Kazunari Dōmen

Kazunari Dōmen is a Japanese chemist at the University of Tokyo and Shinshū University. He is known for his work on the large-scale synthesis of hydrogen by photocatalytic water splitting.

Career Dōmen earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Tokyo in 1976, a master's degree in 1979, and a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1982 with his thesis Photocatalytic Reaction on Some Semiconductor Powders. In the same year he was appointed assistant professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He stayed as a postdoctoral fellow at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San José, California in 1985/86. He was promoted to associate professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1990 and received a full professorship in 1996. Dōmen returned to his alma mater in 2004 as a professor.

Honours Clarivate Citation Laureate (2024), for "fundamental research on photocatalysts for water splitting and the construction of solar hydrogen production systems".