Susumu Kitagawa (北川 進, Kitagawa Susumu, born 4 July 1951) ForMemRS is a Japanese chemist working in the field of coordination chemistry, with specific focus on the chemistry of organic–inorganic hybrid compounds, as well as chemical and physical properties of porous coordination polymers and metal-organic frameworks in particular.

From 1975 to 1979, Kitagawa pursued and obtained a PhD degree in hydrocarbon chemistry, at Kyoto University, where he had previously done his undergraduate studies.

In 2007 he co-founded Institute for Integrated Cell–Material Sciences, and was named deputy director.

[3] Professor Kitagawa has published more than 600 research articles in international journals, and these papers are cited more than 25,000 times (as of October 2017[4]).

Following Makoto Fujita (1994) and Omar M. Yaghi (1995), Kitagawa (1997) discovered that the coordination polymer structure has gas adsorption properties.