Naoki Furuta

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Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry

Professor Naoki Furuta received a Bachelor of Science degree from Tokyo Metropolitan University in 1973, and Master of Science from the University of Tokyo in 1975. After working at the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) for 19 years (1975-1994), he moved to Chuo University, where he became a professor at Department of Applied Chemistry. While working he earned a Doctor of Science degree from the�University of Tokyo in 1979. From 1979 to 1981 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta under the direction of Professor Gary Horlick. His current research interests include the determination of total concentration of trace elements and their chemical species, the identification of sources of toxic elements in environmental samples, elucidation of the role of trace elements in biological samples, the development of analytical methods such as a laser ablation and on-line column pre-concentration, and the evaluation of new instruments such as ICP-MS using an ion trap mass spectrometer.