Kimito Funatsu

Kimito Funatsu
船津 公人 (Funatsu Kimito)
Born(1955-12-03)December 3, 1955
Alma materKyushu University
Known forChemoinformatics
Data-driven chemistry
AwardsHerman Skolnik Award (2019)
Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work (2020)
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsUniversity of Tokyo
NAIST
Toyohashi Tech
Thesis Deuterium isotope effects in solvolysis reactions  (1983)

Kimito Funatsu (船津 公人, Funatsu Kimito, born December 3, 1955)[1] is a Japanese chemist specializing in chemoinformatics and data-driven chemistry, a Professor Emeritus at University of Tokyo, and the research director of the Data Science Center at Nara Institute of Science and Technology.

Biography

He graduated from Kagoshima Prefectural Konan High School in 1974[2] and from Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Kyushu University in 1978.[3] He completed Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyushu University and obtained a doctorate in science in 1983.[3] After he served as an Associate Professor at Toyohashi University of Technology, he became a Professor at Department of Chemical System Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Tokyo in 2004.[3] He concurrently holds the posts of a Professor and the research director of the Data Science Center at Nara Institute of Science and Technology from 2017.[3] He was also invited as visiting professor at University of Strasbourg in France in 2011.[3]

The Division of Chemical Information of the American Chemical Society gave him the Herman Skolnik Award in 2019 for his contributions to structure elucidation, de novo structure generation and applications of cheminformatics methods to materials design and chemical process control.[4][5] He also received the Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work (日本化学会 学術賞) for 2020.[6] In 2021, he retired from University of Tokyo at mandatory age[7] and was given the title of Professor Emeritus.[8]

References

  1. ^ "東京大学化学システム工学専攻船津研究室 − 船津公人教授 (in Japanese)". Archived from the original on 9 September 2021. Retrieved 5 October 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. ^ 「甲南塾」 企画委員会, ed. (March 2006). 甲南新書 第五集 (in Japanese). Japan: 鹿児島県立甲南高等学校.
  3. ^ a b c d e "東京大学 令和2年度退職教員の紹介 大学院工学研究科 船津公人教授" (PDF) (in Japanese). 東京大学 (University of Tokyo). Retrieved 2021-10-05.
  4. ^ "The Herman Skolnik Award". acscinf.org. American Chemical Society Division of Chemical Information. Retrieved 2021-10-05.
  5. ^ "【お知らせ】2019 Herman Skolnik Awardを船津公人教授が受賞". 日本化学会 (in Japanese). 日本化学会（The Chemical Society of Japan). 2018-10-16. Retrieved 2021-10-05.
  6. ^ "【お知らせ】2020年度各賞受賞者が決定". 日本化学会 (in Japanese). 日本化学会（The Chemical Society of Japan）. 2021-01-07. Retrieved 2021-10-05.
  7. ^ "東京大学化学システム工学専攻船津研究室 − ホーム「船津公人教授の定年退職について」 (in Japanese)". Archived from the original on 9 September 2021. Retrieved 5 October 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  8. ^ "令和３年度 東京大学名誉教授" (PDF) (in Japanese). 東京大学 (University of Tokyo). p. 1. Retrieved 2021-10-05.