Yoshimitsu Itoh

Yoshimitsu Itoh is an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology at the University of Tokyo (Japan), where he leads the Interfacial Molecular Engineering (IME) Laboratory as a principal investigator.

Yoshimitsu Itoh received a PhD in 2006 for experimental and theoretical investigations of organofluorine compounds under the direction of Professor Koichi Mikami at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He subsequently carried out his first postdoctoral research focusing on organometallic catalysis with Professor Eiichi Nakamura at the University of Tokyo, moving on to a second postdoctoral research starting in 2007 at Columbia University (USA) with Professor Colin Nuckolls, working on self-assembled monolayers and organic field-effect transistors. In 2008, he began his academic career at the University of Tokyo as an assistant professor in Professor Takuzo Aida's research group, where he served as a team leader. He was promoted to lecturer in 2016 and then to associate professor in 2018. In 2022, he successfully started his fully independent research group.

His research interests focus on engineering interfaces between molecules and surfaces to develop innovative materials that leverage the fundamentals of organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, and electrochemistry. His current research interest is to develop novel functional porous polymers that can contribute to the realization of a sustainable society.