About HN

Solving problems related to organic/organometallic chemistry and catalysis. In particular,

1. Homogeneous/heterogeneous catalysis using simple substances (H2, H2O and CO2) for selective organic synthesis. 

2. Photocatalytic conversion of alcohols for fine chemical synthesis. 

3. Chemical biology based on transition metal complexes.

• 2020–                Associate Professor, Graduated School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan

• 2008–2020    Assistant Professor, Research Center for Materials Science, Nagoya University, Japan

• 2006–2008    Research Associate, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Japan

• 2008    Ph.D. in Chemistry, Nagoya University, Japan (Profs. Masanobu Uchiyama and Shigehiro Yamaguchi)

• 2005    Visiting Student at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands (Prof. Koop Lammertsma)

• 2005    M.S. in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Clinical Pharmacy, the University of Tokyo, Japan

• 2003    B.S. in Pharmaceutical Sciences, the University of Tokyo, Japan

• 2023–                Director of Deuterium Science Research Unit, Center for the Promotion of Interdisciplinary Education and Research, Kyoto University

• 2020-2023     Head Investigator of Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Area (B) "Deuterium Science"

• 2012–                Visiting Research Fellow at Tokyo University fo Science, Japan

• 2008–2010    Visitng Research Fellow at Hokuriku University, Japan

• 2006–2020    Visiting Research Fellow at RIKEN, Japan

• 2025   Innovative Precious Metals Award

• 2020    Incentive Award of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan 2019FY

• 2018    Toyota Riken Scholar

• 2015    Asian Core Program/Advanced Research Network Lectureship Award (Singapore) 

• 2014    Chemical Society of Japan Presentation Award

• 2005    JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC1)

• Researchmap

• At the Department of Organic Chemistry

• At the Deut-Switch Project (Japanese)

• At the Kyoto University Activity Database

• Interview at hotozero (Japanese)