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Associate Professor Kotaro Satoh Nagoya University Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering B2-3(611), Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku Nagoya Japan 464-8603 Email: satoh@apchem.nagoya-u.ac.jp Biographical Sketch: Kotaro Satoh was born in 1972 in Osaka, Japan. He received his B.S. (1995), M.S. (1997), and Ph.D. (2000) degrees in polymer chemistry from Kyoto University. His doctoral study was on the discovery of cationic polymerization systems in aqueous media under the direction of Professor Mitsuo Sawamoto. During 2000–2004, he worked for Tsukuba Research Laboratories, Kuraray Co Ltd. as a researcher to develop a novel thermoplastic elastomer via living anionic polymerization. In 2004, he moved to the Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Applied Chemistry, Nagoya University as an Assistant Professor working with Professor Masami Kamigaito and was promoted to an Associate Professor in 2007. He received the 2008 Awards for the Encouragement of Research in Polymer Science of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan. His research interests include exploring precision polymerization systems, as well as developments of new polymer materials by means of well-defined polymerizations. |