Masami Kamigaito

Professor Masami Kamigaito Nagoya University Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering B2-3(611), Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku Nagoya Japan 464-8603 Email: kamigait@apchem.nagoya-u.ac.jp Biographical Sketch: Masami Kamigaito was born in 1965 in Nagoya, Japan. He received his B.S. (1988), M.S. (1990), and Ph.D. (1993) degrees in polymer chemistry from Kyoto University under the direction of Professor Toshinobu Higashimura. After conducting postdoctoral research with Professor Mitsuo Sawamoto, he joined the faculty of Kyoto University in 1995, where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 1999. In 2003, he moved to Nagoya University as an Associate Professor, working with Professor Yoshio Okamoto, and was promoted to Professor in 2004. In 1997–1998, he was a visiting scientist at Stanford University, working with Professor Robert M. Waymouth. He is the recipient of the 2001 Arthur K. Doolittle Award from the ACS’s PMSE Division and the 2009 Wiley Polymer Science Award from the Society of Polymer Science, Japan. His research interests include controlled radical and cationic polymerizations, the development of new polymerizations, and their applications to precision polymer synthesis.