Kazuhito Hashimoto

Hashimoto spent most of his career at the University of Tokyo, where he earned BSc (1978), MSc (1980) and PhD (1985) degrees in physical chemistry. Between 1980 and 1989 he worked as a researcher at the Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki, Aichi. After that he lectured at the University of Tokyo, where in 1997 he was promoted to full professor, and in 2004 became Director of Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology. In 2016 he was appointed as president of NIMS in Tsukuba. Hashimoto is an executive member of the Council for Industrial Competitiveness and of the Council for Science, Technology and Innovation at the Cabinet Office of Japan.^[1][2]

According to the Web of Science Hashimoto has co-authored 3 articles with more than 1700 citations each:

• Wang, Rong; Hashimoto, Kazuhito; Fujishima, Akira; Chikuni, Makota; Kojima, Eiichi; Kitamura, Atsushi; Shimohigoshi, Mitsuhide; Watanabe, Toshiya (1997). "Light-induced amphiphilic surfaces". Nature. 388 (6641): 431–432. Bibcode:1997Natur.388..431W. doi:10.1038/41233. S2CID 4417645.
• Hashimoto, Kazuhito; Irie, Hiroshi; Fujishima, Akira (2005). "TiO₂ photocatalysis: A historical overview and future prospects". Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 44 (12): 8269–8285. Bibcode:2005JaJAP..44.8269H. doi:10.1143/JJAP.44.8269. S2CID 3521064.
• Irie, Hiroshi; Watanabe, Yuka; Hashimoto, Kazuhito (2003). "Nitrogen-Concentration Dependence on Photocatalytic Activity of TiO_2−xN_x Powders". The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 107 (23): 5483–5486. doi:10.1021/jp030133h.