Satoru Tsushima

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Satoru Tsushima

Specially Appointed Associate Professor

Computational ChemistryCoordination ChemistryMolecular DynamicsSpectroscopy

Biography

I obtained Ph.D. degree at the University of Tokyo on a topic related to nuclear chemical engineering.
After completing Ph.D., I worked few years in Japan first as a postdoc and later as an associate professor. In 2005, I moved to Europe and worked in Sweden, France, and finally in Germany where I now work as a senior scientist at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR). Since 2017, I became a faculty member of WRHI.

Expectations for WRHI

WRHI program gives me an opportunity to maintain intimate contact with a research group at Tokyo Tech. In my particular case, as being a computational actinide chemist, I have ongoing strong collaboration with experimental actinide chemistry group led by Prof. Koichiro Takao. WRHI program supports us to visit each other and to have joint experiments from our shared ideas thereby strongly facilitating our collaboration. The program also makes it possible for me to have access to TSUBAME 3.0 supercomputing facility.

Research Projects

  • Quantum Chemical Calculations for Actinide Coordination Chemistry and Spectroscopy

  • Aquatic Actinide Chemistry and Thermodynamics under Elevated Temperature Conditions

  • Fragment Molecular Orbital Calculation on Metal-Bound Biological Polymers

  • Interaction of uranyl and peptides

    Project summary: Computational modeling of engineered peptides that can selectively bind uranium. The idea of the project is to model such peptides computationally and to experimentally prove their high selectivity.
    Periods: April 2019 – March 2022
    Members: Satoru Tsushima (PI), Koichiro Takao

    uranyl ionpeptideDFTNMR

Topics

  • Die Welt (German Newspaper), “The role of water H-bond imbalances in B-DNA substate transitions and peptide recognition revealed by time-resolved FTIR spectroscopy” (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133(15), 5834-5842)

2017-

Specially Appointed Associate Professor , Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2006-

Senior Scientist, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf
2005-2006

Visiting Prof., Stockholm Univ.
2003-2005

Associate Prof., Nagoya Univ.
1999-2003

Assistant Prof., Univ. Tokyo
2005

Waste Management Symposia 2004 Best Poster Award: Nuclear Engineering Divition of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) (2005.2)
2003

Promising Endeavor Award: Atomic Energy Society of Japan, (2003.3)
2020

Koichiro Takao, Juliane März, Moe Matsuoka, Takanori Mashita, Hiroyuki Kazama, Satoru Tsushima. “Crystallization of colourless hexanitratoneptunate(iv) with anhydrous H+ countercations trapped in a hydrogen bonded polymer with diamide linkers” RSC Adv., 2020, 10, 6082-6087.
2020

Tsubasa Inoue, Hiroyuki Kazama, Satoru Tsushima, and Koichiro Takao. “Essential Role of Heterocyclic Structure of N-Alkylated 2-Pyrrolidone Derivatives for Recycling Uranium from Spent Nuclear Fuels” Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. 2020, 93, 846-853.
2020

Jerome Kretzschmar, Satoru Tsushima, Bjorn Drobot, Robin Steudtner, Katja Schmeide and Thorsten Stumpf. “Trimeric uranyl(VI)–citrate forms Na+, Ca2+, and La3+ sandwich complexes in aqueous solution” Chem. Commun., 2020, 56, 13133-13136.
2019

Andre Rossberg, Takaya Abe, Koji Okuwaki, Astrid Barkleit, Kaori Fukuzawa, Tatsuya Nakano, Yuji Mochizuki and Satoru Tsushima. “Destabilization of DNA through interstrand crosslinking by UO22+” Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 2015-2018.
2019

Mashita, T.; Tsushima, S.; Takao, K. “Photocatalytic Oxygenation of Cyclohexene Initiated by Excitation of [UO2(OPCyPh2)4]2+ under Visible Light” ACS Omega, 2019, 4, 7194–7199.
2019

