Dr. Miyamoto obtained his Ph. D (Engineering) from Waseda University, Japan, in 2004, supervised by Professor Kazuyuki Kuroda in the field of inorganic materials chemistry. He worked as a researcher at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (2001-2003) and initiated the research of inorganic nanosheet liquid crystals working with Professor Teruyuki Nakato. He then moved to Japan Atomic Energy Agency (2004-2007) and engaged in in-situ structural analyses of soft materials by small angle neutron/X-ray scattering in the research team directed by Professor Takeji Hashimoto. In 2007, he moved to Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan, and is currently an Associate Professor of the institute. He was managing the project research (2015-2019) as the Research Director of Materials and Energy Device Research Center of Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT-ME) funded by the Strategic Research Foundation Grant-Aided Project for Private University from Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s (MEXT), Japan. In 2017-2018, he was working at Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Univesité Paris-Salcay, France, as a visiting researcher. From 2024, he is an Affiliate Member of the International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (SKCM2) of Hiroshima University funded by MEXT World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI). His research mainly focuses on the synthesis of advanced functional materials based on the inorganic nanosheets liquid crystals and nanosheet/polymer composites. The main research fields are inorganic chemistry, colloid chemistry, materials chemistry, and polymer chemistry.
