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Kounosuke Oisaki was born in 1980 in Tokushima, Japan, and received his Ph.D. from The University of Tokyo (UTokyo) in 2008 under the direction of Professor Masakatsu Shibasaki. Then, he moved to the University of California-Los Angeles, USA, for postdoctoral studies with Professor Omar M. Yaghi. In 2010, he returned to Japan and joined Professor Motomu Kanai's group at UTokyo as an assistant professor, then promoted as a lecturer in 2016. He joined National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) since 2022 as a senior researcher, then promoted to Team Leader since 2023. Since 2025, he works as Group Leader in AIST and deputy-director in Open Innovation Laboratoty for Food and Medicinal Resource Engineering (FoodMedOIL).
He has been granted several academic awards, including  The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan Award for Young Scientists (2018), Mitsui Chemicals Catalysis Science Award of Encouragement (2018), Chemist Award BCA (2018), Thieme Chemistry Journals Award (2019), Best Paper Award in SYNTHESIS (2020).
His current research interest is the development of new synthetic organic chemistry, with a focus on organoradical-based chemoselective reagents/catalysis for C(sp³)-H functionalizations and peptide/protein modifications.