Dr. Tomohiro Yasukawa obtained BSc, MSc and PhD degree at The University of Tokyo, Japan in 2010, 2012 and 2015 respectively under the supervision of Prof. Shu Kobayashi. In 2013, he joined the research group of Prof. Frank Glorius at University of Münster, Germany for three month as a visiting student.
In April 2015, he was appointed as a project assistant professor in Green & Sustainable Chemistry Social Cooperation Laboratory, The University of Tokyo, Japan. In October 2022, he joined the research group of Prof. Jannie Cossy at ESPCI Paris, France as a postdoc. In April 2024, he was appointed as a project assistant professor at The University of Tokyo, Japan again. In October 2024, he joined Monash University as a Lecturer.

Our laboratory develops heterogeneous catalysts for green and sustainable organic reactions. We mainly focus on carbon-based materials (i.e. nitrogen-doped carbon) as catalyst supports to develop novel metal nanoparticle catalysts and single-metal atom catalysts (SACs), which have a localized single metal active site created by strong metal-support interactions. We developed various types of reactions such as hydrogenation, aerobic oxidation, C-C bond forming reactions and carbene insetion reactions. We are also interested in developing electrochemical synthesis, using these catalysts as electrodes. Furthermore, we aim to apply the developed reactions to continuous flow reactions, , where starting materials flow through a small reactor packed with catalysts to produce products.