CHUBU UNIVERSITY
Kasugai, Japan
Date of birth: December 12, 1951 (Kyoto, Japan)
Title: Professor, Dr. Eng.
Affiliation: Department of Polymer Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
Website: http://living.polym.kyoto-u.ac.jp/
Current Positions:
- Professor of Polymer Chemistry, Kyoto University
- Member, The Science Council of Japan (SCJ)
- Titular Member, Polymer Division, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)
- Former President (2008–2010), The Society of Polymer Science, Japan (SPSJ)
Education:
- BS (1974) and MS (1976), Department of Polymer Chemistry, Kyoto University;
- Ph.D./Dr. Eng. (1979), Kyoto University (in Polymer Chemistry; Thesis Advisor: Professor Toshinobu Higashimura)
Awards:
1992 - Award of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan (for FY1991)
1999 - Divisional Research Award of the Chemical Society of Japan (for FY1998)
2002 - Arthur K. Doolittle Award (American Chemical Society, PMSE Division) (for 2001)
2012 - MacroGroup UK Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Polymer Science [Royal Society of Chemistry, The Pure and Applied Macromolecular Chemistry - Group (Macro Group UK)] (for 2012)
2013 - SPSJ Award for Outstanding Achievement in Polymer Science and Technology
(for FY2012)
2014 - NIMS Award on Strong Future of Soft Material [NIMS: National Institute for Materials Science]
2015 - Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon [by the Emperor Hiroshito and the Prime Minister of Japan (Shinzo Abe); presented by the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports]
2016 - Alexander von Humboldt Research Award [The Humboldt Foundation, Germany]
2017 - Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry [The Franklin Institute, U. S. A.]
Research Interest:
(a) Living and precisely controlled polymerizations: Radical and cationic.
(b) Cationic polymerization and the chemistry of carbocations
(c) Radical polymerization and transition metal catalysis
(d) Precision polymer synthesis via living polymerizations