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Sex ; Male Born ; March 8, 1947 Nationality ; Japanese Degree ; PhD of Science（Tohoku University, 1978.9） Present position ; Invited Professor, Institute for NanoScience Design（INSD), Osaka University Address ; 1-3 Machikaneyama-machi, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531 Japan Tel ; +81-6-6850-6993 Fax ; +81-6-6850-6398 E-mail ; watarai@chem.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp Education 1969 ; BC of Science, Department of Chemsitry, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University 1971 ; MC of Science, Department of Chemsitry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University 1978 ; PhD of Science, Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University Academic carrier 1971 ; Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University 1975 ; Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University 1981-1982 ; Associate Researcher, Prof. Henry Freiser's laboratory, University of Arizona 1982 ; Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Education, Akita University 1983 ; Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Education, Akita University 1988 ; Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Education, Akita University 1993 ; Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Osaka University 1996 ; Professor, Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University Contribution in University administration 2008- ; Senator, Vice-Dean of the Graduate School of Science, Osaka University 2006-2007 ; Vice-Dean of the Graduate School of Science, Osaka University Contribution in academic society and national agency 2009- ; President of the Magneto-Science Society of Japan 2008- ; President of the Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry 2008- ; Fellow of IUPAC, Division of Analytical Chemistry 2007- ; Officer of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) 2007- ; Adviser of Core Research for Evolution Science and Technology (CREST) of Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) 2004-2007 ; Editor-in-chief of "Analytical Sciences" of the Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry 2006-2007 ; National Representative of Japan for the Analytical Chemistry Division of IUPAC 2005- ; Adviser of Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PREST) of Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) 2003-2007 ; Vice-president of the Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry 2006- ; Vice-chair of the Analytical Chemistry Division of the Chemical Society of Japan 2006- ; Advisory Board of "Solvent Extraction and Ion Exchange" 2003- ; Member of the International Committee of Solvent Extraction Awards 2000.3.29 The Divisional Award of The Chemical Society of Japan 2003.9.24 The Analytical Chemistry Award from the Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry 2006 Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. Award Research Interests and Achievement 1. Nano-chemistry at the liquid-liquid interface including the development of new measurement methods of the liquid-liquid interface toelucidate the mechanisms of interfacial reactions in solvent extraction and interfacial chiralaggregation, such as a centrifugal liquid membrane (CLM) circular dichroism (CD) method, second harmonic generation-CD method, and Raman optical activity (ROA) method. 2. Development of new analytical principles by using external fields including laser photophoresis, dielectrophoresis, electromagnetophoresis, magnetophoresis and nano-gap method for micro-particle analysis. 3. Creation of new Magneto-Analytical Chemistry including novel magnetic mass analysis, and magneto-optical spectroscopy and imaging. Recent Publications (Please refer the home page of Watarai Lab.)