Materials Informatics and Catalysts Informatics: An Introduction

Keisuke Takahashi is a full professor at the Department of Chemistry at Hokkaido University in Japan. He has earned a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Arizona, followed by an M.S. at Chalmers University of Technology and a Ph.D. at Hokkaido University. He is the principal investigator of the Information Chemistry group at Hokkaido University where he conducts research in materials and catalyst informatics. His group performs experiment, theory, computation, and data science for designing heterogeneous catalysis, water splitting, artificial photosynthesis, CO2 reduction, perovskite solar cells, and 2-dimensional materials. His research interests are focused on designing catalysts and materials via materials and catalysts informatics.

Lauren Takahashi is an assistant professor at the Department of Chemistry at Hokkaido University in Japan. She is also a member of the Information Chemistry group with Professor Takahashi where she applies ontology and data science towards material design and catalyst-centered research. She has earned a B.A. in Linguistics at the University of Arizona, an M.S. in Communication at the University of Gothenburg, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Systems Engineering at The University of Tokyo. Her research interests focus on improving the structure, usability, and semantics of materials and catalyst data through tactical applications of ontology, data science, machine learning, graph theory, and information science, with the aim of improving the materials and catalysts design process.