is a Japanese chemist specializing in

chemoinformatics Cheminformatics (also known as chemoinformatics) refers to the use of physical chemistry theory with computer and information science techniques—so called "''in silico''" techniques—in application to a range of descriptive and prescriptive pr ...

and data-driven chemistry, a professor emeritus at

University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo (, abbreviated as in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era ins ...

, and the research director of the Data Science Center at

Nara Institute of Science and Technology , abbreviated as NAIST, is a Japanese national university located in Ikoma, Nara of Kansai Science City. It was founded in 1991 with a focus on research and consists solely of graduate schools in three integrated areas: Biological Sciences, Infor ...

Biography

He graduated from

Kagoshima Prefectural Konan High School is an upper secondary school in Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. It is a co-educational public school. Overview Before the school system was reformed after World War II, this school used to be known as and .Under the old system of e ...

in 1974 and from Department of Chemistry, School of Science,

Kyushu University , abbreviated to , is a public research university located in Fukuoka, Japan, on the island of Kyushu. Founded in 1911 as the fourth Imperial University in Japan, it has been recognised as a leading institution of higher education and resear ...

in 1978. He completed Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyushu University and obtained a doctorate in science in 1983. After he served as an associate professor at

Toyohashi University of Technology Toyohashi University of Technology (豊橋技術科学大学; ''Toyohashi Gijutsu Kagaku Daigaku''), often abbreviated to Toyohashi Tech or TUT, is a national engineering university located in Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan. Distinguished for the upp ...

, he became a professor at Department of Chemical System Engineering, School of Engineering,

in 2004. He concurrently holds the posts of a professor and the research director of the Data Science Center at

from 2017. He was also invited as visiting professor at

University of Strasbourg The University of Strasbourg (, Unistra) is a public research university located in Strasbourg, France, with over 52,000 students and 3,300 researchers. Founded in the 16th century by Johannes Sturm, it was a center of intellectual life during ...

in France in 2011. The Division of Chemical Information of the

American Chemical Society The American Chemical Society (ACS) is a scientific society based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry. Founded in 1876 at New York University, the ACS currently has more than 155,000 members at all ...

gave him the

Herman Skolnik Award The Herman Skolnik Award is awarded annually by the Division of Chemical Information of the American Chemical Society, "to recognize outstanding contributions to and achievements in the theory and practice of chemical information science". the awa ...

in 2019 for his contributions to structure elucidation, de novo structure generation and applications of cheminformatics methods to materials design and chemical process control. He also received the for 2020. In 2021, he retired from University of Tokyo at mandatory age and was given the title of professor emeritus.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Funatsu, Kimito 1955 births Living people 20th-century Japanese chemists 21st-century Japanese chemists Cheminformatics Academic staff of the University of Tokyo Academic staff of Nara Institute of Science and Technology Kyushu University alumni Scientists from Kagoshima Prefecture