Dr. Takashi Ikawa is an Associate Professor at the Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Gifu Pharmaceutical University, Gifu, Japan. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Gifu Pharmaceutical University in 2005. Subsequently, he moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Chemistry (2005–2007). Then, he served as an Assistant Professor at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka (2007–2013) and as an Assistant Professor (2013–2016) and an Associate Professor (2016–2021) at the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University. His research interests are dispersion force, benzyne, position selectivity, Diels–Alder reaction, boron compounds, etc.
Tsuyoshi Yamada was born in 1987 in Nagano, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in 2017 from Gifu Pharmaceutical University, Gifu, Japan. He was a JSPS research fellow in 2015–2017. After
serving as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Chemistry at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität
Heidelberg (2017–2018), he moved to Gifu Pharmaceutical University as an Assistant Professor (2018–2022) and was later appointed Associate Professor (2022–2024). Then, he moved to the University of Toyama as an Associate Professor in June 2024. His research interests are Lewis acid catalysis, heterogeneous catalysis, flow chemistry, and electrochemistry.
Prof. Dr Hironao Sajiki is a Professor at the Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Gifu Pharmaceutical University, Gifu, Japan. He graduated from Gifu Pharmaceutical University in 1983 and received his Master's degree in 1985. He then spent 1.5 years as a Ph.D. student, 2.5 years as a research fellow at Kotobuki Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., and 11 months as a research associate at Gifu Pharmaceutical University. He then joined the State University of New York at Albany (SUNYA) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a postdoctoral fellow. He began his career at Gifu Pharmaceutical University in 1995, and since 2021 he has also served as Vice President and Dean of the Graduate School. He received the SSOCJ Nissan Chemical Industries Award for Novel Reaction and Method in 2012, the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan Award for Divisional Scientific Contribution in 2013, the Ichimura Prize in Science for Excellent Achievement in 2021, and the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan Award and Synthetic Organic Chemistry Award, Japan in 2023.
