Ikuya Fujii

Ikuya was born and raised in Kobe. He received his B.Eng. degree from Kobe City College of Technology in 2018 under supervision of Professor Takuya Koizumi. He obtained his M.Eng. from Kyoto University under the guidance of Professor Yoshiaki Nakao in 2020. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate School of Engineering at Kyoto University and a JSPS Young Scientists Fellow. His research with Professor Nakao focuses on development of catalytic inert-bond transformations using precisely designed transition-metal complexes, in which he developed catalytic transformations of strong carbon–fluorine bond and carbon–oxygen bond enabled by hetero-bimetallic complexes.