Tohru Setoyama
Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation Yokohama, JAPAN
Biography
Tohru Setoyama is a fellow and an executive officer of Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC). He has largely contributed to the several commercialized catalytic processes and to the launch of several businesses related to inorganic functional materials. He is regarded as one of the key persons to bridge between academia and industry in Japan. Now he is a project leader of ARPChem project supported by New Energy Development Organization (NEDO) and Program officer of "Hyper nano space Design" project supported by Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).