2019 Tokyo Tech Challenging Research Award

The 2019 Tokyo Tech Challenging Research Award ceremony was held on September 5^*, and 10 researchers were awarded and 3 of them won the Suematsu Challenging Research Award.

*Another ceremony was held at the President's Office on September 10 for researchers who were absent on September 5.

During the ceremony, President Kazuya Masu gave some words of encouragement, which were followed by presentations of three Suematsu Challenging Research Award winners on their respective research topics.

Tokyo Tech established the Challenging Research Award with the aim of encouraging young faculty members at the Institute to engage in challenging research. It recognizes creative, up-and-coming researchers who boldly pursue the promotion of the most advanced research in the world, pioneering of new fields of study, innovative development of new research, and important issues that are difficult to solve. The Suematsu Challenging Research Award is given to the highest qualified group among the Challenging Research Award winners.

The 18th Tokyo Tech Challenging Research Awards went to ten researchers each of whom will receive a research grant.

2019 Tokyo Tech Challenging Research Award recipients

Name	Affiliation	Title	Research topic
Michiaki Onodera	Department of Mathematics, School of Science	Associate Professor	Dynamical approach to free boundary problems
Hiroyuki Fujioka	Department of Physics, School of Science	Associate Professor	Structure of Vacuum and Origin of Mass Investigated with η' Mesons
Yoshio Ando	Department of Chemistry, School of Science	Assistant Professor	Development of photo-iduced stereocontrol of dynamic stereochemistry: Toward synthesis of complex natural products
Masao Yamagishi	Department of Information and Communications Engineering, School of Engineering	Assistant Professor	Hierarchical semialgebraic optimization and its applications to signal processing
Kota Suzuki	Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, School of Materials and Chemical Technology	Assistant Professor	Development of lithium ion conducting solids based on ionic conductive property prediction using machine learning
Masayoshi Tanaka	Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, School of Materials and Chemical Technology	Assistant Professor	Peptide modeling for gold nanoparticle synthesis regulation toward advanced medical applications
Yoshiaki Masaki	Department of Life Science and Technology, School of Life Science and Technology	Assistant Professor	* Development of Chemically Modified Nucleic Acids for Supression of RNaseH-Dependent Off-Target Effect
Takayoshi Katase	Laboratory for Materials and Structures, Institute of Innovative Research	Associate Professor	* Design and demonstration of novel thermal-electronic coupling functions in low-dimensional semiconductors
Shintaro Yasui	Laboratory for Materials and Structures, Institute of Innovative Research	Assistant Professor	Development of Li ion thin film battery with ultrahigh rate charge/discharge performance assisted by ferroelectrics
Keisuke Yoshida	Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science, Institute of Innovative Research	Assistant Professor	* Dissecting redox-based regulatory network of plant photosynthesis

*The Suematsu Challenging Research Award

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