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Academic background
Research activities
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Book and thesis
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Winning science prize
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KAWAMURA Kunio
Hiroshima shudo University The Faculty of Human Environmental Studies

Professor

■ Present specialized field

●Specialized field
Origin of Life, Environmental Technology, Hydrothermal Chemistry and Technology, Analytical Chemistry, Nucleic acid Chemistry, Theory of Origin and Evolution of Biospheres, Citizen Science
●Keyword
nucleic acid,RNA,protein,amino acid,peptide,origin of life,ancient Earth,hydrothermal,in situ measurement,mineral,catalyst,
●The main research themes
1.	Deveoplment of in situ spectroscopic detection systems for rapid and high temepature and high pressure reactions in liquid phases
2.	Investigations of chemical evolution of protein and nucleic acid using hydrothermal flow reactor system
3.	Construction of evolutionary system using prebiotic molecules
4.	Application of hydrothermal flow reactor systems for environmental harmless technology
5.	Analogy between the life-like systems and civilizations and its application to global environmental protection
●Capable of joint research and research consultation content

■ Academic background

1.	1985/04～1988/03	Tohoku University Graduate School, Division of Engineering Material chemistry〔Doctoral course〕 Completed Doctor of Enginering
2.	1983/04～1985/03	Tohoku University Graduate School, Division of Engineering 〔Master degree program〕 Completed
3.	～1983/03	Tohoku University Faculty of Engineering Graduated

■ Research activities

1.	1983～	The Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry
2.	1985～	The Chemical Society of Japan.
3.	1992～	American chemical society
4.	1992～	the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life and Astrobiology Society
5.	1995～	The society for the study of the origin and evolution of life, Japan
6.	2002/03～	∟ Council
7.	2012～	Japan Association on the Environmental Studies
8.	2013/08～	Journal of Astrobiology & Outreach
9.	2013/08～	∟ Editorial board member
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■ Business career

1.	2011/04～	Hiroshima shudo University The Faculty of Human Environmental Studies Professor
2.	2012/02～2012/03	Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) Invited Professor

■ Book and thesis

1.	Book	A Non-paradoxical Pathway for the Chemical Evolution toward the Most Primitive RNA-based Life-like System, in “Evolution, Origin of Life, Concepts and Methods” Ed. by Pierre Pontarotti, Evolutionary Biology Book, p. 3 – 30, Springer, 2019. (Collaboration) 2019/09
2.	Book	Chapters “Activated Nucleotide”, “Nucleotide Phosphirimidazolide”, and “Oligonuleotide”, in “Encyclopedia of Astrobiology” (Collaboration) 2015/07
3.	Thesis	The Environmental Technology as a Fiction 4: Disappearance of Global Warming Problem and Emergence of Climate Change Problem (Single) 2023/02
4.	Thesis	Life on minerals: Binding behaviors of oligonucleotides on zirconium silicate and its inhibitory activity for the self-cleavage of hammerhead ribozyme (Collaboration) 2022/10
5.	Thesis	A high-pressure, high-temperature flow reactor simulating the hadean earth environment, with application to the pressure dependence of the cleavage of avocado viroid hammerhead ribozyme (Collaboration) 2022/08
6.	Thesis	Nano-pulsed discharge-plasma-induced abiotic oligopeptide formation from diketopiperazine (Collaboration) 2022/05
7.	Thesis	The Environmental Technology as a Fiction 1: Trail for Easy to Understand Explanation for Electric Vehicle and Hydrogen Energy on the Basis of Chemical Thermodynamics (Single) 2022/02
8.	Thesis	The Environmental Technology as a Fiction 2: An Approach on the Basis of the Origin-of-life Study as a Fundamental Study (Single) 2022/02
9.	Thesis	A view on the origin-of-life: The model on the time-dependent development of biosystems and the two-gene hypothesis (Single) 2021/12
10.	Thesis	Environmentally friendly, hydrothermal treatment of mixed fabric wastes containing polyester, cotton, and wool fibers: Application for HMF production (Collaboration) 2020/09
11.	Thesis	Production of 5’-hydroxymethylfurfural by the hydrothermal treatment of cotton fabric wastes using a pilot-plant scale flow reactor (Collaboration) 2020/09
12.	Thesis	Education as a Key Social System for the Global Environmental Protection Deduced from a Biosystematic View of Civilization (Single) 2019/06
13.	Thesis	In situ UV–VIS–NIR spectrophotometric detection system as a research tool for environment-friendly chemical processes (Collaboration) 2019/06
14.	Thesis	Enhancement and inhibitory activities of minerals for alanine oligopeptide elongation under hydrothermal conditions (Collaboration) 2018/08
15.	Thesis	Hydrothermal microflow technology as a research tool for origin-of-life studies in extreme Earth environment (Single) 2017/10
16.	Thesis	A Powerful Research Tool for Screening and Development of Solid-state Catalysts Building up the Environment Harmless Chemical Technologies (Single) 2017/06
17.	Thesis	Walking over 4 Gya: Chemical evolution from photochemistry to mineral and organic chemistries leading to an RNA worl (Collaboration) 2017/04
18.	Thesis	In situ UV-VIS spectrophotometry within the second time scale as a research tool for solid-state catalyst and liquid-phase reactions at high temperatures: Its application to the formation of HMF from glucose and cellulose (Collaboration) 2016/09
19.	Thesis	A hypothesis: life initiated from two genes, as deduced from the RNA world hypothesis and the characteristics of life-like systems (Single) 2016/08
20.	Thesis	Efficient Research Tool for the Improvement of Classical Chemical Processes Using High Temperature Micro-flow Reactor Technologies (Single) 2015/06
21.	Thesis	Global Environmental Protection on the Basis of the Biosystematic View of Civilization – Importance of Information Flow, and Roles of Energy and Material Flow – (Single) 2015/06
22.	Thesis	Verification of chemical evolution of RNA under hydrothermal environments on the primitive Earth (Collaboration) 2015/04
23.	Thesis	Separation Behavior of Short Oligonucleotides by Ion-Pair Reversed-Phase Capillary Liquid Chromatography Using a Silica-Based Monolithic Column Applied to Simple Detection of SNPs (Collaboration) 2015/03
24.	Other	Chemical evolution and the origin of life in relation to the enzymatic and informational molecules (Single) 2017/02
25.	Other	Chemical Evolution of RNA and peptides under the extreme ancient Erth environments (Single) 2017/02
26.	Other	Origins of life on the Earth in 4.6 billion years towards modern civilizations (Single) 2017/02
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■ Academic conference presentation

