Rate My Professor Kei Nomiyama

Kei Nomiyama is an Associate Professor at Ehime University, serving in the Division of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology within the Center for Marine Environmental Studies (CMES) and the Graduate School of Science and Engineering since April 2015. He earned his Ph.D. in Symbiotic Environmental Sciences from the Prefectural University of Kumamoto in March 2008.

Nomiyama's research focuses on environmental chemistry, environmental toxicology, and xenobiotic metabolism, with particular emphasis on the transfer of ionic environmental pollutants to the brain in various animal species and analyses of their adverse effects, accumulation characteristics and risk assessment of organohalogen metabolites in wildlife, and evaluation of biological effects of environmental pollutants by metabolomics. He is a member of several professional societies, including the Japan Society for Environmental Chemistry, the Japan Society on Water Environment, the Japan Society of Endocrine Disrupters Research, the Japanese Society of Toxicology, the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), and the American Chemical Society (ACS). His honors include the Doctoral Research Incentive Award from the Japan Society on Water Environment in 2007, the Incentive Award from the Japanese Society of Environmental Toxicology in 2009, Photographer of the Year at the Sony World Photography Awards in 2016, the 14th Environmental Incentive Award of Miura Tamotsu in 2018, and the Incentive Award of the JSET Annual Meeting in 2019.