Olaf Karthaus
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Olaf Karthaus (born 1963 in Koblenz) is a German polymer chemist serving as Professor at the Chitose Institute of Science and Technology, Chitose, Hokkaido, Japan, researching polymer chemistry, thin films, photonics, and nanotechnology.
Karthaus received a PhD from Johannes-Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany in 1992 under the supervision of Helmut Ringsdorf. He then worked from 1992 to 1993 as a post-doctoral fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and the Alexander von Humboldt foundation at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. He then served as a research Assistant from 1994 to 2000 at the Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
Karthaus was a co-plaintiff with Arudou Debito and Kenneth Sutherland in an anti-discrimination lawsuit against a hot spring (onsen) in Otaru, Japan that refused entry to individuals with foreign appearance even if they were Japanese citizens.
