Yoshimitsu Sagara

Yoshimitsu Sagara is an Associate Professor working on supramolecular materials at Department of Materials Science and Engineering in Tokyo Institute of Technology. He was born in 1981 in Takaoka city. He received his Ph.D. with Prof. Takashi Kato from the University of Tokyo in 2009. After working as a JSPS postdoctoral fellow in Kato’s group for one year, he joined Prof. Tetsuo Nagano’s group as a JSPS postdoctoral fellow in the University of Tokyo. Then, he joined Prof. Christoph Weder’s group as a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow for Research Abroad in 2013. After that, he started to work at Research Institute for Electronic Science (RIES) in Hokkaido University in 2015. He was appointed the present position in 2020. His research interests include various stimuli-responsive photofunctional materials based on supramolecular materials including liquid crystals, micelles, gels, and polymers and their practical applications. Especially, he is now focusing on a varitey of mechanoresponsive luminescent materials.