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, Transmission electron microscopy.

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
• 1995–2016 Professor, Department of Chemistry, The University of Tokyo
• 2004-2010 ERATO Nakamura Functional Carbon Cluster program research director, Japan Science and Technology Agency
• 2007-2016 The University of Tokyo, Chemistry Innovation Global COE Program Leader
• 2016.04-2019.03, Molecular Technology Innovation Chair Professor, The University of Tokyo
• 2019.04-present, University Professor, The University of Tokyo, Department of Chemistry
• 2024.12-present, Lecture Professor, Nankai University

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
• The Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award of ACS（2010）
• Centenary Prize 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry（2014）
• Foreign Member of the Royal Society
• The Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon

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 the American Chemical Society''

Editorial board

• ''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