Hiroyuki Kazama, Satoru Tsushima, Koichiro Takao. “Crystallization of Anhydrous Proton from Acidic Aqueous Solution with Diamide Building Block” Cryst. Growth Des.  2019, 19, 11, 6048–6052.
2019

Katharina Müller, Harald Foerstendorf , Robin Steudtner, Satoru Tsushima , Michael U. Kumke, Grégory Lefèvre, Jörg Rothe, Harris Mason , Zoltán Szabó, Ping Yang , Christian K. R. Adam , Rémi André, Katlen Brennenstuhl, Ion Chiorescu, Herman M. Cho , Gaëlle Creff, Frédéric Coppin, Kathy Dardenne, Christophe Den Auwer , Björn Drobot , Sascha Eidner, Nancy J. Hess, Peter Kaden, Alena Kremleva, Jerome Kretzschmar, Sven Krüger, James A. Platts, Petra J. Panak, Robert Polly, Brian A. Powell, Thomas Rabung, Roland Redon, Pascal E. Reiller, Notker Rösch, André Rossberg, Andreas C. Scheinost, Bernd Schimmelpfennig, Georg Schreckenbach, Andrej Skerencak-Frech, Vladimir Sladkov, Pier Lorenzo Solari, Zheming Wang, Nancy M. Washton, and Xiaobin Zhang. “Interdisciplinary Round-Robin Test on Molecular Spectroscopy of the U(VI) Acetate System” ACS Omega 2019, 4, 8167−8177
2019

Rohan Jain, Siyuan Fan, Peter Kaden, Satoru Tsushima, Harald Foerstendorf ,Robert Barthen, Falk Lehmann, Katrin Pollmann. “Recovery of gallium from wafer fabrication industry wastewaters by Desferrioxamine B and E using reversed-phase chromatography approach” Water Research Volume 158, 1 July 2019, Pages 203-212
2019

Bjorn Drobot, Moritz Schmidt, Yuji Mochizuki, Takaya Abe,　Koji Okuwaki, Florian Brulfert, Sven Falke, Sergey A. Samsonov,　Yuto Komeiji, Christian Betzel, Thorsten Stumpf,Johannes Raff and Satoru Tsushima. “Cm3+/Eu3+ induced structural, mechanistic and functional implications for calmodulin” Phys.Chem.Chem.Phys.,2019, 21, 21213
2019

Satoru Tsushima. “Lanthanide-induced conformational change of methanol dehydrogenase involving coordination change of cofactor pyrroloquinoline quinone” Phys.Chem.Chem.Phys.,2019, 21, 21979
2018

Takao, K.; Kazama, H.; Ikeda, Y.; Tsushima, S. “Crystal Structure of Regularly Th-Symmetric [U(NO3)6]2- Salts with Hydrogen Bond Polymers of Diamide Building Blocks” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2019, 58, 240-243.
2018

Takanori Mashita,  Satoru Tsushima  and   Koichiro Takao ”Controlling the lability of uranyl(VI) through intramolecular π–π stacking” Dalton Transactions., 2018, 47, 13072-13080.
2018

Toni Haubitz, Satoru Tsushima, Robin Steudtner,Björn Drobot, Gerhard Geipel, Thorsten Stumpf, and Michael U. Kumke “Ultrafast Transient Absorption Spectroscopy of UO22+ and [UO2Cl]+” J. Phys. Chem. A 2018,122, 6970−6977.
2018

K.Takao, S.Tsushima “The oxidation of borohydrides by photoexcioted [UO2(CO3)3]4- ”, Dalton Trans. 2018, 47 (15), 5149-5152.
2017

H.Kazama, S.Tsushima, Y.Ikeda, K.Takao, “Molecular and Crystal Structures of Uranyl Nitrate Coordination Polymers with Double-Headed 2‑Pyrrolidone Derivatives” Inorg. Chem. 2017, 56(21), 13530–13534.