Hiroshi Kageyama is a chemist and physicist specializing in solid state science. He obtained his PhD from the Department of Chemistry at Kyoto University's Graduate School of Science in 1998 under the supervision of Prof. Koji Kosuge. In the same year, he was recruited as Assistant Professor at the Institute of Solid State Physics (ISSP), University of Tokyo, in the laboratory of Prof. Yutaka Ueda. In 2003, he returned to Kyoto as assistant professor, then associate professor in 2007 in the laboratory of Prof. Kazuyoshi Yoshimura.
In 2010, he founded his own laboratory as a professor in the Department ofEnergyand Hydrocarbon Chemistry at Kyoto University's Graduate School of Engineering. Today, he is an advisor to the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and Managing Director of the JST Future Material Project . He also heads the " Core-to-Core on Mixed Anion Research for Energy Conversion " project, which brings together six countries (Japan, Germany, Belgium, China, France, UK) and over eighty researchers and students.
Hiroshi Kageyama has received numerous national awards, including the Ministry ofEducation, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) Young Scientist Award in 2007, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Award in 2014, the Japan Society of Chemistry Academic Award in 2017 and the Japan Society of Ceramics Academic Award in 2023.