Masami SAKAMOTO

Masami Sakamoto, Professor of Graduate School of Engineering at Chiba University, was born in 1957 in Ibaraki. He received B. of Science (1979), M. of Science (1982), and D. of Science (1987) degrees from The University of Tsukuba. In 1985, he joined Faculty of Engineering at Chiba University as a Research Associate (1985-1994), appointed to Associate Professor in 1994, and promoted to Professor of Graduate School of Engineering at Chiba University in 2003. His major field is organic synthesis and solid-state chemistry. His current interests include 1) Dynamic preferential crystallization and 2) Asymmetric synthesis using crystal chirality. He received the Molecular Chirality Award from the Molecular Chirality Research Organization in 2014.

Hidehiro UEKUSA

Hidehiro Uekusa, Associate Professor of Department of Chemistry at Tokyo Institute of Technology, was born in 1964 in Tokyo. He received B. of Science (1987), M. of Science (1989), and D. of Science (1992) degrees from Keio University. In 1992, he joined the Department of Chemistry at Tokyo Institute of Technology as a Research Associate (1992-1999), and appointed to Associate Professor in 1999. His major field is chemical crystallography. His current interests include 1) Crystal structure and properties design of pharmaceutical crystals, 2) Analysis of crystalline state reactions, and 3) Crystal structure analysis from powder diffraction data. He received the Research Award from the Crystallographic Society of Japan in 2012.