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Prof. Dr. Satoru Tsushima

s.tsushimaAthzdr.de
Phone: +49 351 260 2978

Personal web page of Satoru Tsushima

Scientific career

  • Since 2017:
    Specially Appointed Associate Professor at Tokyo Institute of Techology
  • Since 2006:
    Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and later Senior Scientist at HZDR
  • 2005-2006:
    Visiting Professor at AlbaNova University Center, Sweden
  • 2003-2005:
    Associate Professor at Nagoya University, Japan
  • 1999-2003:
    Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Tokyo, Japan
  • 1999:
    Doctor of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Research experiences and interests

I studied nuclear chemical engineering at the University of Tokyo where my initial research interest was experimental actinide science. After finishing Ph.D. study, I gradually switched to theory and modeling. In 2005, I moved to Stockholm and joined theory group of Prof. Ulf Wahlgren and Prof. Ingmar Grenthe and later worked at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France. Currently I work at Biophysics Division of HZDR and my main focus is interaction of radionuclides with protein. Since 2017 I have second affiliation at Tokyo Institute of Technology where I work closely with Prof. Koichiro Takao.

Recent collaborators

Prof. H. Burrows (University of Coimbra, Portugal),  Prof. K. Takao (Tokyo Tech, Japan), Prof. M. U. Kumke (Universität Potsdam, Germany),  Prof. C. Den Auwer ( Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, France), Dr. Z. Szabo (KTH, Sweden), Prof. S. Nagasaki (McMaster University , Canada), Prof. E. V. Alekseev (FZ Jülich, Germany), Prof. Y. Mochizuki (Rikkyo University, Japan), Dr. D. Khakhulin (XFEL, Germany), Dr. R. J.Baker (Trinity College, Ireland), Prof. R. Jain (IIT Delhi, India), Prof. E. D. van Hullebusch (Université de Paris, France), Prof. Sergey Samsonov (Gdańsk, Poland)

Awards

  • Promising Endeavor Award: Atomic Energy Society of Japan, March 2003
  • Waste Management Symposia 2004 Best Poster Award: Nuclear Engineering Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), February 2005

Patents

  • "Photochemische Entfernung von Uran(VI)-Verbindungen aus mit Uran(VI)-verschmutzten Flüssigkeiten", K.Fahmy, E.Attia, S.Tsushima, DE 10 2014 225 951.7
  • "Extraction/Separation Method of Uranium Compound", S.Kinoshita, S.Yamamoto, K.Masuda, Y.Nagase, R.Wada, K.Ohnishi, Y,Meguro, O.Tomioka, S.Tsushima, I.Yamamoto, JP 4534002, B

Publications

Total of 110 peer-reviewed articles with 2403 citations and h-index of 30 (Scopus). Complete publication list can be obtained via ORCID. Recent publications are below. 

  • T.Takeyama, S.Tsushima, R. Gericke, P.Kaden, J.März, K.Takao "Fate of Oxidation State at Actinide Centers in Redox-Activie Ligand Systems Governed by Energy Levels of 5f Orbitals" Chem. Eur. J. 2023, in press, e202302702.
  • C.Zurita, S.Tsushima, P.L.Solari, D.Menut, S.Dourdain, A.Jeanson, G.Creff, C. Den Auwer "Interaction Between the Transferrin Protein and Plutonium and Thorium, What's New?" Chem. Eur. J. 2023, 29, e202300636.
  • S.Tsushima, K.Takao "Hydrophobic core formation and secondary structure elements in uranyl(vi)-binding peptides" Phys.Chem.Chem.Phys., 2022, 24, 4455.
  • S.M.Gutenthaler, S.Tsushima, R.Steudtner, M.Gailer, A.Hoffmann-Röder, B.Drobot, L.J.Daumann "Lanmodulin peptides - unravelling the binding of the EF-Hand loop sequences stripped from the structural corset" Inorg. Chem.Front., 2022, 9, 4009.