1.	2021/12/20	Environmental harmless chemical technology (The 6th EnvironmentAsia Virtual International Conference on “Challenge of Global Environmental Changes in the 21st Century”)
2.	2020/12/15	Chemical evolution of RNA and protein-like molecules compatible with the Hadean Earth environments and the two-gene hypothesis
3.	2020/12/15	Effect of pH on the synthesis of linear oligopeptides from DKP using pulsed arc discharge (Pacifichem 2020 Congress)
4.	2020/09/25	Effect of Some Parameters on The Synthesis of Linear Oligopeptides from DKP Using Pulsed Discharge
5.	2020/08/28	Chemical evolution of RNA and proteins compatible with the primitive Earth environments and the two-gene hypothesis on the origin-of-life (ELSI Seminar)
6.	2019/06/17	Education as a Key Social System for the Global Environmental Protection Deduced from a Biosystematic View of Civilization (The 5th EnvironmentAsia International Conference on “Transboundary environmental nexus: From local to regional perspectives”)
7.	2018/09/22	Formation of oligonucleotides and oligopeptides under hydrothermal environments with minerals evaluated using hydrothermal microflow reactor systems (A.E.E.B: Evolutionary Biology Meeting at Marseilles)
8.	2018/09/22	Two-gene hypothesis for the emergence of life-like system from a simple chemical evolution network of RNA molecules (A.E.E.B: Evolutionary Biology Meeting at Marseilles)
9.	2018/09/18	Effect of Pulsed discharge in formation of Liner Oligopeptides from DKP (SCEJ 50th Autumn Meeting)
10.	2018/03/06	Hydrothermal flow reactor system as a research tool for origin-of-life study and more practical applications (The 1st International Workshop on the Research and Development of Unique Reaction/Separation Techniques in Kumamoto)
11.	2017/07/16	Mineral-Mediated Chemical Evolution of RNA and Related Molecules Compatible with the Hadean Environments (XVIIIth International Conference on the Origin of Life)
12.	2017/07/16	Two Gene Hypothesis for the Initiation of Life-like Systems towards the RNA (XVIIIth International Conference on the Origin of Life)
13.	2017/06/21	A Powerful Research Tool for Screening and Development of Solid-state Catalysts Building up the Environment Harmless Chemical Technologies (The 4th EnvironmentAsia International Conference Practical Global Policy and Environmental Dynamics)
14.	2017/02/17	Chemical evolution and the origin of life in relation to the enzymatic and informational molecules (Seminar for Master’s students invited by Professor Dominique Guianvarc’h, UPMC)
15.	2017/02/16	Origins of life on the Earth in 4.6 billion years towards modern civilizations (Conference, Maison Universitaire France-Japon)
16.	2016/09/27	Oligopeptide formation in the presence and absence of naturally occurring minerals under the hydrothermal environments (European Astrobiology Network Association (EANA))
17.	2016/06/20	Roles of minerals for the chemical evolution of RNA and peptides under the primitive hydrothermal earth environments (CECAM Atomistic simulations in prebiotic chemistry – a dialog between experiment and theory at University Pierre and Marie Curie)
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■ Winning science prize

2009/05

Awarded in InnoCentive challenge - Lignin as feedstock to make aromatics

■ Main Subject

Chemistry

■ Activity in society

2017/02～2017/02

（市民講座）Origins of life on the Earth in 4.6 billion years towards modern civilizations

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■ E-Mail Address

■ Home Page

http://ns1.shudo-u.ac.jp/~kawamura/index.html