Professor Kiyokatsu Jinno

On April 4, 2015, Kiyokatsu Jinno, Professor Emeritus at Toyohashi University of Technology, will celebrate his 70th birthday. Born in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, Kiyokatsu Jinno obtained his bachelor’s degree in 1968, his master’s degree in 1970, and his doctorate on non-destructive elemental analysis using Be-D neutrons in 1973. He then spent five years as a Research Scientist at the Integrated Circuit Laboratory of the Toshiba R&D Centre working on the development of the dry-plasma-etching process and electron-beam lithographic techniques. In 1978, he took up the post of Associate Professor at the School of Materials Science, Toyohashi University of Technology, where he remained until 2014 when he retired from being Full Professor and Vice President of the University.

In the course of his distinguished career, Professor Jinno has received numerous awards, including the Tokai Industrial Chemistry Award in 1985, the Award of the Society of Chromatographic Science in 2000, and the Award of the Japanese Society for Analytical Chemistry in 2003. He has also been awarded the Russian Tswett Medal (1996), the Golay Award (1999), the University of Helsinki Medal (1998), and the COLACRO Medal (2012). Professor Jinno has acted as an editor and editorial-board member for several scientific journals, including Analytical Chemistry, Journal of Chromatography A, and Journal of Chromatographic Science. Currently, he is one of the editors of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry and a scientific committee member of the Annual International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography. Professor Jinno’s research interests have always been in the separation sciences and have covered a very broad field. A brief list of the topics he has investigated includes microcolumn liquid chromatography and related techniques; hyphenated techniques, including LC-IR, LC-ICP, and multidimensional detection systems; computerized analytical-separation systems; miniaturized sample-preparation processes; and new stationary phase design and synthesis. Spectroscopy, chromatography, computer techniques, and basic chemistry research are among his special areas of interest. He is the author and co-author of over 300 scientific papers, one single-authored book, three edited books, and approximately 50 chapters and review articles. His place in the development of microcolumn separations and chromatography is well established. On the occasion of his 70th birthday, the editors, publisher, and readers of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry wish Professor Kiyokatsu Jinno many more years of productive work. Those of us who have enjoyed Kiyokatsu’s friendship and cooperation for over 35 years would like to add our warmest personal wishes.

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