Waseda's Next President: Homma Takayuki

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Question: Give an introduction to Homma Takayuki (本間敬之)

Answer: Academic chemist/electrochemist at Waseda University, soon to become university president.

Career timeline:

1987 — BS, Waseda University, Faculty of Science and Engineering
1992 — PhD (Engineering), Waseda graduate school, Applied Chemistry
1991 onward — research assistant → lecturer → associate professor → full professor (2005) at Waseda
1997–98 — visiting associate professor at Stanford University
1998 onward — concurrent researcher, NSF Center for Silicon Wafer Engineering (US)
Currently — Professor, Waseda Faculty of Science and Engineering; also a managing director (常任理事) of the university
June 3, 2026 — selected by Waseda’s board/faculty vote as the next president candidate, succeeding Aiji Tanaka (whose 2nd term ends Sept 20, 2026); formal confirmation set for a board meeting on Sept 21

Research area: applied physical chemistry / electrochemistry — surface-enhanced Raman scattering, magnetic materials, MEMS, plasmonics, electroless/electrolytic deposition, nanostructure fabrication, scanning probe microscopy. Runs the Homma-Fukunaga Lab at Waseda’s Applied Chemistry department, working on nanoscale fabrication processes, solid-liquid interface reaction control, and computational-chemistry-driven materials design.

Field standing:

Head of the 5th division of the International Society of Electrochemistry
Associate editor, Journal of The Electrochemical Society (US)
Advisory board member, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Director, The Electrochemical Society of Japan
349 research products, 26 research projects logged in KAKEN

Not a household name outside materials/electrochemistry circles — no public footprint in AI/tech. If you’re cross-referencing him for something specific (e.g. a paper co-author, a contact from a conference), happy to dig further.

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