Researcher's Profile

  • Project Associate Professor
  • Hiromu KUMAGAI
  • Renewable Fuel Global Network
E-mail
kumagaienesys.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Tel
03-5452-5720
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Biography

April 2015 Project Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
April 2016 Project Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology
April 2019 Assistant Professor, Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University
April 2022 Project Associate Professor, RCAST, UTokyo

Research Interests

Renewable energy resources and chemical raw materials are required to replace fossil fuel resources in order to realize sustainable energy systems and carbon recycling societies. I am studying photocatalytic or photoelectrochemical reactions using inexhaustible sunlight as an energy source such as hydrogen production from water and reduction of carbon dioxide are called artificial photosynthesis. The research focuses on the following themes.
(1) Development of photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical systems using inorganic materials such as semiconductors.
(2) Development of a new artificial photosynthesis system by combining different materials such as organic and inorganics.
(3) Examination for the creation of sustainable energy carriers by water splitting and reduction of carbon dioxide and their social implementation.

Award

  • March 2020 The 16th Honda-Fujishima Prize, The Photoelectrochemistry Reseach Group of the Electrochemical Society of Japan
  • March 2021 31st (Reiwa 2nd year) TOKIN Science and Technology Award, TOKIN Science and Technology Promotion

Keywords

Photoelectrochemistry, Photocatalysis, Hydrogen enegy system

Educational Systems

  • Department of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, School of Engineering

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