Toshiaki Murai
University of Gifu, Japan
Biography
Professor Toshiaki Murai was born in Osaka, Japan on December 23, 1957. He received a B.S. degree in petroleum chemistry in 1980 from Osaka University. He joined Professor Shinzi Kato’s group at Gifu University as a research assistant in 1983. He obtained a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Osaka University in 1986 under the guidance of Professor Shinji Murai (supervisor: Professor Noboru Sonoda). He worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Professor Sessler’s group at the University of Texas at Austin for two years from 1986. In June 1990, he was promoted to Associate Professor and in April 2001 was promoted to Full Professor.