The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science is based on the selection of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Award Judging Committee (Chair: Ryoji Noyori, Director of the Research and Development Strategy Center, Japan Science and Technology Agency), which is composed of top-level academic researchers in Japan. Twenty-five winners of the 2017 "14th Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Award", which are expected to be future leaders in research, have been selected.
The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Award, which was established in 2004, aims to advance the level of academic research in Japan by finding young researchers with excellent research ability and supporting the development of research.
The recipients of the award are doctors under the age of 45 (or those with academic research abilities equal to or higher than the doctors) in the fields of humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, and are particularly academically superior due to their research achievements such as papers. A researcher who has achieved results.
In 2017, 423 winners will be selected from 2017 candidates at the award judging committee on November 11, 1.The youngest award winners were Assistant Professor Sou Nakatani (25 years old, Faculty of Education, Shinshu University), who was evaluated for his research achievements in "elucidation of the concrete phase of national formation in late medieval Italy", and "Quantum by introducing gamma structure". It was Associate Professor Hiroshi Iriya (37 years old, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University) of "New Developments in Cohomology and Mirror Symmetry Research".
The award ceremony will be held at the Japan Academy on February 2018, 2, and the winners will be awarded a research incentive of 7 million yen as a certificate, a prize, and a supplementary prize.In addition, with the cooperation of the Japan Academy Medal, the Japan Academy Medal Academic Encouragement Award will be awarded to up to 110 of the recipients of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Award.
