Hidehiro UEKUSA − Editorial Board Member

Hidehiro UEKUSA, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science at Tokyo
Institute of Technology, was born in 1964 in Tokyo. He received B. of Science (1987), M. of
Science (1989), and D. of Science (1992) degrees from Keio University. In 1992, he joined
the Department of Chemistry at Tokyo Institute of Technology as a Research Associate (1992
-1999). He was appointed to Associate Professor of the Department of Chemistry and
Materials Science in 1999. His major field is chemical crystallography. His current interests
include 1) analysis of crystalline state reactions, 2) development of rapid X-ray diffraction
measurement methods, and 3) crystal structure analysis from powder diffraction data. He
stayed at the Department of Chemical Science at Birmingham University, UK in 2002 for
collaborative work in these area. He is also Chairman of the Committee on Database and
Information in the Crystallographic Society of Japan (2002 -2003) and a member of the
Commission on Structural Chemistry in the International Union of Crystallography. He enjoys
teatime every afternoon with his students.
from Analytical Sciences, Volume 19, Number 6, 2003.