Dr. Jan Labuta

Jan Labuta received a Ph.D. (2008) from Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. He was awarded a JSPS postdoctoral fellowship to perform research at Supermolecules Group, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan, and continued his work there as an research associate of the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), NIMS. Then, he took a position as independent researcher at the International Centre for Young Scientists (ICYS), NIMS. From 2016, he holds permanent position as MANA Senior Researcher at Functional Chromophores Group, MANA, NIMS. His research interests are host–guest and supramolecular chemistry, chemical equilibria and kinetics, sensing, chirality, tautomerism and phase separation phenomenon of stimuli-responsive polymers and porphyrin derivatives.