Takashi Tatsumi was appointed as the 4th President of the National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE) on April 1, 2015.
Prior to joining the NITE, Dr. Tatsumi served as Executive Vice President for Research at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He also served as Vice-president for the International Zeolite Association. He is a member of the American Chemical Society and the British Zeolite Association. He is also an editor of the Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical.
His achievements are outstanding and he has won many awards. The main prizes are as follows: Catalysis Society of Japan Award in 2003, Science & Technology Award from the Minister of Education & Science in 2005, Japan Petroleum Institute Award in 2006, Chemical Society of Japan Award in 2007, and Alwin Mittasch Prize from DECHEMA, the expert network for chemical engineering and biotechnology in Germany, in 2012.
He obtained his Ph.D. in engineering from The University of Tokyo.