Yoshiaki Nishibayashi

Yoshiaki Nishibayashi received his Ph.D. in 1995 from Kyoto University under the supervision of Professor Sakae Uemura. He became an assistant professor at the University of Tokyo in 1995 and moved to Kyoto University in 2000. In 2005, he became an associate professor at the University of Tokyo as PI. Since 2016, he has been a full professor at the University of Tokyo. He received the Chemical Society of Japan Award for Distinguished Young Chemists in 2001, the Minister Award for Distinguished Young Scientists Japan in 2005, the JSPS Prize in 2012, the Green & Sustainable Chemistry Honorable Award in 2012, the Nissan Chemical Industries Award for Novel Reaction & Method from the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan in 2016, the Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry Award for Creative Work in 2017, the Inoue Prize for Science in 2018, the Prizes for Science and Technology (Research Category) in the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2018, and the Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work in 2021. His current research interests are focused on organic and organometallic chemistry.