TOPIC: Palladium Meets Gold: Peculiar Activity of Bimetallic Gold/Palladium Alloy Nanoclusters 
SPEAKER: 樱井英博 教授，日本大阪大学

TIME:OCTOBER 15 (Thursday) PM16:00 
LOCATION: Fifth-floor Lecture Hall, Chemistry Building A (化学A楼5楼演讲厅) 
INVITER: Prof. Wanbin Zhang (张万斌教授)
 

报告人简介：
Hidehiro SAKURAI
Professor,
Division of Applied Chemistry, School of Engineering
Osaka University
Email: hsakurai@chem.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp

MEMBERSHIP OF SOCIETIES:
        Chemical Society of Japan
   American Chemical Society

EDUCATIONAL CAREER
        1985-1989     Department of Chemistry, The University of Tokyo
        1989-1994     Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo   (Supervisor: Professor Koichi Narasaka)
      1994           Ph. D (The University of Tokyo)

ACADEMIC CAREER
        1992-1994        JSPS doctoral fellow, The University of Tokyo (Professor Koichi Narasaka)
        1994-1996        Assistant Professor, The University of Tokyo
        1996-1998        JSPS postdoctoral fellow, University of Wisconsin (Professor Charles P. Casey)
        1998-2000        Assistant Professor, The University of Tokyo
        2000-2004        Associate Professor, Osaka University
      2004-2014        Associate Professor, Institute for Molecular Science
      2007-2011        JST-PRESTO researcher
      2012-present     PI of JST-ACT-C Project
      2014-present     Professor, Osaka University

AWARD
        2013        IUPAC Distinguished Award on Novel Materials and their Synthesis
        2014        The CSJ Award for Creative Work

CURRNT RESEARCH FIELD
        1. Synthesis and Properties of non-planar aromatic compounds “Buckybowls”
        2. Development of metal nanocluster catalyst
        3. Synthesis and reactions of organometallic compounds