The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science is expected to be the future leader of Japanese academic research based on the selection of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Award Judging Committee (Chairman: Ryoji Noyori, Director of Research and Development Strategy Center, Japan Science and Technology Agency). (13) 2016 winners of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Awards have been decided.

 The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Award recognizes young researchers who are highly creative and have excellent research ability from an early stage, motivate them to do research, support the development of research, and raise the level of academic research in Japan to the top level in the world. It was founded in 2004 with the intention of developing it.

 The target fields are all fields of humanities, social sciences and natural sciences.The award conditions are those who are recognized as having achieved particularly excellent academic achievements through papers, books, and other research achievements published in domestic and foreign academic journals, under the age of 45, obtained a doctoral degree, and foreigners. In this case, he has belonged to a research institution such as a university as a researcher for more than 5 years in Japan, and plans to continue his research activities in Japan in the future.

 In the selection process, the winners will be decided by a rigorous screening committee consisting of top-level academic researchers from Japan representing each field from among the 380 candidates. In fiscal 2016, Professor Daiji Kawaguchi (Graduate School of Economics, Tokyo Institute of Technology) in "Quantitative Economics Research on Inequality in the Japanese Labor Market" and Kazuhiko Maeda in "Development of Artificial Photosynthesis Systems Centered on Semiconductor Photocatalysts" Twenty-five people, including an associate professor (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Faculty of Science), received the award.

 The award ceremony will be held at the Japan Academy on February 2017, 2, and the winners will be awarded a research incentive of 8 million yen as a certificate, a prize, and a supplementary prize.In addition, with the cooperation of the Japan Academy of Sciences, the Japan Academy of Sciences Encouragement Award will be awarded to up to 110 of the recipients of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Award.

Reference: [Japan Society for the Promotion of Science] The winners of the XNUMXth (XNUMX) Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Award have been decided.

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