Hajime Hirao
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Biography
Hajime Hirao received his BS and MS degrees from Kyoto University and his PhD from The University of Tokyo. He did his postdoc at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Emory University, and Kyoto University. He is currently an assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is particularly interested in theoretical aspects of chemical reactions. Before starting his postdoc training, he also worked for three years on computer-assisted drug design at Novartis in Japan. These have made his research interest lie primarily in the application of computational chemistry to chemical reactions in bioinorganic chemistry, homogeneous/heterogeneous catalysis, and medicinal chemistry.