应低维物理与化学研究部龚流柱教授的邀请，11月28日，日本Department of Chemistry, Tohoku University的Prof. Masahiro Terada前来实验室进行学术交流与访问，并为师生们做“Chiral Phosphoric Acids as Versatile Catalysts for Enantioselective Transformations”的学术报告。
　　Masahiro Terada graduated from Department of Applied Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1986 and received his PhD in 1993 from Tokyo Institute of Technology. He was appointed as an Assistant Professor in Professor Mikami’s Laboratory at Tokyo Institute of Technology (1989). He worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Professor M. D. Shair at Harvard University in 1999-2000 and moved to Tohoku University as an Associate Professor in 2001. He has been a Professor of Chemistry at the Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University (Japan) since 2006. Now he has published more than 150 papers (including review articles) and 16 patents. He is the recipient of the Incentive Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan (2003), The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work (2008), and Mukaiyama Award (2010). ACP Lectureship Award 2010 form China and Hong Kong. He is now a Head Investigator of Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “Advanced Molecular Transformations by Organocatalysts”, supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from The MEXT, Japan (FY 2011-2015). His current research interests are focused on the development of new and useful synthetic methodologies based on the design of novel chiral Brønsted acid and base catalysts as well as the utilization of transition metal catalysts.