PERSONAL DATA

Name: Hironori Izawa
Nationality: Japan

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
• Ph.D. Engineering, March 2010
Department of Nano-structures & Advanced Materials, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Kagoshima University
Supervisor: Prof. Jun-ichi Kadokawa

• M.A. Engineering, March 2005
Department of Bioengineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University
Supervisor: Prof. Shin-ichiro Shoda

• B.A. Engineering, March 2003
Department of Functional Materials Engineering, Toyama National College of Technology
Supervisor: Prof. Hirofumi Kuroda

WORK EXPERIENCE
• April 2005 – September 2006
Seiko PMC Corporation

• April 2010 – July 2012
Postdoctoral fellow of Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), National Institute for Materials Sciecne (NIMS), Supermolecules Group (Group Reader: Katsuhiko Ariga)

• August 2012 – December 2019
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Tottori University

• January 2020 – present
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Faculty of Engineering, Tottori University

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

H. Izawa* “Preparation of bio-based wrinkled surfaces via lignification mimetic reactions and drying: A new approach to develop surface wrinkling” Polymer Journal, 49, 759–765 (2017).(Reveiw)

H. Izawa,* N. Okuda, S. Ifuku, M. Morimoto, H. Saimoto,* O. J. Rojas “Bio-based wrinkled surfaces harnessed from biological design principles of wood and peroxidase activity” ChemSusChem, 8, 3892–3896 (2015).

H. Izawa,* S. Nishino, M. Sumita, K. Morihashi, S. Ifuku, M. Morimoto, H. Saimoto “A novel 1,8-Naphthalimide derivative with an open space for an anion: Unique fluorescence behaviour depending on the binding anion’s electrophilic property” Chemical Communications, 51, 8596-8599 (2015).