Kimito Funatsu
Prof. Kimito Funatsu was born on December 3, 1955, in Japan. He received his Doctor degree (Dr. Sci.; physical organic chemistry) from Kyushu University which is one of the oldest imperial universities (1983) and joined Prof. Shin-ichi Sasaki’s group, Toyohashi University of Technology (1984) as research associate. During his research in Prof. Sasaki’s group, he worked on chemoinformatics field, i.e., Structure elucidation system CHEMICS, organic synthesis design system AIPHOS, molecular design. In 1990 he took the post of associate professor. In 2004 he moved to The University of Tokyo as full Professor to continue the same research work. Recently he is trying material design and soft senssensors is a chair of Division of chemical information and computer sciences, Chemthe ical Society of Japan.