Ryo Kato

Ryo grew up in Tokyo, Japan. He received his Bachelor's degrees from Waseda University in 2012 and stayed there for his PhD. He received his PhD in 2017 under the supervision of Professor Hiroyuki Nishide and was appointed as an assistant professor to the Department of Applied Chemistry. He moved to the University of Chicago and joined Professor Rowan’s group as a postdoc in 2018. His research interests are synthesis and application of functional polymers (especially redox polymers), stimuli-responsive materials, nanocomposites, and energy storage devices.