List of the Past Award Winners

of Mechanical EngineeringElucidation of Materials of a Department of Life Science and

Science School Assistant Professor of Physics, Department of Physics	:	Structural	elucidation and selective generation of quantum luminescence defects generated at the interface between ultrathin SiO2 and SiC
School of Engineering	Daijiro Tokunaga,	Assistant Professor	of the mechanism of bubble formation, growth, and disappearance in laser molten alumina by in situ observation
School of Materials and Chemical Engineering	Assistant Professor	EngineeringYasuharaEstablishment	method for controlling the physical properties of ferroelectric thin films by high-temperature heat treatment
School of Materials and Chemical Engineering Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry		Chihiro HonmaDevelopment	of various functional group introduction methods into polymer chains using cyclic vinyl monomers containing heteroatoms
School of Life Science and Technology	Assistant Professor	Reito Fujioka,	TechnologyEstablishment of a cyclic immuno-Raman staining method using a quenchable Raman probe

Naga, , Department of the , Department of Chemistry, , of Materials Engineering: . Institute of Chemistry and Life Sciences,

Title		identity	Title of Research Project
Science School Koichiro	Assistant Professor	PhysicsOvercoming	Thermoelectric Trade-off by Controlling the Flow Structure of Superconducting Flux Quantum
Science School Keisuke	Hirata,	Assistant Professor	elucidation of the principle of ion selectivity of crown ether by pioneering advanced molecular spectroscopy
School of Materials and Chemical Engineering	Yamaguchi	Assistant Professor	Induction of carbon-carbon bond formation from carbon dioxide on metal sulfides by the Akira potential step method
School of Life Science and Technology Assistant Professor, Department of Life Science and Technology		, Ayumi Nagashima: Exploration	of the molecular mechanism of nutrient transport between mother and child and its comparative evolutionary analysis
Institute of Innovative Research	Daiki Morita	, Assistant Professor,	Exploration of unknown arenylidene species and development of novel molecular conversion methods

. Control Department of Chemistry: Ito, , Department of Life Science and

Title		identity	Title of Research Project
Science School Associate Professor of Physics	,	Hiroaki IshizukaTheoretical	Study of Electron Phonon Interactions in Moiré Superstructures
Science School Assistant Professor, Department of PhysicsYamada		:	Ultrashort pulse light-induced spin currents in heavy metal/magnetic insulator junctions
Science School Assistant Professor of Chemistry	,	Satoshi Kaneko	of electron transport in molecular junctions by modulation of intermolecular interactions
Science School Yusuke	Tamaki,	Assistant Professor,	Development of photosensitizers for spin state control consisting of metal complex-organic molecular complexes
School of Life Science and Technology Eihiro	Assistant Professor	TechnologyElucidation of the mechanism of rare earth element acquisition in methane-abridged bacteria

, Department of Life Science and TechnologyLocalization analysis of Yamada, Institute of Advanced Industrial Materials Research Institute, Institute of Advanced Industrial Technology (COD) Institute for Chemical and Life Sciences,

Title		identity	Title of Research Project
Science School Assistant Professor, Department of Physics	,	Shigeru	Graphene/III.-V semiconductors: Control of hybrid material interfaces
School of Life Science and Technology	Hirokazu Kuwahara	, Assistant Professor	alphaproteobacteria symbiotic with termite intestinal protists by electron microscopy in situ hybridization (EM-ISH) and genome analysis to elucidate the symbiotic evolutionary mechanism of alphaproteobacteria symbiotic with termite intestinal protists
Institute of Innovative Research Tetsuya	Assistant Professor	,	TechnologyExploration of high-speed ionic conductivity phenomena expressed in 2D nanosheets
Institute of Innovative Research	Assistant Professor, Frontier	Qiu Qiu:	Improvement of Deformation Properties of Defect Minimization NiMnGa Alloy Particle/Polymer Composites by Dispersed Phase
Institute of Innovative Research	Ryosuke Takehara,	Assistant Professor,	Topological structure of molecular rotor assemblies and their exofield responses