邑瀬 邦明

Kuniaki MURASE was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1967. He received the B.E. degree in applied chemistry in 1991, and PhD degree in engineering in 1996 from Osaka University. The title of the PhD thesis is "Studies on Rare Earth Separation Using Chemical Vapor Transport”. From 1993 to 1996, he was the Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). In 1996 he joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kyoto University, as a Research Associate, and became an Associate Professor in 2004 and a full Professor in 2012. His current research interests include electrochemical/chemical processing of metals, alloys, and compounds for surface finishing, thin-layer formation, and hydrometallurgy using aqueous, non-aqueous, or ionic-liquid media. He has written more than 150 peer-reviewed scientific papers. He is an active member of The Electrochemical Society (ECS), The International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE), and The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS). He was the recipient of the Young Scientist Awards of The Surface Finishing Society of Japan (SFJ) in 2001 and of The Mining and Materials Processing Institute of Japan (MMIJ) in 2007, in recognition of his outstanding research work in the aqueous electrodeposition and chemical thermodynamics of alloys and compounds.