Takuro Ideguchi
Associate Professor
Institute for Photon Science and Technology (IPST), Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo
Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo
UTokyo Research Institute for Photon Science and Laser Technology（UTripl）
UTokyo Excellent Young Researcher
Citizenship: Japanese
Place of birth: Ibaraki, JAPAN
Education
2010-2014: Dr. rer. nat. (Physics), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universät München, Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
"2014 is the 200th anniversary of spectroscope invented by a German physicist, Joseph von Fraunhofer, back in 1814. It is a great honor that I received my doctoral degree in developing modernized spectroscopic methods in Munich, where Fraunhofer invented the first spectroscope." Munich, Feb.21, 2014
2006-2008: Master of Engineering (Applied Physics), The University of Tokyo
2002-2006: Bachelor of Engineering (Applied Physics), The University of Tokyo
Job Experience
2019-: Associate Professor, Institute for Photon Science and Technology (IPST), Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo
2018-: UTokyo Research Institute for Photon Science and Laser Technology (UTripl)
2024-: FOREST Researcher, JST
2016-2019: Lecturer, Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo
2017-2021: PRESTO Researcher, JST
2014-2016: Assistant Professor, Research Centre for Spectrochemistry, School of Science, The University of Tokyo
2008-2010: Electrophotography engineer, Canon inc.
Award
2024: Masao Horiba Award
2018: UTokyo Excellent Young Researcher (open call)
2018: UTokyo Excellent Young Researcher
2017: Prominent Young Vibrational Spectroscopist (Vibrational Spectroscopy, Elsevier)
2015: German Innovation Award, Gottfried Wagener Prize 2015
2015: Young Scientist Award of The Spectroscopical Society of Japan
2015: Optical Paper Award
2015: The Young Scientists’ Prize, The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
2015: Konica Minolta Image Science Award
2015: Scientist Award, Research Foundation for Opt-Science and Technology
2015: Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan
2014: Young Scientist Presentation Award of The Spectroscopical Society of Japan
2008: Shoji Tanaka award
Selected publications
Ultrafast Science, in press "Broadband coherent Raman scattering spectroscopy at 50,000,000 spectra/s"
Nature Photonics 18, 738–743 (2024) "Mid-infrared wide-field nanoscopy"
Light: Science & Applications 12, 174 (2023) "Label-free mid-infrared photothermal live-cell imaging beyond video rate"
Light: Science & Applications, 12, 48 (2023) "Upconversion time-stretch infrared spectroscopy"
Light: Science & Applications, 10, 1 (2021) "Adaptive dynamic range shift (ADRIFT) quantitative phase imaging"
Communications Physics 3, 152 (2020) "Time-stretch infrared spectroscopy"
Optica 7, 359-366 (2020) "Label-free biochemical quantitative phase imaging with mid-infrared photothermal effect"
Nature Communications 10, 4411 (2019) "Complementary Vibrational Spectroscopy"
Science Advances 5, aau0241 (2019) "High-throughput label-free molecular fingerprinting flow cytometry"
Nature Communications 9, 4448 (2018) "Phase-controlled Fourier-transform spectroscopy"
Optica 3, 748-753 (2016) "Kerr-lens mode-locked bidirectional dual-comb ring laser for broadband dual-comb spectroscopy"
Nature Communications 6, 6310 (2015) "An octave spanning mid-infrared frequency comb generated in a silicon nanophotonic wire waveguide"
Nature Communications 5, 3375 (2014) "Adaptive real-time dual-comb spectroscopy"
Nature 502, 355-358 (2013) "Coherent Raman spectro-imaging with laser frequency combs"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 233001 (2008) "Coherent Quantum Control of Excitons at Ultracold and High Density in Cu2O with Phase Manipulated Pulses"
Membership
Optical Society of America (OSA)
The International Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE)
The Physical Society of Japan (JPSJ)
The Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP)
The Spectroscopical Society of Japan
The Laser Society of Japan
Committee, Editororial
JSAP Quantum Electronics Study Group, Secretary General (2017-2020), Committee (2014-present)
IEICE Ultrafast Optoelectronics Study Group, Committee
ICO-24 Steering Committee Member
SPIE Photonics West (Lase), Program Committee (2018-present)
IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) 2020, Technical Program Committee
CLEO-PR 2022, Subcommittee
OSA Optical Sensors and Sensing Congress 2021, Committee
European Optical Society Annual meeting (EOSAM) 2021, Program committee
IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) 2022, Topic Vice Chair
Optica Sensing Congress 2023, Fourier Transform Spectroscopy Meeting, Technical Program Committee
IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) 2023, Program Committee
IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) 2024, Topic Chair
Journal of Physics B (IOP Science), Guest Editor (2024)
CLEO 2025, Program sub-committee
Optica Sensing Congress 2025, Fourier Transform Spectroscopy Meeting, Technical Program Committee
Peer review experience
Nature, Nature Photonics, Nature Methods, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Communications Physics, Optica, Optics Letters, Optics Express, Biomedical Optics Express, Analytical Chemistry, Advanced Photonics, APL Photonics, ACS Photonics, Angewandte Chemie, Scientific Reports, Microscopy, IEEE Photonics