Mitsukimi Tsunoda

TSUNODA, Mitsukimi ( #35282;#30000;#20809;#21531; ) was born in Tôkyô, Japan, in October 31 1948. He was educated in Brazil. He completed the secondary studies at the Colégio Estadual de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil) and received the BS in Chemistry Bacharel em Químicain 1975 from the Universidade de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil). He was a FAPESP undergraduate research fellow under the NAS/CNPq program. The graduate study in chemistry was started, initially, in 1975 at the Universidade de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil) with Professor Ernesto Giesbrecht as advisor and was pursued, through the French-Brazilian cooperation program in France, at the Université de Nice (Nice, France) under the direction of Professor Jean G. Riess with fellowships from FAPESP (Brazil) and the Ministère des Affaires Etrangères (France). He obtained the Doctorat dÉtat-ès-Sciences Physiques in 1981 with a thesis on the syntheses of low-oxydation state niobium and tantalum derivatives. In the same year he returned to Brazil where he held, successively, a CNPq research funded position in the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte, MG) and a researcher post at the Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas (São Paulo SP). In 1985 he joined the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) as Assistant Professor of chemistry Professor Assistente to collaborate in the establishment of the graduate program in inorganic chemistry. In 1992 he was appointed to the Universidade Federal de São Carlos (São Carlos, Brazil) where he is now Associate Professor of chemistry Professor Associado. In 1990 he was a visiting professor at the Université Paris XI (Orsay, France). He did post-doctoral researches on sulfur-niobium chemistry at the Universität Regensburg (Regensburg, Germany) with Professor Henri Brunner in 1989 as DAAD fellow and, on the applications of XAS spectroscopy in chemistry at the Université Paris XI (Paris-Sud) and LURE (Orsay, France) in 1990 with Dr Hervé Dexpert under a joint CNRS (France) and CNPq (Brazil) fellowships. In 1993, in connection with the building of the Brazilian synchrotron facility and with the XAS spectroscopy (EXAFS), he was a Gakushin (JSPS- Japan) fellow in the Photon Factory (Tsukuba, Japan) and Tôkyô Kôgyô Daigaku/Tôkyô Institute of Technology (Tôkyô, Japan) with Professor H. Hashizume and in the group of Professor Y. Waseda at the Tohoku Daigaku/Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan). From 1994 to 1997 he was a visiting Research Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin in the group of Professor Alan H. Cowley. In 2007 he was a Visiting Professor in the Tôkyô Kôgyô Daigaku/Tôkyô Institute of Technology (Tôkyô, Japan) in the group of Professor H. Uekusa (X ray diffraction crystallography, inorganic mecanochemistry). Since 2000 he has collaborated with Professor François P. Gabbaï as a Visiting Scholar at the Texas AM University (College Station, USA) on subjects of common interest in fundamental chemistry. His research interests are the synthetic molecular inorganic chemistry of transition metals and heavy representative elements, chemical crystallography, weak interactions as tool for the syntheses of inorganic macromolecules. In Brazil he is advisor in the graduate program in technological chemistry of Universidade Federal de São Carlos. He is active in graduate and undergraduate chemistry teaching programs. He has experience in the management of research and teaching laboratories. He has published over 40 papers and communications and has over 23 crystallographic structures listed in the Cambridge Crystallographic Data. He is fluent in French, English, Portuguese, and Japanese. (v April 2022) (Source: Lattes Curriculum)