北之園 拓

Taku Kitanosono was born in 1987 in Fukuoka, Japan, and received his bachelor degree from The University of Tokyo in 2010 under the direction of Professor Shū Kobayashi. He obtained his Ph.D. from The University of Tokyo in 2015. He had the opportunity to study at University of Basel in the group of Prof. Thomas R. Ward for 2 months in 2015 (see "Upregulation of an Artificial Zymogen by Proteolysis"). His research interests include the application of catalysis in aqueous environments, such as chiral heterogeneous catalysis, micellar catalysis, and artificial metalloenzymes.