 Professor Masaya Sawamura Masaya Sawamura is Professor of Chemistry at Hokkaido University. He received his Ph.D. degree from Kyoto University in 1989 under the supervision of Professor Yoshihiko Ito. In 1989, he joined the faculty of the same department as Assistant Professor. He spent one year as a researcher at Harvard University (Professor Stuart L. Schreiber, 1993–1994). In 1995, he moved to Tokyo Institute of Technology and to the University of Tokyo to join the group of Professor Eiichi Nakamura. He was promoted to Lecture in 1996 and to Associate Professor in 1997. In 2001, he moved to Sapporo to take his current position at Hokkaido University. He was awarded Eizai Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry in 1990 and The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Young Scientists in 1996. 1989 Ph.D. Kyoto University 1989 Assistant Professor, Kyoto University 1995 Assistant Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology 1995 Assistant Professor, University of Tokyo 1996 Lecturer, University of Tokyo 1997 Associate Professor, University of Tokyo 2001 Professor, Hokkaido University Honors 1990 Eizai Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry 1996 The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Young Scientists |
