KAKIUCHI Kiyomi
Executive Director / Vice President

Message
As a graduate school without undergraduate programs, NAIST students leave their undergraduate lives and start their new academic careers here. I look forward to their growth on our internationally open campus with our globally recognized faculty through research using state-of-the-art facilities and equipment, and their activities as distinguished NAIST graduates throughout all areas of industry, government and academia.
Professional Background
- 1977 :
- B.S. Department of Petrochemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Osaka University
- 1982 :
- Ph.D. (Engineering) Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University
- 1982-1995 :
- Assistant Professor, Department of Petrochemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Osaka University
- 1993-1994 :
- Research Associate, Scripps Research Institute, United States
- 1995-1996 :
- Lecturer, Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University
- 1996-1997 :
- Associate Professor, Venture Business Laboratory, Osaka University
- 1997-present :
- Professor, Graduate School of Materials Science, NAIST
- 1997-1999 :
- Councilor, NAIST
- 2004-2007 :
- Advisor to the President, NAIST
- 2007-2009 :
- Dean, Graduate School of Materials Science, NAIST
- 2009-2011 :
- Vice President, NAIST (Concurrent Post)
- 2013-2017 :
- Dean, Graduate School of Materials Science, NAIST
- 2017-present :
- Executive Director and Vice President, NAIST
Research Fields
Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Organic Photochemistry, Organometallic Chemistry
Academic and Social Activities
- The Kinki Chemical Society Japan Representative Delegate (2005 - present)
Chemical Technology Awards Review Committee Member (2001 - 2015)
Group for Research on Automated Flow and Microreactor Synthesis Committee Member (2004 - present)
Division of Organometallic Chemistry Committee Member (2013 - present) - The Japanese Photochemistry Association Director (2004 - 2005) (2008 - 2009) (2011 - 2012)
- The Asian and Oceanian Photochemistry Association (APA)
Councilor (2011 - 2012)
Secretary Treasurer (2013 - 2014) - The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan Representative Delegate (2013 - present)
Kansai Branch Committee Member (2008 - 2011) - Symposium on the Chemistry of Terpenes, Essential Oils, and Aromatics (TEAC)
Committee Member (2008 - present)
53rd TEAC 2009 Representative Organizer (2009) - The Chemical Society of Japan Committee Member (2000 - 2002)
Kinki Branch Committee Member (2007 - 2008) - Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Special Researcher Examination Board Expert Board Member and International Project Committee Document Review Member (2006 - 2008)
Kakenhi Committee Expert Board Member (2012 - 2014) - Japan Science and Technology Agency JST Innovation Plaza Osaka Advisor (2008 - 2012)
- Research Promotion Committee for the Development of Research centers towards the formation of the Okinawa Intellectual Cluster Program Committee Member (2012 - 2016)
- Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Materials Science Graduate School Academic Advisor (2008 - 2011)
- Ikoma City Foreign Resident Educational Promotion Forum Member (2010 - 2011)
- Keihanna Corporation Environmental Review Committee Member (2008 - present)
- Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth Technology Assessment Subcommittee Member (2000 - 2006)
- International Kyoto Conference on New Aspect of Organic Chemistry Executive Committee Member (1997, 2000, 2003)
Organizational Committee Member (2006, 2009, 2012, 2015) - International Symposium on Integrated Synthesis Organizational Committee Chairman (2008)
Organizational Committee Member (2004, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016)
Awards and recognition
- 1988 :
- The Chemical Society of Japan Young Researcher Special Lecturer Award
- 1992 :
- The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan Encouragement Award
Publications
- CO-Transfer Carbonylation Reactions. A Catalytic Pauson-Khand-Type Reaction of Enynes with Aldehydes as a Source of Carbon Monoxide, T. Morimoto, K. Fuji, K. Tsutsumi, and K. Kakiuchi, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 124 (15), 3806-3807 (2002).
- A novel route for the construction of Taxol ABC-ring framework: skeletal rearrangement approach to AB-ring and intramolecular aldol approach to C-ring, T. Enomoto, T. Morimoto, M. Ueno, T. Matsukubo, Y. Shimada, K. Tsutsumi, R. Shirai, and K. Kakiuchi, Tetrahedron, 64 (18), 4051-4059 (2008).
- Diastereoselective [2+2] Photocycloaddition of a chiral Cyclohexenone with Ethylene in a Continuous Flow Microcapillary Reactor, K. Terao, Y. Nishiyama, H. Tanimoto, T.; Morimoto, M. Oelgemöller, and K. Kakiuchi, J. Flow Chem., 2(3), 73-76 (2012).
- Regioselective Rapid Synthesis of Fully Substituted 1,2,3-Triazoles Mediated by Propargyl Cations, H. Zhang, H. Tanimoto, T. Morimoto, Y. Nishiyama, and K. Kakiuchi, Org. Lett., 15 (20), 5222-5225 (2013).
- Fluorescence and phosphorescence study of germanium-acetylene polymers and germa[N]pericyclynes, H. Tanimoto, T. Nagao, T. Fujiwara, T. Kadota, K. Tanaka, Y. Chujo, and K. Kakiuchi, Polymer Chem., 6 (43), 7495-7499 (2015).