zeolites by Electron Microscopy
- First structure solution of a complex zeolite by electron crystallography
- New methods for structure determination of mesoporous crystals by Electron Microscopy
- Development of the new technique of Gas Adsorption Crystallography
- Accurate structure determination of Metal-Organic Frameworks and Covalent-Organic Frameworks by Electron Microscopy
- Electron crystallography for determining the handedness of chiral zeolite nano-crystals
- First direct observation of all framework atoms in zeolites by Electron Microscopy
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Donald W. Breck Award, International Zeolite Association (shared with Stephen K. Brand, Joel E. Schmidt, Michael W. Deem, Frits Daeyaer, Yanhang Ma, Marat Orazov, Mark E. Davis)
- 2018 The Magnolia Silver Award, Shanghai Municipal People’s Government, P. R. China
- 2018 Foreign Expert: Recruitment Program, State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs of the P. R. China, Foreign 1000 Talents Plan
- 2014 Honorary Member of Japan Association of Zeolites
- 2010 Honorary Member of Scandinavian Electron Microscopy Society (SCANDEM)
- 2008 Humboldt Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
- 2007 Donald W. Breck Award, International Zeolite Association (shared with Lynne McCusker and Christian Baerlocher)
- 2003 Friendship Award, State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs of the P. R. China
- 1993 Seto Award, Japanese Society of Electron Microscopy
