Biographie
Hayato Tsurugi is an associate professor of the Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2006 from Osaka University under the supervision of Prof. K. Mashima. From 2006 to 2008, he worked with Prof. M. Miura as an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University.
In 2008, he joined Prof. K. Mashima’s group at the Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University as an assistant professor, and then promoted to an associate professor in 2010. His research interests are in the areas of organometallic chemistry, including catalytic applications for direct C-H transformation, radical coupling reactions, α-olefin oligomerization/polymerization, as well as coordination chemistry with transition metals for synthesizing homo/heterometal clusters, and the development of new reduction methods using main-group element compounds.