Current position

Chief Scientist, Organometallic Chemistry Laboratory, RIKEN Pioneering Research Institute

Group Director, Advanced Catalysis Research Group 

Deputy Center Director, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science 

Executive Editor, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Education

B.S., China University of Petroleum, Shandong, China, 1982

M.S., Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, 1986

Ph.D., Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, 1989

Honors and Awards

Honorary Fellow, Chinese Chemical Society, 2024

Honorary Member, the Chemical Society of Japan, 2023

Japan Academy Prize, 2022

The Chemical Society of Japan Award, 2019

Nagoya Silver Medal, 2016 

Chinese Chemical Society Yaozeng Huang Award in Organometallic Chemistry, 2014

The Award of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan, 2012

The Rare Earth Society of Japan Award, 2009

Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan, 2008

JSPS Prize, 2007

Mitsui Chemicals Catalysis Science Award, 2007

The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work, 2007

Progress Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan, 2000

The Rare Earth Society of Japan Award for Young Scientists, 1997

Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry Award for Young Scientists, 1996

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