Yoshiko Miura
Kyushu University
Biography
Yoshiko Miura is currently Professor in Chemical Engineering and Polymer ÀË»¨Ö±²¥ at Kyushu University, Japan. She studied polymer chemistry and biopolymer chemistry at Kyoto University under Prof. Yukio Imanishi and Prof. Shiro Kobayashi, and received PhD in 2000. From 2000 to 2001, She spent her postdoctoral period at the University of Pennsylvania in Professor Virgil Percec’s group. In 2001, she then returned to Japan and was appointed as Assistant Professor in Department of Biotechnology at Nagoya University. Then in 2005, she was appointed as associate professor at the School of Materials Science in Japan Advanced Institute of Technology. From 2010 to the present, she is a professor at Kyushu University. Her current research interests include the development of bio-based polymers of glycopolymers, biofunctional nanogels, porous polymers, and biomimetic materials.
RSC affiliations
Associate editors, Materials Advances
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