Jian-Ren Shen
"An approach to clean, renewable energy source — Water oxidation by a natural catalyst photosystem II"

Position

Professor
Director of Photosynthesis Research Center,
Okayama University, Japan

Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology,
Okayama University, Japan

Profile

1990:

PhD. from the Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo.

1990-2003:

Research Scientist and Senior Scientist in RIKEN, Japan.

2003:

Professor of Okayama University

2013:

Director, Photosynthesis Research Center, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University

2012:

Received the Asahi Award, A Special Award from the Photosynthesis Society of Japan, etc., for the elucidation of the high-resolution structure and the water-oxidation catalyst of photosystem II.