A new journal covering the research fields related to biometals
Professor Emeritus Hiroki Haraguchi
graduated from the University of Tokyo (1965), from which he also received M. Sci. and Ph. D. degrees in 1967 and 1973, respectively. Since 1969, he served as assistant professor in the University of Tokyo, research chemist in the National Institute for Environmental Studies, and associate professor in the University of Tokyo. From 1975 to 1977, he was a postdoctoral fellow in University of Florida, where he worked with Prof. J. D. Winefordner. He was promoted to full professor of analytical chemistry laboratory in Department of Applied Chemistry of Nagoya University in 1988, and retired from there in 2007. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Nagoya University as well as the program officer of the Ministry of Environment and the associate member of Science Council of Japan. His research interests are development of highly-sensitive analytical methods for chemical speciation of trace elements in biological, environmental and geochemical systems. He proposed "metallomics as integrated biometal science in J. Anal. At. Spectromet. in 2004, which has been receiving great attention as a newly emerging scientific field in life science, complementary to genomics and proteomics Furthermore, he has been desiring to establish the concept of "cell microcosm", which indicates the existence of all elements in a single biological cell.
