“Submarine Hydrothermal Vents as Natural Nano- to Microfluidic Devices“
Prof. Ryuhei Nakamura (RIKEN / Tokyo Institute of Technology) is an expert in the development of biologically inspired catalysts and their application to energy conversion. After earning his PhD at Osaka University, he was appointed as a JSPS fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA). In 2006, he returned to Japan as an Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo. Since 2013, he has been Team Leader at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, and since 2017, he has also served as a professor at the Earth-Life Science Institute (Tokyo Institute of Technology), part of the prestigious WPI program. He has authored over 140 publications, many of which in high-impact journals such as Science, Nature Catalysis, and Nature Communications. He has received numerous awards, including the Honda-Fujishima Prize (2005), the NAGASE Prize (2011), and the Young Scientist’s Prize from MEXT (2016). In 2016, he was invited to the 24th Solvay Conference on Chemistry.