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E-mail: hinaba at tottori-u.ac.jp (please change "at" to @.)
Place of birth: Azumino, Nagano, Japan
Date of birth: March 23, 1987
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Employment
- 2021 - present
JST-FOREST Researcher (Kitagawa panel) - 2021 - present
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Tottori University (PI: Prof. Kazunori Matsuura)
- 2016 - 2021
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Tottori University (PI: Prof. Kazunori Matsuura)
- 2015 - 2016
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (PI: Prof. Jefferson Chan)
- 2012 - 2014
JSPS Research Fellow (DC2), Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
Education
- 2015
Ph. D. in Engineering - 2011 - 2014
Ph. D. Course, Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University (Supervisor: Prof. Susumu Kitagawa)
- 2009 - 2011
M. Sc. Course, Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University (Supervisor: Prof. Yoshihito Watanabe)
- 2005 - 2009
B. Sc. Course, Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University (Supervisor: Prof. Yoshihito Watanabe)
Honors and Awards
- Award for Young Investigator 2024, The Japanese Peptide Society (July 2024)
- Young Scientist Award, MEXT (Apr. 2024)
- Tottori University Scientific Research Achievement Award (Feb. 2024)
- Best JOICO award, 2022 NIKON JOICO AWARD (Mar. 2023)
- Lecture Award, The 16th Symposium on Biorelevant Chemistry (Sept. 2022)
- The 71st CSJ Award for Young Chemists, The Chemical Society of Japan (Mar. 2022)
- Award for Encouragement of Research in Polymer Science, The Society of Polymer Science, Japan (May 2022)
- SPSJ Award for the Outstanding Paper in Polymer Journal 2020 sponsored by ZEON, The Society of Polymer Science, Japan (May 2021)
- Young Scientist Presentation Award, The 2nd Molecular Robotics Annual Meeting (Mar. 2019)
- Konica Minolta Image Science Encouragement Award (Jan. 2019)
- Young Scientist Presentation Award, The 28th Biopolymer Symposium (July 2018)
- Young Scientist Presentation Award (Good Stone Award), The 54th Japanese Peptide Symposium (Nov. 2017)
- CSJ Presentation Award, The 97th CSJ Annual Meeting (Mar. 2017)
- RSC Biomaterials Science Best Poster Award, The 6th iCeMS Retreat (Oct. 2014)
- SciFinder Future Leaders in Chemistry (Chemical Abstracts Service) (May 2014)
- CSJ Student Presentation Award, The 94th CSJ Annual Meeting (Mar. 2014)
- Poster Award, The 5th iCeMS Retreat (Sept. 2013)
- RSC Poster Prize, RSC Publishing-iCeMS Joint International Symposium (Sept. 2013)
- Poster Award, The 2th CSJ Chemistry Festa (Oct. 2012)
- Best Poster Award, The 24th Summar School of Division of Biofunctional Chemistry, The Chemical Society of Japan (July 2012)
- Poster Award, The 60th Conference of Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry (Sept. 2010)
Funding
- 2024 - 2025 Mitsubishi Foundation Natural Science Research Grant for Young Scientist
- 2024 - 2028 JST FOREST Phase 2
- 2024 - 2026 Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) Meso Hierarchy (Publicly Offered Research)
- 2024 - 2025 The Kyoto Technoscience Center Research Grant
- 2023 - 2024 JST ACT-X [Life and Chemistry] Acceleration Phase
- 2023 - 2026 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
- 2022 - 2023 ATI Research Grant
- 2021 - 2024 JST FOREST Phase 1
- 2020 - 2023 JST ACT-X [Life and Chemistry]
- 2019 - 2022 Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
- 2019 - 2021 The 30th Kato Memorial Research Grant
- 2019 - 2020 Inamori Research Grant
- 2019 - 2020 Konica Minolta Image Science Encouragement Award
- 2017 - 2019 Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
- 2012 - 2014 Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows
Scientific Society
- The Chemical Society of Japan
- Division of Biofunctional Chemistry, The Chemical Society of Japan
- The Society of Polymer Science, Japan
- Forum on Biopolymers Science, The Society of Polymer Science, Japan
- The Japanese Peptide Society
