Kei Murakami
Associate Professor

Education & Experience
2020-present
Associate Professor (PI)
Department of Chemistry, Kwansei Gakuin University
2016-2020
Designated Associate Professor
Institute of Transformative bio-Molecules, Nagoya University
2014-2016
Assistant Professor
Research Center for Materials Science, Nagoya University
2013-2014
Designated Assistant Professor
The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research / Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
2012-2013
Research Fellow of the JSPS (PD)
Graduate School of Engineering / Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules, Nagoya University
2010-2011
Visiting Student at California Institute of Technology (Prof. Brian M. Stoltz)
2009-2012
Ph.D. in Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
(Prof. Seijiro Matsubara, Prof. Koichiro Oshima, and Prof. Hideki Yorimitsu)
2007-2009
M.S. in Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
(Prof. Koichiro Oshima)
2003-2007
B.S. in Department of Engineering, Kyoto University (Prof. Koichiro Oshima)
2025-
FOREST researcher
2020-2025
PRESTO researcher
Awards
Publications
Editorial Board
2021. The Young Scientists' Award, The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
2021. Thieme Chemistry Journals Award 2021
2020. Chemist Award BCA 2020
2020. The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Young Chemists
2019. Chemical Society of Japan Lecture Award for Young Chemists
2015. Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan
2014. CSJ Presentation Award 2014
2013. Kyoto University Hakubi researcher
2012. The Reaxys PhD Prize 2012 finalist
2011. Otsu Academy Award Fellow (No.29)
2019 ~ present: Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry
(International Advisory Board)