Mahito Atobe, Professor, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yokohama National University

Mahito Atobe was born in Yamanashi, Japan, in 1969. He received his Ph.D. degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1998. He had held positions (Research Assistant, Lecturer, and Associate Professor) at Tokyo Institute of Technology (1996–2010). He had been appointed to a Professor position in July 2010 at Yokohama National University. He has been awarded the Young Researcher Award of The Electrochemical Society of Japan (2003), The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: The Prize for Young Scientists (2009), and so on. His current research focuses on organic electrosynthetic processes in flow microreactors and SPE electrolyzers.