Professor

Tetsuo Kondo

Degree:
1. Ph.D in Agriculture (Wood Chemistry) from The University of Tokyo
2. Ph.D. in Engineering (Polymer physical chemistry) from Kyoto University.
Education
1983 BSc from The University of Tokyo.
1988 Ph.D. in Science from The University of Tokyo.
2000 Second Ph.D. in Engineering (Polymer Science) from Kyoto University.

Professional Positions
1988 Post-Doctoral fellow and Research associate at Department of Chemistry in McGill University.
(~1992). (Under supervision of Prof. D. G. Gray)
1992 Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI) as a research scientist.
1993 Senior Research Scientist at FFPRI.
2003 Associate Professor at Kyushu University, (Polymer Science of Biomaterials, Lab., Graduate
School of Bioresources and Bioenvironmental Science)
2005 Professor at Kyushu University (Biomaterial Design, Lab, Bio-Architecture Center (KBAC) & Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences)
2010 Professor at Faculty of Agriculture, Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, Kyushu University at present.

(Lecture at other Universities etc.)
Adjunct Professor in Shizuoka University, Visiting Professor in Department of Organic and Macro-molecular Chemistry, Friedrich-Shiller University at Jena (Germany), Lecturer at Graduate School of Agricultural Life Science, The University of Tokyo, and Faculty of Engineering at Kanazawa University.
Visiting scholar for Department of Chemistry, Polymer Physics, Wuhan University (China).

Executive Committee member in the Cellulose Society of Japan (from 2000), and Wood Science Society of Japan (from 2002). Program committee member at Cellulose and Biomaterials section of American Chemical Society (ACS) (from 2001).
Editorial board: “Cellulose” and “Holzforshung”,

Awards and Honors
1985 Honoring award of 100 years’ anniversary of the University of Tokyo for graduate course students.
1996 Award Winner of “The Cellulose Society of Japan Award for 1996”
Title: “Characterization of hydrogen bonds involved in cellulosics using regioselectively substituted cellulose derivatives as cellulose models.”
2005 Award Winner of 2005 for ”The Society of Fiber Science and Tecnology, Japan”
Title: “A Hierarchical Organizing Design for a Bottom-up 3-D Architecture Using a Bacterium Extruding a Cellulose Nanofiber.”
2010 International Academy of Wood Science has elected Prof. Dr.Tetsuo Kondo as Fellow in the year.

Research subjects:
Bio-Alchemy including Nano-material Design, Polymer Physicochemistry, Carbohydrate Polymer Chemistry



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