**Etsuo Yonemochi**

Etsuo Yonemochi, Pharmacist and Professor of Department of Physical Chemistry at Hoshi University, was born in 1961. He graduated Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University (1985), and received Ph. D. (1991). In 1987, he joined the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University as a Research Associate, then he spent two years at the School of Pharmacy, University of London as a research fellow. He moved to Toho University as an Associate Professor in 1996 and moved to Hoshi University in 2013. His main fields of interests are Characterization of pharmaceutical products and Application of in silico simulation and various analytical method to pharmaceutical formulation. He is a Chairman of the Japanese Pharmacopoeia Analytical Methods Committee, a President of Japan Society of Pharmaceutical Machinery and Engineering, and Board of directors of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan and the Academy of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology Japan. His hobby is putting his horses into racing.
