Rate My Professor Takahiro Matsumoto

Takahiro Matsumoto is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering, Department of Applied Chemistry at Kyushu University. He earned his B.Sc. in 2002, M.Sc. in 2004, and Ph.D. in Science in 2007 from Kanazawa University. He joined Kyushu University in 2007 as a researcher, became Assistant Professor in 2009, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2014.

His research focuses on organometallic chemistry, coordination chemistry, and bioinorganic chemistry, with emphasis on the development of molecular catalysts for activating small molecules such as dioxygen, dihydrogen, methane, and biomass-derived compounds. He has contributed to studies on hydrogen fuel cells using molecular catalysts inspired by hydrogenase enzymes and light-driven transformations. Matsumoto received the Young Scientists’ Prize from the Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry in 2016 and the Young Scientists’ Prize from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2018. He has authored or co-authored numerous peer-reviewed papers on topics including photocatalytic hydrogen evolution and organometallic catalysis for material transformations.