SASAKI Shunsuke

CNRS Research Fellow

Position:

CNRS researcher

Qualifications:

• March 2017 Doctor of Engineering – Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tokyo, Japan
• “Molecular-Geometry Approaches to Develop Functional Fluorophores Based on Classic Aromatic Hydrocarbons” Supervisor: Gen-ichi Konishi

Previous positions:

• Apr. 2020 – Dec. 2021 Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Oxford

Inorganic Chemistry laboratory, Oxford, United Kingdom
The project funded by EPSRC (UK) on “Soft chemical control to achieve new layered architectures and strongly correlated states”
Supervisor: Simon J. Clarke

• May 2017 – Mar. 2020 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Nantes Université

Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel (IMN), Nantes, France
The project funded by JSPS (Japan) on “Rational design and study of layered transition metal chalcogenides with various local geometry obtained by a novel topotactic intercalation concept”
Supervisor: Laurent Cario

Main research topics:

Design & synthesis of chalcogenides, mixed-anion compounds, low-dimensional materials, quantum materials, π-conjugated systems, fluorescent dyes

Biography

Shunsuke Sasaki currently works at the Jean Rouxel Materials Institute in Nantes (IMN) as a permanent researcher affiliated to the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). He earned his bachelor’s degree in polymer chemistry from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2014. He continued his studies in organic and polymeric materials at the same institute and completed his Ph.D. research on the design of fluorescent molecules in 2017, under the supervision of Dr. Gen-ichi Konishi. Afterward, he decided to shift his focus to inorganic solid-state chemistry and worked as a JSPS postdoctoral fellow at Nantes University under the guidance of Dr. Laurent Cario and his co-workers at IMN until 2020. He conducted another postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford with Dr. Simon J. Clarke before being recruited by CNRS in 2022. His current research focuses on developing novel low-temperature reactions that enable the tailored design of inorganic solid-state materials with exotic 2D structures.

Ongoing research projects:

French National Research Agency (ANR) project – COBEDIT
“Covalent-bond editing by topochemistry of chalcogenide materials” Role: Coordinator

Activities in the research community

International Core-to-core/ASPIRE network on mixed-anion compounds involving France (IMN, ICMCB, UCCS, ISCR), Japan (Kyoto University), UK (University of Oxford), Belgium (University of Antwerp) and Germany (RWTH Aachen).

Prizes:

2024 J. Mater Chem B Outstanding peer reviewers, Royal society of chemistry.
2023 Rising Stars in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry 2023, American Chemical Society

Main publications:

• Anionic Redox Topochemistry for Materials Design: Chalcogenides and Beyond.
  ACS Org. Inorg. Au 4, 26-40 (2024).
• Anion Redox as a Means to Derive Layered Manganese Oxychalcogenides with Exotic Intergrowth Structures.
  Nat. Commun. 14, 2917 (2023).
• Design of Metastable Oxychalcogenide Phases by Topochemical (de)intercalation of Sulfur in La2O2S2.
  Nat. Commun. 12, 3605 (2021).
• Principles of Aggregation-Induced Emission: Design of Deactivation Pathways for Advanced AIEgens and Applications.
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 59, 9856-9867 (2020).

Orcid link: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8358-1629

Scholar.google.com link: https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=gPGubGsAAAAJ&hl=en