Hitoshi Ishida
Hitoshi Ishida received his BEng, MEng, and DrEng at Osaka University, Japan, with research on electrochemical/photochemical CO2 reduction catalyzed by ruthenium complexes. He was an assistant professor at Kumamoto University, Japan from 1988 to 1997, a group leader for the Inoue Photochirogenesis project, Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO) of the Japan Science and Technology (JST) Corporation from 1997 to 2001, and an associate professor at the Graduate School of Science, Kitasato University, Japan from 2001 to 2020. He was also a researcher in the PRESTO Program “Chemical Conversion of Light Energy” of the JST from 2009 to 2015. He is currently a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Chemistry, Materials and Bioengineering, Kansai University, Japan.