Our labolatory consists of 21 members(at May. 13, 2019), including 6 doctoral course students, 11 master course students and 2 staff members. Students are studying hard under Associate Professor Kamiya's direction every day. Because our department does not have undergraduate course, many students come from the universities other than Hokkaido University. Most of students haven't learned a catalytic chemistry until come to the laboratory, and have learned the field of a variety of chemistry as organic, inorganic, analytical, or theoretical. A few students have learned physics and dairy farming in their undergraduate education. However, don't worry! In the laboratory, we are learning catalytic chemistry very well from fundamental to application through a seminar and research activities, so we will be excellent(?) catalytic chemist when graduating.
Research is a process elucidating the universe through expriments (catalysis is a part of the universe). It is important for the research that we think ideas with free minds, and he, Assoc. Prof. Kamiya, hopes that the laboratory is the place to be able to do it. He wants students to be able to think and originate in their own words. Not a copy of someone else's opinions and ideas.
We are always reseaeching develop heterogeneous catalysts and solid materials with high functionalities to contribute to environmental cleanup and remediation with the sprit of "We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children."