Takashi Ishizone

Associate Professor Takashi Ishizone Tokyo Institute of Technology Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials 2-12-1-S1-13, Ohokayama, Meguro-ku Tokyo Japan 152-8552 Email: tishizon@polymer.titech.ac.jp Biographical Sketch: (Takashi Ishizone) was born in Saitama, Japan, in April, 1963. He received his M.S in polymer chemistry from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1988 under supervision of Professors Seiichi Nakahama and Akira Hirao and started his academic career as Assistant Professor from 1989. After receiving doctorate degree in 1994, he spent a postdoctoral research at The University of Chicago with Professor P. E. Eaton on organic chemistry in 1995. Since 2000 he is Associate Professor of Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials at Tokyo Institute of Technology. His current research interests are centered on synthesis of novel thermally-stable polymers possessing adamantyl groups and synthesis of novel water-soluble thermo-responsive polymers by means of living anionic polymerization. He has published more than 90 referred scientific journals and several book chapters and given 20 invited lectures at international symposium.