Rate My Professor Yu Katayama

Yu Katayama is an Associate Professor in the Department of Energy and Environmental Materials at SANKEN, Osaka University. He earned a Ph.D. in Engineering and previously held positions including JSPS Research Fellow at Kyoto University, Postdoctoral Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Electrochemical Energy Lab, Assistant Professor at Yamaguchi University’s Department of Applied Chemistry, and Visiting Researcher at the Technical University of Denmark. He was appointed Associate Professor at SANKEN in March 2022.

His research centers on electrocatalysis, operando spectroscopy, and electrochemical energy conversion and storage technologies. Katayama has received the MEXT Young Scientists’ Award in the Commendation for Science and Technology and the Sano Award from the Electrochemical Society of Japan. He serves as Vice-Chair of Division 3 of the International Society of Electrochemistry and has secured multiple JSPS and JST grants supporting his work on sustainable energy systems.