Tokyo Tech Announces the 2023 Challenging Research Award Recipients
The 22nd Tokyo Tech Challenging Research Awards went to ten researchers each of whom will receive a research grant. The Suematsu Challenging Research Award was given to the three highest qualified researchers among the Challenging Research Award winners. The award ceremony was held on August 31.
Commemorative photo of the ceremony
President Kazuya Masu (left) presenting the award to Asst. Prof. Youyou Cong
Asst. Prof. Yuki Nagashima, one of the awardees, delivered a presentation about his research topic.
Honorary Professor Yasuharu Suematsu gave congratulatory remarks to winners.
The grant was established 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.
2023 Tokyo Tech Challenging Research Award recipients
Kazuyuki SEKIZAWA
Associate Professor, Department of Physics, School of Science
Developing a Microscopic Theory for Quantum Many-Body Tunneling
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- Department of Physics, School of Science
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Jiang PU
Associate Professor, Department of Physics, School of Science
Transport and Optical Properties in 1D Moire Superlattice
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- Department of Physics, School of Science
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Kazumi OZAKI
Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, School of Science
Identification of the tipping point for global ocean deoxygenation considering the P-S-Fe cycles
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- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, School of Science
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Yasuhide MOCHIZUKI
Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Materials and Chemical Technology
Elucidation of universal mechanism of phonon-induced negative thermal expansion
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Materials and Chemical Technology
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Yuki NAGASHIMA
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, School of Materials and Chemical Technology
Development of Organic Photoreactions Based on Theoretical and Experimental Studies
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- Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, School of Materials and Chemical Technology
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Youyou CONG
Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Department of Mathmatical and Computing Science, School of Computing
Developing a Typed Programming Language for Ensuring Fuzzy Specification
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- Department of Mathmatical and Computing Science, School of Computing
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Takashi KANAMORI
Assistant Professor, Department of Life Science and Technology, School of Life Science and Technology
Development of genome photo-oxidation method and understanding of epigenetics with oxidatively damaged bases
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- Department of Life Science and Technology, School of Life Science and Technology
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Satoshi OKADA
Associate Professor, Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science, Institute of Innovative Research
Development of Magnetic Probes for Molecular Whole-Brain Neuroimaging
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- Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science, Institute of Innovative Research
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Seiichiro IZAWA
Associate Professor, Laboratory for Materials and Structures, Institute of Innovative Research
Blue Organic Light-Emitting Diode with Extremely Low Driving
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- Laboratory for Materials and Structures, Institute of Innovative Research
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Hiroki TAKASU
Associate Professor, Laboratory for Zero-Carbon Energy, Institute of Innovative Research
Development of next-generation solid oxide reversible cell using metal support