Eiichi Nakamura (chemist)

Eiichi Nakamura (中村 栄一, Nakamura Eiichi, born 24 February 1951) is a Japanese chemist and professor of chemistry at University of Tokyo in Japan.

Education

• 1973 BS Faculty of Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Professor Teruaki Mukaiyama)
• 1978 PhD in chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Professor Isao Kuwajima)
• 1978-1980 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York (Professor Gilbert Stork)

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 (JST)
• 2007- The University of Tokyo, Chemistry Innovation Gobal 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 (JSPS), Research Center for Science Systems
• 2006-2008 Corresponding Member of the Science Council of Japan
• 2006-2007 Senior Program Officer (on funding scheme study), The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
• 2011- Program Director and Chair, Japan Agency for Science and Technology (JST)
• 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 (Chemical Society of Japan, 1984)
• Yamanouchi Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry (1991)
• Tejima Memorial Award (Tokyo Institute of Technology, 1992)
• The Japan IBM Science Prize (1993)
• Nagoya Silver Medal for Organic Chemistry (2001)
• The Chemical Society of Japan Award (2003)
• Humboldt Research Award (2006)
• The Medal with Purple Ribbon (Shiju Hosho) (His Majesty of Japan, 2009)
• the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award of ACS (2010)
• Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1998)
• Elected Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (U. K., 2005)
• Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2008)
• Honorary Member of the Israel Chemical Society (2009)

Special lectureships

• R. C. Fuson Visiting Professor, University of Illinois (1990)
• Syntex Distinguished Lectureship. Colorado State University (1996)
• Parke Davis-Warner Lambert Distinguished Lectureship, Ohio State University (1997)
• Troisieme Cycle Lectureship, Switzerland (2000)
• Van der Kerk Lectureship, University of Utrecht (2001)
• Lady Davis Fellowship, Technion, Israel (2002-3)
• Alfred Blomquist Lectureship, Cornell (2003)
• Rhodia Lecturer, French Chemical Society (2004)
• Chinese Academy of Science Lectureship, (Beijing, 2004)
• Gilbert Stork Lecture, Columbia University (2006)
• William Dauben Memorial Lectureship, University of California, Berkeley (2006)
• Novartis Chemistry Lectureship (2006-7)
• Wyeth Lectureship, University of Pennsylvania (2007)
• Campus Lecturer, Institut Catala d’Investigacle Quimica (Tarragona, 2007)
• H. C. Brown Lecture, Purdue University (2008)
• W. S. Johnson Lecture, Stanford University (2008)

Editorial service

Associate editor

• Journal of Synthetic Organic Chemistry Japan (1986-88 and 1998-2000)
• Chemistry Letters (1992-98)
• Organic Letters (2000-2005)
• Journal of the American Chemical Society (2009-)

Editorial board

• Journal of Molecular Catalysis (1994-2003)
• Ultrasonics Sonochemistry (1994-2003)
• Topics in Stereochemistry (1996-2006)
• Journal of Organometallic Chemistry (2002-2005)
• Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry (2003-2012)
• Organic Letters (2006-2008)
• Accounts of Chemical Research (2006-2008)
• Chemistry-An Asian Journal (2006-2009)
• Angewandte Chemie (International Advisory Board: 2006-2009)
• Chemistry-An Asian Journal (International Advisory Board: 2009-)

Other

• Chairman/Founder, Tateshina Conference on Organic Chemistry (2000-2010)
• Advisory Committee, Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (2001-2007)
• International Advisory Board, The Sixteenth International Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry (2002)

External links

• Nakamura Lab.

References