1998 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, the University of Electro-Communications 1998-2007 Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo 2006 Postdoctoral Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2007- Associate Professor, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo 2010 Visiting Professor, the University of Strasbourg Awards: 2005 Dainippon Ink and Chemicals Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan 2005 Award for Encouragement of Research, the Society of Silicon Chemistry, Japan 2008 Chemistry Innovation UT GCOE Lectureship Award 2009 Mitsubishi Chemical Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan 2010 The Young Scientists’ Prize, the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

Main Group Chemistry

(1) Control of the Coordination Numbers in Main-Group-Element Compounds (2) Construction of a New Type of Bonding Mode between Hypervalent Atoms (3) Synthesis of Fluorescent Molecules by use of Main Group Elements (4) Synthesis of Transition Metal Complexes Bearing a Novel Main Group Ligand

"Dianionic Species with a Bond Consisting of Two Pentacoordinated Silicon Atoms" N. Kano, H. Miyake, K. Sasaki, T. Kawashima, N. Mizorogi, and S. Nagase, Nature Chem. 2010, 2, 112-116. "Umpolung of a Hydrogen Atom of Water by Using a Hexacoordinated Phosphate and Its Application to Deuteride Reduction Reactions of Carbonyl Compounds" H. Miyake, N. Kano, and T. Kawashima, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 16622-16623. "Structure and Properties of a Sulfur(IV)–Sulfur(II) Bond Compound: Reversible Conversion of a Sulfur-substituted Organosulfurane into a Thiol" N. Kano, Y. Itoh, Y. Watanabe, S. Kusaka, and T. Kawashima, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 9430-9433. "Synthesis of the Most Intensely Fluorescent Azobenzene by Utilizing the B–N Interaction", J. Yoshino, N. Kano, and T. Kawashima, Chem. Commun. 2007, 559-561. "Reversible Photoswitching of the Coordination Numbers of Silicon in Organosilicon Compounds Bearing a 2-(Phenylazo)phenyl Group" N. Kano, F. Komatsu, M. Yamamura, and T. Kawashima, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 7097-7109. "Thermal and Photocontrol of the Equilibrium between a 2-Phosphinoazobenzene and an Inner Phosphonium Salt"

M. Yamamura, Kano, and T. Kawashima, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 11954-11955.