About & CV
CV
Taichi Koike holds an Assistant Professorship at the University of Tokyo, and concurrently serves as a Visiting Researcher at RIKEN. He completed his doctorate at Tohoku University in 2023 in the laboratory of Prof. Dr. Takeaki Iwamoto. As a JSPS Research Fellow for Young Scientists (2020–2023), his doctoral work centred on designing and preparing silicon-based π-electron species with unconventional bonding.
He subsequently moved to Technische Universität Dortmund, joining the group of Prof. Dr. Max M. Hansmann on a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. There he broadened his interests toward diazo-based reagents that enable precision editing of molecular skeletons.
He took up his present position in the Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology in April 2025. His current work investigates low-valent organic and main-group species at the point where molecular editing, electrochemistry, and materials science meet. His research has been recognised with the JSPS Ikushi Prize (2023) and the Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists (2024).
