Kenichi Endo

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Kenichi Endo received his Master's degree in chemistry from the University of Tokyo in 2017, working on metallo-supramolecular assemblies. This was followed by PhD studies under the guidance of Prof. Mitsuhiko Shionoya, investigating chiral metal complexes for asymmetric catalysis, which resulted in the development of configurationally stable tetrahedral chiral-at-metal complexes. After finishing his PhD in 2020, he joined the group of Prof. Toshiharu Teranishi at Kyoto University as a postdoc. There, he focused on novel ways to create metal complexes on the surface of inorganic semiconductor nanoparticles (quantum dots) for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution. In 2021, he started to work in Germany with Prof. Bettina V. Lotsch at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, applying his knowledge of coordination chemistry and catalysis to covalent organic frameworks (COFs) and electrocatalytic CO₂ reduction. Since May 2025, he has been a junior professor at the University of Stuttgart and a PI in the CRC 1333 (“Molecular Heterogeneous Catalysis in Defined Geometries”). He was previously awarded with the Humboldt Research Fellowship, and in 2021 received the Springer Thesis Award.

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