Eiichi Nakamura (chemist)
Eiichi Nakamura is a Japanese chemist and professor of chemistry at University of Tokyo in Japan.Education
- 1973 BS Faculty of Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology
- 1978 PhD in chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology
- 1978-1980 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York
Major research interests
- catalyst chemistry, fullerene chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, organic solar cells.
Academic experience
- 1980-1984 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology
- 1984-1993 Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology
- 1989-1991 Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Applied Molecular Science, Institute for Molecular Science
- 1993-1995 Professor, Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology
- 1995–present Professor, Department of Chemistry, The University of Tokyo
- 2004-2010 ERATO Nakamura Functional Carbon Cluster program research director, Japan Science and Technology Agency
- 2007- The University of Tokyo, Chemistry Innovation Global COE Program Leader
- 2008-2009 Chairman, Department of Chemistry, The University of Tokyo
Professional functions
- 2003-2006 Senior Program Officer in Chemistry, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Research Center for Science Systems
- 2006-2008 Corresponding Member of the Science Council of Japan
- 2006-2007 Senior Program Officer, The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- 2011- Program Director and Chair, Japan Agency for Science and Technology
- 2009-2011 Kaiteki Institute Co. Advisory board member
- 2012 Visiting Professorship for Senior International Scientists, ICCAS, Beijing, China
- May 21, 2015 Visiting Professorship for Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
- May 23, 2015 Visiting Professorship for Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing, China
Awards and honors
- Young Chemists Award
- Yamanouchi Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
- Tejima Memorial Award
- The Japan IBM Science Prize
- Nagoya Silver Medal for Organic Chemistry
- The Chemical Society of Japan Award
- Humboldt Research Award
- The Medal with Purple Ribbon
- the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award of ACS
- Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Elected Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Honorary Member of the Israel Chemical Society
Special lectureships
- R. C. Fuson Visiting Professor, University of Illinois
- Syntex Distinguished Lectureship. Colorado State University
- Parke Davis-Warner Lambert Distinguished Lectureship, Ohio State University
- Troisieme Cycle Lectureship, Switzerland
- Van der Kerk Lectureship, University of Utrecht
- Lady Davis Fellowship, Technion, Israel
- Alfred Blomquist Lectureship, Cornell
- Rhodia Lecturer, French Chemical Society
- Chinese Academy of Science Lectureship,
- Gilbert Stork Lecture, Columbia University
- William Dauben Memorial Lectureship, University of California, Berkeley
- Novartis Chemistry Lectureship
- Wyeth Lectureship, University of Pennsylvania
- Campus Lecturer, Institut Catala d’Investigacle Quimica
- H. C. Brown Lecture, Purdue University
- W. S. Johnson Lecture, Stanford University
Editorial service
Associate editor
- Journal of Synthetic Organic Chemistry Japan
- Chemistry Letters
- Organic Letters
- Journal of the American Chemical Society
Editorial board
- Journal of Molecular Catalysis
- Ultrasonics Sonochemistry
- Topics in Stereochemistry
- Journal of Organometallic Chemistry
- Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry
- Organic Letters
- Accounts of Chemical Research
- Chemistry-An Asian Journal
- Angewandte Chemie
- Chemistry-An Asian Journal
Other
- Chairman/Founder, Tateshina Conference on Organic Chemistry
- Advisory Committee, Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- International Advisory Board, The Sixteenth International Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry