Seiji Shinkai

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Seiji Shinkai (新海征治, Shinkai Seiji, born July 5, 1944) is a Japanese chemist and professor of Kyushu University Institute for Advanced Study (高等研究院),^[1] and emeritus professor.

Early life

Shinkai was born in Fukuoka prefecture, Japan, in 1944. He completed his B.S. in 1967 and Ph.D. in 1972 from Kyushu University.

Academic career

He became a lecturer at Kyushu University in 1972. From 1972 to 1974, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He joined Kyushu University in 1975 and became a full professor there in 1988.

Research

Shinkai is known for his pioneering research in molecular self-assembly. Molecular self-assembly is the assembly of molecules without guidance or management from an outside source.

His main field of expertise and research interests are Host Guest Chemistry, Molecular Recognition, Liquid Crystals/Organic Gelators Sugar Sensing/Sugar-Based Combinatorial Chemistry, Polysaccharide-Polynucleotide Interactions, Sol-Gel Transcription and Inorganic Combinatorial Chemistry.

He was the winner of the Izatt-Christensen International Award in 1998.

References

"CV of Seiji Shinkai". ISIhighlycited.com. Retrieved 2007-11-10.
"Seiji Shinkai". Kyushu University. Archived from the original on 2008-01-22. Retrieved 2007-11-10.

↑ 九州大学・高等研究院・組織・メンバー(written in Japanese)

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