Yu Noda, Ph.D.

HAPPY NEW YEAR, everyone. Jan. 1 2021❖ Stay home, stay safe and healthy. ❖ Thank you, doctors, nurses and other care providers, for working day and night in this fight. ❖ Stay positive. Listen to experts. April 6 2020I began working as Technical Advisor to assist patent prosecution of highly advanced new technologies. I use my academic background in chemistry, materials, and engineering (more specifically, heterogeneous catalysis, semiconductor materials, lignocellulosic biomass conversion, nano and meso-porous materials, polymers and energy and fuels) to help our clients to make difference in the world. Data analysis | Technical Management | Business Development | Startups | Remote work | Science Communication | Technical Translation | Technical Writer | Intellectual PropertyScientific technical skills (characterization techniques): AFM, XRD, BET, SEM, AFM, GC, HPLC, FT-IR, Raman, MS, NMR. Let's connect. Open to new challenges. I am/have: ▶︎ Highly productive, experienced research chemist/chemical engineer (>300 citations) with the emphasis on concept design, synthesis, and performance evaluation of new organic-inorganic hybrid catalysts/nanomaterials/devices. Proficient in analytical techniques of spectroscopy, chromatography, microscopy, and thermal analysis.▶︎ Excellent verbal and written skills (with a poster award. >15 conference presentations), and team player with leadership. Founded a discussion group (10-15 members) on modern chemical research in graduate school (with a service award). Advised and mentored a total of >15 team members.▶︎ Extensive international experience (Japan, US, and Czech Republic) with a wide range of collaborations including physicists (Germany) and industry partners. ▶︎ Eligible to permanently work without any sponsorship in the U.S.▶︎ Bilingual (Japanese and English). Learning Czech and Korean languages. "Dobrý den"▶︎ Interested in Art in Science and Science in Art. Past project examples: • Development of orgainic-inorganic hybrid materials for catalytic conversion of biomass-derived molecules.• Hydrolytic depolymerization of lignocellulosic biomass with renewable organic acids.• Synthesis and crystallization of novel mixed metal mesoporous oxide as a photocatalyst to release hydrogen from water.