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2021 Tokyo Tech Challenging Research Award Winners including Associate Professor Masayasu SHIMURA Announced

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August 5, 2021

Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) announced on June 18, 2021, ten winners, including Associate Professor Masayasu SHIMURA of the 20th Tokyo Tech Challenging Research Awards. Three of the awardees were also selected for the Suematsu Challenging Research Awards for outstanding research. The award ceremony was held on July 28 via online video conference.

(From top left) Executive Vice President for Research Watanabe, President Masu, and ten award winners

  1.  (From top left)Executive Vice President for Research Watanabe, President Masu, and ten award winners
    (Bottom left is Associate Professor Masayasu Shimura)

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 researchers among the Challenging Research Award winners. This award was established by the "Suematsu Fund", which was created based on the desire of former President Yasuharu Suematsu to support young researchers. When Professor Yasuharu Suematsu received the Japan Prize in 2014, he donated a portion of the prize money to Tokyo Tech, which established the Suematsu Fund to encourage young researchers. The Fund supports mainly young researchers to encourage their research activities to predict and study the development of unexplored scientific and technological systems in diverse fields and to bring the potential future to real society.

This year, The Suematsu Challenging Research Award was awarded to Associate Professor Masaki Uchida, Department of Physics, School of Science; Associate Professor Ayuko Hoshino, Department of Life Science and Technology, School of Life Science and Technology; and Associate Professor Masaki Tahara, Laboratory for Materials and Structures, Institute of Innovative Research.

2021 Tokyo Tech Challenging Research Award Recipients

Name

Affiliation

Title

Research Topic
* Granted Suematsu Challenging Research Award

Masaki UCHIDA別窓

Department of Physics別窓,
School of Science別窓

Associate Professor

* Establishing scientific theory of novel quantum transport based on chiral zero mode

Kotaro FUJII別窓

Department of Chemistry別窓,
School of Science別窓

Assistant Professor

Exploration of novel ionic conductors based on structure science

Masayasu SHIMURA別窓

Department of Mechanical Engineering別窓,
School of Engineering別窓

Associate Professor

Development of plasma assisted turbulent combustor based on characteristics of combustion oscillation transition

Yota TAKAMURA別窓

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering別窓,
School of Engineering別窓

Assistant Professor

Superconducting spin valve Josephson Junction

Yuta KURASHINA別窓

Department of Materials Science and Engineering別窓,
School of Materials and Chemical Technology別窓

Assistant Professor

High sensitivity acoustic responsive microdevice for drug release

Daisuke ISHIKAWA別窓

Department of Chemical Science and Engineering別窓,
School of Materials and Chemical Technology別窓

Assistant Professor

Nanoscale ORIGAMI at two-dimensional interfaces

Ayuko HOSHINO別窓

Department of Life Science and Technology 別窓,
School of Life Science and Technology 別窓

Associate Professor

* Role of maternal-derived exosomes in embryonic brain development

Takamasa KAWANAGO別窓

Laboratory for Future Interdisciplinary Research of Science and Technology別窓,
Institute of Innovative Research別窓

Assistant Professor

Demonstration of High Gain CMOS Inverter at 0.5 V operation Based on WSe2 FET

Masaki TAHARA別窓

Laboratory for Materials & Structures別窓,
Institute of Innovative Research別窓

Associate Professor

* Research on stress-induced phase transformation in shape memory alloy

Takahiro NOMOTO別窓

Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science別窓,
Institute of Innovative Research別窓

Assistant Professor

Development of innovative drug delivery systems utilizing amino acid transporters and systematic analysis of associated factors affecting intravital microenvironment

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Contact

Research Planning Group 1, Research Planning Division

Email kenkik.kik1@jim.titech.ac.jp

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