List of the Past Award Winners

FY2023 Yoshinori Ohsumi Award for Fundamental Research Results

Affilitaion	Title	Name	Research topic
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, School of Science	Assistant Professor	Yuta Amezawa	Study of the crustal fluid distribution based on systematic waveform classification and seismic wave propagation analysis of seismic later phases
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, School of Science	Assistant Professor	Kei Tanaka	How to Form the Most Massive Stars
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, School of Environment and Society	Associate Professor	Mai Sawada	Mechanism of wet-dry cycles-induced soil degradation based on internal stress measurements —aiming to establish future maintenance methods for earth structures—

FY2022 Yoshinori Ohsumi Basic Research Support Results

Affilitaion	Title	Name	Research topic
Department of Physics, School of Science	Assistant Professor	Tatsuichi Nishihaya	Elucidation of quantum spin transport phenomena at magnetic Weyl metalloid-heterointerfaces
School of Life Science	Assistant Professor	Eihiro Ito	of the biological significance of rare earth metalloenzymes

FY2021 Yoshinori Ohsumi Basic Research Support Results

Affilitaion	Title	Name	Research topic
Department of Physics	Assistant Professor	Yohei Yamaguchi	of Higgs field phase transitions in the early universe elucidated from accelerators and low-temperature systems
School of Life Science and Technology	Assistant Professor	Tetsuro Iwata	TechnologyElucidation of the genomic structural and physiological functions of the olfactory receptor subfamily that forms a large gene cluster
School of Life Science and Technology of the Department of Life Science and Technology	Lecturer	Tetsu Kondo	Elucidation of the meaning of the organization of photosynthetic photoreaction systems

2020 Yoshinori Ohsumi Basic Research Support Results

Affilitaion	Title	Name	Research topic
Science School of Chemistry	Associate Professor	Kosuke Ono	Lewis acidity of immobilized boroxine
School of Materials and Chemical Engineering	Assistant Professor	Takuto Soma	Elucidation of “heavy” electrons in two-dimensional transparent superconductors
Earth-Life Science InstituteProject	Assistant Professor	Jia Tony Z	Origin of primitive membrane-free cells by polyester microdroplet protocells

2019 Yoshinori Ohsumi Basic Research Support Results

Affilitaion	Title	Name	Research topic
Science School of Chemistry	Assistant Professor	Masahiro Yamashina	of multicolor fluorescent supramolecular polymers using Janus-type molecular tweezers
Life Science	Assistant Professor	Kohei Sato	of peptide self-assembly phenomena in “closed microspace”
School of Life Science and Technology Department of Life Science and Technology	Assistant Professor	Tatsuki Nagasawa	Evolutionary and Developmental Analysis of Hatching Gland Cells -Aiming to propose a new evolutionary model-
Institute of Innovative Research Institute of Chemistry and Life Sciences	Assistant Professor	Takamasa Tukamoto	Experimental demonstration of “superdegenerate materials” with symmetry exceeding

2018 Yoshinori Ohsumi Basic Research Support Results

Affilitaion	Title	Name	Research topic
Science School Physics	Associate Professor	Kiyotaka Aikawa	Generation of quantum states using single nanoparticles in a vacuum
Science School	Assistant Professor	Koichiro Ienaga	PhysicsPub/SubDetection of vortex bose condensation by measuring the thermal response of two-dimensional superconducting thin films at cryogenic temperatures
Science School of Physics, Department of Physics Basic	Associate Professor	Toru Hirahara	surface dependence of superconductivity properties of single-layer FeSe: Toward elucidation of the origin of high-temperature superconductivity
Science School of Chemistry	Assistant Professor	Kenta Minase	Development of an experimental solution to the Schrödinger equation based on molecular video recording
Science School Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences	Associate Professor	Kenji Ota	Determination of the melting point of iron up to geocentric pressure using X-ray CT technology
Institute of Innovative Research	Assistant Professor	Keisuke Yoshida	SciencesElucidation of protein oxidation mechanism that suppresses photosynthesis

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