Welcome to the Glass Age

212 Prof. Setsuhisa Tanabe Setsuhisa Tanabe is a Professor of Material Chemistry at the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan. He is the author of >270 original papers, >25 book chapters, and >40 review papers on rare-earth doped luminescent materials for up conversion lasers, optical fiber amplifier for telecommunication, LED phosphors and persistent phosphors. He has served as a plenary, keynote or invited speaker at >140 international conferences and at >200 domestic meetings & seminars. He is a Fellow of SPIE and ACerS. He now serves as an Editor of the Journal of Luminescence and is the Chair of the Japanese committee of the International Year of Glass 2022.