Kitagawa Hiroshi

Hiroshi Kitagawa received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University in 1992. He was assistant professor at IMS & JAIST, associate professor at University of Tsukuba, and professor at Kyushu University. In 2009, he returned back to the original laboratory at Kyoto University. He held a visiting appointment at Royal Institution of Great Britain (1993-1994). He is now Vice Provost and Deputy Executive-Vice President for Research at Kyoto University. He is engaged at JST as Research Director of “Science and Creation of Innovative Catalysts”, PRESTO. His research fields are solid-state chemistry, coordination chemistry, nano-science, low-dimensional electron system, and molecule-based conductors.