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Tani-kun came to visit

2016.11.04

A few days ago, a visitor came to visit us, It was quite surprising especially those who came from Itami Laboratory.

Tan-kun is the first undergraduate student in the Itami laboratory in Nagoya who has completed the master’s program. A smart student who successfully his main research, a 400-page experimental section in 2014. The number of citations in this paper has already exceeded 80 hits and it is recorded as the highest number of citations in 2014. I think the number of experimental items written is the one of the best in the world.

Tani, S.; Uehara, T. N.; Yamaguchi, J.; Itami, K. Chem. Sci. 2014, 5, 123–135. DOI: 10.1039/C3SC52199K

However, he is a very free-spirited student who applied to only one major chemical manufacturer company.

“What will you do if you failed to enter this company?’ He said, “I am actually interested in continuing PhD because research is fun and then become a fisherman.” However, it seems that he quit the company as expected in the second half of the year and worked for a while in this private business (it was interesting because the business name was his favorite compound name), but it was almost gone missing. Its been a long time since he went back home so are you going home as you promised? But, I want to be a fisherman. It is a once in a lifetime thing. Before going back to hometown, he decided to pay a visit to my laboratory. We had sake and souvenirs of sweets.

He is gonna be an extraordinary fisherman and I think he will do very well. I will continue to support you. Thank you for visiting!