Achievements
●Current Domestic / International Activities
- Emeritus Researcher of National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan (2018-present)
- Society of Polymer Science, Japan (SPSJ) Fellow (2017-present)
- Specially Appointed Fellow, Center for Research and Development Strategy
(CRDS), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) (2015-2021)
- Board Member of World Materials Research Institute Forum (WMRIF) (2012-2017)
- Board of Directors, Technology Research Association for Single Wall Carbon
Nanotubes (TASC), Japan (2012-2017)
- Editorial Board Members, the Chemical Records (John Wiley & Sons,
Inc.) (2003-2013)
- Collaborative Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Tsukuba, Japan (1997-2012)
- Guest Editor, Advances in Polymer Science (Springer-Verlag) (2007-2008)
- Project Director of "Supramolecular Nanotube Architectonics and
the Nano-bio Applications", the Solution Oriented Research for Science
and Technology (SORST), Japan Science and Technology (JST) (2005-2009)
- Project Director of "Functional High-Axial-Ratio Nanostructure Assembly for Nano-Space Engineering", the Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology (JST) (2001-2005)
- Project Leader of "Creation Technology: Polymer Objects", Industrial
Chemistry Technology R&D System by Agency of Industrial Science and
Technology (AIST), "Creative Highly Functional Materials, Japan (2000-2005)
- Project Leader of "Concept and Demonstration of Polymer Objects", NEDO Proposal Public Offering for the Priority Field Research and Development Project, Japan (1996-1997)
●Awards:
- Society of Polymer Science, Japan (SPSJ) Fellow (September, 2017)
- Examination Committee Award of the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) (November, 2015)
- SPSJ Mitsubishi Chemical Award, 2013: Development of Self-Organized Nanotube
Materials and the Application to a Bioengineering Field (September, 2013)
- 2007 OrgaTechno Materials Category Award (July, 2006)
- The Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ) Award for Creative Work for 2006: Molecular Self-Assembly into One-Dimensional Nanotube Architectures and Exploitation of Their Functions (March, 2007)
- Award of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan (SPSJ): Bottom-Up Synthesis
and Morphological Control of High-Axial-Ratio Nanostructures (May, 2002)
- The 58th Notable Invention Selection Certificate of the Science and Technology
Agency: Fabrication Method of Vesicle-Encapsulated Micro-Tubular Materials
(November, 1998)
- The Minister's Award of Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI): Studies on Novel Synthetic Technology for Organic Fibrous Materials (October, 1998)
- Director's Award of National Institute of Materials Science and Technology (January, 1998)
