Shokyoku Kanaoka

Associate Prof. Shokyoku Kanaoka Osaka University Macromolecular Science 1-1 Machikaneyama Toyonaka Japan 560-0043 Email: kanaoka@chem.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp Biographical Sketch: Shokyoku Kanaoka was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1965. He studied polymer chemistry at Kyoto University, receiving his B.S. in 1988, M.S. in 1990 and Ph.D. in 1993 In graduate school, he worked under the supervision of Professor Toshinobu Higashimura and Professor Mitsuo Sawamoto. After a subsequent postdoctoral appointment at California Institute of Technology, working with Professor Robert H. Grubbs, he joined the faculty at the University of Shiga Prefecture in 1995 as an assistant professor. In 2002, he moved to Osaka University, where he was promoted to associate professor in 2004. His research interests include the development of new initiating systems for living cationic polymerization and the precision synthesis of sequence- and/or shape-controlled polymers with various functional groups, among which star-shaped and multibranched polymers have been main subjects of his research.