List of the Past Award Winners

List of past adoptees

2025 Asunaro Research Grant Selection Results

Affiliation	Title	Name	Research topic
Department of Physics, School of Science	Associate Professor	Hiroyuki FUJIOKA	Detailed Study on Low-Energy Antineutron Production to Unveil the Mystery of Matter-Dominated Universe
Department of Chemistry, School of Science	Assistant Professor	Shusuke SATO	Enzymatic synthesis of polycyclopropanated chains
Department of Life Science and Technology, School of Life Science and Technology	Assistant Professor	Ai KOHATA	Chemical control of self-oscillating oil droplets floating on the water surface
Institute of Integrated Research	Assistant Professor	Tomoyuki KURIOKA	Indirect visualization of the electrochemically active phase close to the supercritical carbon dioxide-water interphase using electrodeposited films

2024 Asunaro Research Grant Selection Results

Affiliation	Title	Name	Research topic
Department of Physics, School of Science	Assistant Professor	Satoru ICHINOKURA	Structural elucidation and selective generation of quantum light emission defects at the interface of ultrathin SiO2 and SiC
Department of Mechanical Engineering Major,School of Engineering	Assistant Professor	Daijiro TOKUNAGA	Elucidation for the formation, growth, and disappearance mechanism of bubbles by in situ observation of molten alumina by laser illumination.
Department of Materials Science and Engineering Major, School of Materials and Chemical Technology	Assistant Professor	Sou YASUHARA	High Temperature Annealing Methods for Controlling the properties in Ferroelectric Films.
Department of Chemical Science and Engineering Major, School of Materials and Chemical Technology	Assistant Professor	Chihiro HOMMA	Development of polymers with novel functional groups synthesized from cyclic vinyl monomers with hetero atoms.
Department of Life Science and Technology Major,School of Life Science and Technology	Assistant Professor	Hiroyoshi FUJIOKA	Establishment of cyclic immuno-Raman by using gently quenchable Raman probes.

2023 Asunaro Research Grant Selection Results

Affiliation	Title	Name	Research topic
Department of Physics, School of Science	Assistant Professor	Koichiro IENAGA	Overcoming thermoelectric trade-off by controlling the flow structure of superconducting quantum magnetic flux
Department of Chemistry, School of Science	Assistant Professor	Keisuke HIRATA	Revealing the principles of ion selectivity of crown ethers by cutting-edge molecular spectroscopy
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Materials and Chemical Technology	Assistant Professor	Akira YAMAGUCHI	Induction of carbon-carbon bonding from carbon dioxides on metal sulfide using potential-step method
Department of Life Science and Technology, School of Life Science and Technology	Assistant Professor	Ayumi NAGASHIMA	Exploration of molecular mechanisms of nutrient transport from mother to child and their comparative evolutionary analysis
Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science, Institute of Innovative Research	Assistant Professor	Taiki MORITA	Exploration of Unprecedented Metal-Allenylidene Species and its Application to Novel Synthetic Methodology

2022 Asunaro Research Grant Results

Affiliation	Title	Name	Research topic
Department of Physics, School of Science	Associate Professor	Hiroaki ISHIZUKA	Theory of electron-phonon interaction in moire super-structures
Department of Physics, School of Science	Assistant Professor	Kihiro YAMADA	Creation of spin current by a ultrashort laser pulse in heavy metal/magnetic insulator hetero structures
Department of Chemistry, School of Science	Assistant Professor	Satoshi KANEKO	Control of the Electron Transport of the Molecular Junction by the Modulation of the Intermolecular Interaction
Department of Chemistry, School of Science	Assistant Professor	Yusuke TAMAKI	Development of redox photosensitizer controlling spin orbit coupling using metal complex-organic compound hybrids
Department of Life Science and Technology, School of Life Science and Technology	Assistant Professor	Hidehiro ITO	Understanding the mechanism of rare-earth elements acquisition by methanotrophs

2021 Asunaro Research Grant Results

Affiliation	Title	Name	Research topic
Department of Physics, School of Science	Assistant Professor	Shigeru KAKU	Ideal interface control for Graphene/Ⅲ-V compound semiconductor hybrid materials
Department of Life Science and Technology, School of Life Science and Technology	Assistant Professor	Hirokazu KUWAHARA	Localization analysis with electron microscopy-in situ hybridization (EM-ISH) and elucidation of a symbiotic evolution using genome analysis of symbiotic Alphaproteobacteria in the termite gut
Laboratory for Future Interdisciplinary Research of Science and Technology, Institute of Innovative Research	Assistant Professor	Tetsuya YAMADA	Fast Ion Transport Induced in Two Dimensional Nanosheet
Laboratory for Materials and Structures and Laboratory for Future Interdisciplinary Research of Science and Technology, Institute of Innovative Research	Assistant Professor	Wan-Ting CHIU	Enhancement of the deformation behavior of the defect–less NiMnGa particle/polymer composite by the grain separators
Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science, Institute of Innovative Research	Assistant Professor	Ryosuke TAKEHARA	assembly and their responses to external fields

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