Graduate School of Engineering

Nagoya University

B2-3(611), Furo-cho, Chikusa, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan

E-mail: ishihara(a)cc.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Tel: +81(52) 789 3331

PERSONAL

BornApril 26, 1963, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

EDUCATION

1981–1985 Bachelor of Engineering (under the supervision of Professor Hisashi Yamamoto), Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Engineering, Nagoya University

1985–1987 Master of Engineering (under the supervision of Professor Hisashi Yamamoto), Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University

1987–1991 Doctor of Engineering (under the supervision of Professor Hisashi Yamamoto), Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University

Thesis Title:  “Studies on Stereoselective Reactions of Acetals”

Visiting scholar under the supervision of Professor Clayton H. Heathcock at Department of Chemistry, University of Berkeley, California, USA for three months in 1987.]

EXPERIENCE

1991–1992 Postdoctoral Fellow under the supervision of Professor E. J. Corey at Department of Chemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

1992–1994 Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan

1994–1997 Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan

1997–2001Associate Professor, Research Center of Waste and Emission Management, Nagoya University, Japan

2001–2002Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan

Since 2002 Full Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan

AWARDS

(1) The 10th Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists (1994), (2) The 45th Young Chemist Award from the Chemical Society of Japan (1996), (3) Thieme Chemistry Journal Award (2001), (4) The 2nd Green & Sustainable Chemistry Award from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (2003), (5) The 1st JSPS Prize (2005), (6) BCSJ Award (2005), (7) The 21st Japan IBM Science Prize (2007), (8) The 5th Mukaiyama Award (2009), (9) The 27th Inoue Prize for Science (2011), etc.