Eiichi Nakamura (chemist)

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