Profile: Received a B.Eng. (2001) and a M.Eng. (2003) in Chemical Engineering from University of Tokyo, and a M.S. (2005) in Applied Physics and a Ph.D. (2008) in Materials Science from California Institute of Technology. He was a project assistant professor (2008-2011) and a project associate professor (2011-2015) at Institute for Nano Quantum Information Electronics, University of Tokyo, and has been an associate professor at Department of Chemical Engineering, Kyoto University since 2015. Gottfried Wagener Prize, German Innovation Award (2017) Funai Academic Award (2016) Young Scientists' Prize, Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (2015) IEICE Electronics Society Laser-Quantum Electronics (LQE) Young Researchers Award (2012) Japanese Society of Applied Physics (JSAP) Young Scientist Presentation Award (2011) Electronic Materials Symposium (EMS) Award (2009) Best Student Presentation Award, IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC) (2008) Google Scholar Citations: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-3G7btYAAAAJ Previous books: M. Sugawara, Y. Arakawa, and K. Tanabe Chapter 7: “Advanced self-assembled indium arsenide (InAs) quantum dot lasers” Semiconductor Lasers: Fundamentals and Applications, A. Baranov and E. Tournie eds., Woodhead Publishing, 2013 (ISBN-10: 0-85709-121-2, ISBN-13: 978-0-85709-121-5) K. Tanabe Low-Cost High-Efficiency III-V Semiconductor Compound Solar Cells: Utilization of Wafer Bonding and Plasmonic Technologies, VDM Verlag, 2010 (Invited) (ISBN-10: 3-639-22761-1, ISBN-13: 978-3-639-22761-1) K. Tanabe Chapter 9: “Ultrahigh efficiency III-V semiconductor compound solar cells” Recent Research Developments in Applied Physics, Vol. 9, S. G. Pandalai ed., Transworld Research Network, 2007 (Invited) (ISBN: 81-7895-213-0)