April 1996 to March 2000	Bachelor of Engineering Undergraduate School of Industrial Chemistry, Kyoto University
April 2000 to March 2002	Master of Engineering Department of Chemical Engineering, Kyoto University
April 2002 to March 2005	Doctor of Philosophy Department of Chemical Engineering, Kyoto University
April 2005 to July 2011	Assistant Professor IMRAM, Tohoku University
August 2011 to March 2020	Associate Professor IMRAM, Tohoku University
April 2020 to present	Professor AIMR/IMRAM, Tohoku University

[Concurrent posts]

October 2013 to March 2017	PRESTO Researcher JST, Japan
Sptember 2016	Invited Professor Kasetsart University, Thailand
April 2017 to March 2018	Visiting Professor University of Calgary, Canada

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Jan 24, 2022

Selected for the Top20 of ILS(Innovation leaders summit)2022.

Oct 21, 2021

Selected to the NEDO Prize on Tohoku Univesity BIP business plan judging committee.

Sep 24, 2021

Won the grand award and the Real Tech Fund award. (Leave a Nest Co., Ltd.) "A new carbon material for opening new avenues for future."

May 19, 2021

Awarded the Real Tech Fund Prize. (City of Sendai and Samurai Incubate)

December 15, 2020

Selected for the 2020 edition of the Asian Scientist 100 list

October 15, 2020

Awarded the 2020 JACI Step-up Award.

June 26, 2019

Gottfried Wargener Prize 2019 (German Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan) "Development of advanced template techniques for functional carbon materials"

December 6, 2018

Best paper award (The Carbon Society of Japan) "Formation mechanism of zeolitetemplated carbons"

September 13, 2018

Publons Peer Review Awards 2018

June 15, 2017

Young Researcher Award (Japan Association for Chemical Innovation) "Development of New-Type of Heat Pump Based on Water Phase-Transition in Elastic Nanoporous Materials"

November 10, 2016

Young Researcher Award (The Japan Society on Adsorption) "Nanospace Control of Carbon Materials and Their Applications"

February 15, 2014

BCSJ Award "Large Pseudocapacitance in Quinone-Functionalized Zeolite-Templated Carbon"

March 8, 2012

Prize of the Tokin Foundation for Advancement of Science and Technology "Synthesis and applications of nanocarbon-based materials"

December 1, 2010

The Japan Carbon Society Award for Young Researcher "Development of Nanocarbons for Energy Storage"

January 15, 2009

Best Poster Award (in 2009 Gordon Research Conference on Hydrocarbon Resources) "Fabrication of high power electrochemical capacitor using zeolite templated carbon"

July 14, 2008

The Japan Carbon Award for Young Researcher (in Carbon 2008) "Understanding of the Electrochemical Process in Supercapacitor by using Zeolite Templated Carbon as a Model Material"

December 8, 2006

Award for Young Researchers of Hatano, "Synthesis of Functional Materials with Ice-Template Method"

June 5,2004

Best Presentation Award for Student (in Conference on Separation Process Engineers, Japan) "Control of Hierarchical Structure of Carbon Cryogels with Ice-Template Method"

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Papers (* corresponding author)

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Review, Highlight, Book (* corresponding author)

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Grant/Collaboration

2021 to 2024	JST The Strategic International Collaborative Research Program (SICORP) "Atomic Design of Carbon-Based Materials for New Normal Society (AtomDeC)"
2021 to 2022	Grant-in-Aid for challenging Research (Exploratory) "柔軟ナノ多孔体への応力印加による強制的吸着の発現"
2020 to 2021	TEPCO Memorial Foundation Research Grant (Basic Research) "柔軟なグラフェン多孔体による発電デバイスの開発"
2020-2022	JST ALCA-SPRING 新原理に基づく金属負極を有する高性能新電池の創製（PL：金村聖志） 高酸化耐性を有する多孔性炭素正極の開発（代表者）
2018-2023	JST CREST 新物質群「3次元カーボン構造体」と革新的触媒反応（PL：生越友樹） 3次元カーボン構造体合成法の拡張および一般化（代表者）
2017-2018	JST 「さきがけネットワーク」 有機化学的手法による結晶性３次元カーボン構造体の合成（PL：生越友樹） ３次元架橋ビルディングブロックの構造を維持した炭素化手法の一般化（代表者）
2017 to 2021	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) "Development of Porous Materials with Single-Layer Graphene Walls"
2016 to 2018	科研費・国際共同研究加速基金 "イオン液体を用いた異元素含有ゼオライト鋳型炭素の合成と応用"
2015 to 2016	Grant-in-Aid for challenging Exploratory Research "Nature-Inspired Mimic of Tree Xylem"
2014 to 2016	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) "Synthesis of Zeolite-Templated Carbon from Ionic Liquids"
2013 to 2016	JST PRESTO "Development of Graphene-Based Elastic Porous Materials"
2013 to 2014	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas "Synthesis of Nanocarbon-Based Fusion Materials"
2011 to 2013	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A) "Synthesis of Nanocarbon Jungle Gym for High Performance EDLC"
2011 to 2012	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas "Organic Semiconductors Embedded in an Inorganic Transparent Nanoporous Electrode for Photovoltaic Cells"
2010 to 2012	JST Advanced Low Carbon Technology Research and Development Programz "Li-Si based nanocomposites for rechargeable lithium-ion battery anodes"
2010 to 2011	Collaboration with Hokkaido University Catalysis Research Center "Development of Novel Catalysts based on Zeolite-Templated Carbons"
2009 to 2010	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) "Synthesis of Ordered Mesoporous Carbons Composed of Single Graphene Walls"
2008	Japan Science and Technology Agency "Synthesis of Porous Carbons with Very Large Water-Vapor Capacity and Their Use for Heat-Pump"
2007 to 2008	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) "Synthesis of Honeycomb Supports with Ultra-Low Pressure Drop under Mild Condition for Bio-Components"

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