Name: Noritatsu TSUBAKI　(used name: Li FAN)

Date of Birth: August, 1965
Status: Professor
Nationality: Japanese



Education:

Bachelor of Science, Dept. of Chemical Physics, School of Chemistry and Material,University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China, 1987/8

Master of Engineering, Dept. of Chemical Energy, The University of Tokyo, 1992/3

Dr. Engineering, Dept. of Applied Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, 1995/3


Employment Track:

 From   To     Employer/Title
1995/4  1998/3   Assistant Professor, Dept. of Applied Chem., School of Eng., The University of Tokyo

1998/4  1999/6   Lecturer, Dept. of Applied Chem., School of Eng., The University of Tokyo

1999/7  2001/3   Associate Professor, Dept. of Applied Chem., School of Eng., The University of Tokyo

2001/4   now   Professor, School of Engineering, University of Toyama

2021/4   now   Director, Sustainable Technology Research Center, University of Toyama

2022/4   now   Adjunct professor, Institutes of Light Metals, Kumamoto University & University of Toyama

2025/4   now   Vice Director, Center for Carbon Neutral Creation Research of University of Toyama

Prizes / Awards

Year  Type of Award / Awarding Body
1987  Huaxin Prize, University of Science and Technology of China

1989  Monbusho Scholarship of Japanese Government (Ministry of Education)

1993  Amada Prize/Japan-China Science and Technology Society

1994  Best Research Paper Prize / The Japan Industry Newspaper

1999  Noguchi Memorial Prize for Young Scientist / Japan Petroleum Institute

2000  Progress Prize/ Japan Institute of Energy

2005  Top Cited Article Award of Catalysis Today, Elsevier

2007  Prize of Japan Society of Promotion of Science (JSPS Prize)

2016  Top cited scientist in energy science and technology, SCOPUS/Elsevier

2017  Award of Japan Institute of Energy

2017  Member of Science Council of Japan

2019  Award of Catalysis Society of Japan

2020  Certification of Bio Jet Fuel, Japan Airline Company

2021  Member of The Engineering Academy of Japan

2022  Award of Science and Technology, from Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan government

Achievements

Original paper: 450
Review paper: 80
Book Chapter: 11
Patent: 98
Bench Plant/pilot plant: 6
H-index: 65
Citation: 19000

Chief Organizer and chairman, America Chemical Society Symposium “Ultraclean Transportation Fuel”, Philadelphia, USA, 2004.
Organizing committee chairman, 98th Japan National Conference of Catalysis, 2006.
Chair, natural gas division, Catalysis Society of Japan (2001-2010).
Chair, natural gas division, Japan Institute of Energy (2004-2014).
Chief Organizer and chairman, Symposium “Clean Energy from Natural Gas, Petroleum, Coal and Biomass”, 2010 Pan-Pacific Chemical Congress, December 2010, Hawaii, USA.
Keynote speaker, 9th International Natural Gas Conversion Symposium, Lyon, France, 2010.
Invited speaker, The 16th International Congress on Catalysis, Beijing, China, 2016.
Editor & board member, Journal of Energy Chemistry, Elsevier.
Keynote speaker, 12th International Natural Gas Conversion Symposium, San Antonio, TX, USA, 2019.
Invited speaker, The 8th Asia-Pacific Congress on Catalysis, Bangkok, Thailand, 2019.
Organizing committee chairman, 30th National Conference of Japan Institute of Energy, 2020.
Organizing committee chairman, 36th National Conference of Japan Zeolite Association, 2020.
Chief Organizer and chairman, Symposium “Catalysis of C1 Chemistry and CO2 conversion”, 2020 Pan-Pacific Chemical Congress, December 2020, Hawaii, USA (being changed to December 2021, Hawaii, USA due to virus).
Organizing committee chairman, 31th National Conference of Japan Institute of Energy, 2021.
Organizing committee chairman, 130th Japan National Conference of Catalysis, 2022.