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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Theoretical Chemistry: Molecules, Materials, Surfaces,Theoretical Chemistry: Electron Structure, Dynamics, Simulation |
| Keywords | Artificial Force Induced Reaction Method, Theoretical Chemistry |
| Honours and awards | 2023: JACS Au Outstanding Paper Award (The American Chemical Society) 2021: CSJ Award for Creative Work (The Chemical Society of Japan) 2021: Nagakura Saburo Award (The Chemical Society of Japan) 2019: WATOC 2019 Dirac Medal (World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists) 2016: Lectureship Award MBLA (Banyu Life Science Foundation International) 2016: Morino Award for Molecular Science (Morino Foundation for Molecular Science) 2015: Banyu Chemist Award (Banyu Life Science Foundation International) 2015: JSPS Prize (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) 2015: Thieme Chemistry Journals Award 2016 (Thieme Chemistry) 2014: NISTEP Award (The National Institute of Science and Technology Policy) 2013: CSJ Award for Young Chemists (The Chemical Society of Japan) 2012: PCCP Prize (The Royal Society of Chemistry, The Chemical Society of Japan) 2010: Hakubi Researcher (Kyoto University) |
Current contact address
| Country | Japan |
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| City | Sapporo |
| Institution | Hokkaido University |
| Institute | Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (ICReDD) |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Benjamin List | Abteilung Homogene Katalyse, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim an der Ruhr |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 28/07/2025 |
Programme(s)
| 2025 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Maeda is one of the leading researchers in theoretical and organic chemistry. He has made outstanding contributions in developing the first computational reaction prediction method. With this achievement, he has opened up the possibility of building a database of predicted chemical reactions. He has also made significant contributions to mechanism elucidation and reaction discovery in the field of chemical synthesis. Professor Maeda´s work focuses on establishing a methodology for predicting unknown chemical reactions from first principles. He actively collaborates with researchers across disciplines to accelerate reaction design with computer scientists and to discover new chemical reactions with organic synthetic chemists. In Germany his work will focus on the mechanism elucidation of asymmetric reactions using organocatalysts. |