Eiichi Nakamura (chemist)

Eiichi Nakamura
Born	1951 Tokyo, Japan
Institutions	University of Tokyo
Alma mater	Tokyo Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor	Isao Kuwajima
Known for	Iron catalyst and fullerene chemistry
Notable awards	Medal with Purple Ribbon

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