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Ryuhei Nakamura

I am an electrochemist and the electron flow is always the key word for my research. My group in RIKEN CSRS has been working on biologically inspired catalysts and their application to energy conversion and production systems. Specifically, the group attempts to exploit the nature's ingenuities for multi-electron catalytic reaction, metabolic regulation by external redox stimuli, as well as employ robust energy management in the deep sea environment to develop novel materials and systems necessary to effectively manage renewable energy sources.

In 2017, I concurrently serve as a Professor of Earth Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Tokyo Institute of Technology, which is assigned to the World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI) of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). In ELSI, I have intended to integrate electrochemistry, microbiology, and geology to seek one of the vital questions of general science, the Origin of Life.