The IROAST has selected the candidates for our new research support programs.

The IROAST supports programs that promote world-leading interdisciplinary research in the natural science fields.

This year, the IROAST has launched two new research support programs, as below, and called for applications from researchers in the science and technology field of Kumamoto University. 

♦  IROAST Start-up Program for Formulation of Joint Research Hub by Crossing Departments 2021

♦  Young Faculty Members Support Program for New IROAST Major Research Area FY2021

The following researchers were selected for each program.

IROAST Start-up Program for Formulation of Joint Research Hub by Crossing Departments 2021
部局横断による共同研究拠点形成スタートアップ事業

The following are the selected faculty members of the above-mentioned program, a new program for this year. As a start-up program of IROAST, which enters its second phase next year, this program aims to support the launch of joint research groups in challenging and highly sustainable new research areas with researchers in different fields.

Professor NAKANISHI, Yoshitaka
Research Theme: The engineering for interactions, communications and fusions in boundaries
Research Keywords: Construction of communication method for promoting an advanced interdisciplinary research crossing advanced science and life science.
Research Fields: Science / Engineering / Medical

Associate Professor SUGIMOTO, Manabu
Research Theme: Development of Electronic-Structure Informatics Platform for Natural-Product Drug Discovery
Research Keywords: Computational chemistry, Quantum chemistry, Computer simulation,
Materials informatics, Chemoinformatics, Natural product, Drug discovery, Information engineering, e-Learning, Project-based learning, Instructional design, Cognitive psychology
Research Fields: ChemistryChemistry / Physics / Biology / Computational Science / Pharmaceutical Science / Education / Psychology

Professor KIDA, Tetsuya
Research Theme: Valorization of “Blue Carbon” for Sustainable Well-Being
Research Keywords: Chemical engineering
Research Fields: Engineering / Pharmacy / Interdisciplinary (Sociology, History, Politics)

Associate Professor LEE, Ruda
Research Theme: The Effect of Urban Forestry on Lung Health in Fine Dust Environment
Research Keywords: Green Urbanisation
Research Fields: Science / Engineering / Medical

Professor HAYAMI, Shinya
Research Theme: Construction of antiviral social and agricultural infrastructures based on nanomaterials
Research Keywords: Nanoscience, Material chemistry, Virology, Information science, Medical science, Biology, Agriculture, Environmental science
Research Fields: Science / Engineering / Medical

Young Faculty Members Support Program for New IROAST Major Research Area FY2021
次期重点領域に係る若手研究者支援事業

The following are the selected young faculty members of the above-mentioned program, a new program for this year. This program focuses on young researchers who have the potential to make international breakthroughs in the field of science and technology and supports them in taking up the challenge of pioneering, high-potential research.

Assistant Professor TSAI, Allen Yi-Lun
Research Theme: Soil chemotactic signal perception and response of plant-parasitic nematodes
Research Keywords: Plant-parasitic nematodes, chemotaxis, epigenetics, mutagenesis, behavior inheritance
Research Fields: Botany

Associate Professor UEDA, Akira
Research Theme: Development of novel highly processable super/high conducting materials composed of purely organic small molecules
Research Keywords: Functional organic material, Superconductivity, Materials development, High processability
Research Fields: Chemistry (mainly Physical chemistry, Solid-state chemistry)

Project Assistant Professor AHMAD, Sohail
Research Theme: Super selective hydrogen separation membranes based on two-dimensional carbon nanosheets: Toward a stable supply of hydrogen energy
Research Keywords: Materials Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Research Fields: Hydrogen energy, Graphene oxide, Membrane, H2 Separation

Associate Professor SEKINE, Yoshihiro
Research Theme: Development of Diamond Spin-Qubit Based on Graphene Oxide
Research Keywords: New structural material, Functional material
Research Fields: Spin-Qubit, Quantum computer, Graphene oxide, Elemental doping, Diamond

Project Assistant Professor NOZU, Ryo
Research Theme: Comparative genomics reveals the mechanism of gonadal sex change in fishes
Research Keywords: Fishes, Gonad, Sex change, Comparative genomics
Research Fields: Fisheries biology

Assistant Professor INOMATA, Yusuke
Research Theme: Development of Alkaline Copper Halide Based Circularly Polarized Luminescent Materials
Research Keywords: Circularly polarized luminescence, Chirality, Copper, Halide
Research Fields: New structural material, New functional material