Graduate School of Engineering, Division of Material Chemistry Professor
Koji Otsuka is a professor of Analytical Chemistry of Materials, Department of Material Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, since 2002. He received his Ph. D. from Kyoto University in 1986 under the supervision of Prof. Teiichi Ando and Dr. Shigeru Terabe. After receiving the JSPS Fellowship for Young Scientists (1986–1988), he joined Osaka Prefectural College of Technology as a senior lecturer (1988–1990) and an associate professor (1990–1995), then moved to Himeji Institute of Technology as an associate professor of the Prof. Terabe’s Lab (1995–2002), followed by moving to Kyoto University. His research interests include the development of micro/nano scale high performance separation techniques using electrophoretic and chromatographic methods. He has published approximately 180 papers and book chapters.
He received the Award of the Society for Chromatographic Sciences (2006), the Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work (2009), the Award of the Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry (2014), and the Terabe Shigeru Prize (2014). He is a member of the Permanent Scientific Committees of both the HPLC and the ITP Symposia and an editor of the Journal of Separation Science (Wiley-VCH).