Kazunari Dōmen
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Kazunari Dōmen | |
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堂免一成 | |
| Born | 24 September 1953 |
| Alma mater | University of Tokyo |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | Photocatalytic Reaction on Some Semiconductor Powders |
| Website | https://www.shinshu-u.ac.jp/institution/rism/domen-hisatomi-lab/en/ |
Kazunari Dōmen is a Japanese chemist at the University of Tokyo and Shinshū University. He is known for his work on the large-scale synthesis of hydrogen by photocatalytic water splitting.[1]
Dōmen earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Tokyo in 1976, a master's degree in 1979, and a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1982 with his thesis Photocatalytic Reaction on Some Semiconductor Powders.[2] In the same year he was appointed assistant professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He stayed as a postdoctoral fellow at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San José, California in 1985/86. He was promoted to associate professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1990 and received a full professorship in 1996. Dōmen returned to his alma mater in 2004 as a professor.[2] Together with Takashi Hisatomi, he has also been running a research laboratory at Shinshū University since 2017.[3]