Shinichi Nakatsuji
University of Hyogo, Japan
Biography
Shin’ichi Nakatsuji obtained his PhD from Osaka University on the chemistry of dehydroannulenes in the field of structural organic chemistry. After studied as a JSPS postdoctoral fellow at the same university, he joined Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Nagasaki University, first as an assistant then as an associate professor and worked in the field of dye chemistry and organic analytical chemistry. He worked one year at TH (now TU) Darmstadt in west Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow. He then moved to the newly founded Faculty of Science at Himeji Institute of Technology (since 2004 University of Hyogo), where he has initiated the studies on the development of new functional organic materials, such as organic conductors, organic magnetic materials, liquid crystals, and organic batteries. He has recently been retired the university and is now a professor emeritus. He has published over 220 scientific papers and has been awarded the distinction of Doctor Honoris Causa from Technical University of Iasi in Romania.