Atmospheric Reaction Chemistry

Dr. Hajime Akimoto received his B.S. in 1962 and PhD in 1967 in physical chemistry from Tokyo Institute of Technology. For his postdoctoral research he spent three years during 1969-71 in Department of Chemistry at University of California, Riverside, and worked on chemistry of photochemical air pollution. In 1974 he joined National Institute for Environmental Studies in Tsukuba as a head of Atmospheric Chemistry Section in Atmospheric Environment Division, and then serves as Chief of Atmospheric Environment Division and Global Environment Division.
Then, he moved to Research Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo as a professor in 1993. In 2000, he joined Frontier Research Center for Global Change now under Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology as a Director of Atmospheric Composition Research Program. After 2010 he serves as director general of Asia Center for Air Pollution Research in Niigata, Japan.