13 OU faculty members receive 2020 Commendations for Science and Technology

The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) announced the recipients of the 2020 Commendations for Science and Technology.

In order to motivate those individuals working in the fields of science and technology and contribute to the improvement of science and technology in Japan, MEXT awards the following prizes:

Awards for Science and Technology (Development, Research, Science and Technology Promotion, Technology, Public Understanding Promotion categories)
Young Scientists' Award
Award for Creativity
Outstanding Support for Research Award

This year, from Osaka University, thirteen faculty members received awards.

• Awards for Science and Technology (Research Category)

Name	Position • Affiliation	Name of Achievement
CHIBA Daichi	Professor, Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research	Pioneering research regarding novel control techniques for nano magnetic materials
NAKANO Takayoshi	Professor, Graduate School of Engineering	Study of anisotropic materials
FUJIWARA Yasufumi	Professor, Graduate School of Engineering	Research regarding semiconductor intra-center photonics
YACHIDA Shinichi	Professor, Graduate School of Medicine	Trans-Omics analysis of bacterial effect on CRC incidence

・Awards for Science and Technology (Science and Technology Promotion)

Name	Position • Affiliation	Name of Achievement
NAKAMURA Haruki KURISU Genji	Professor Emeritus, Osaka University Professor, Institute for Protein Research	Contributions to the construction of the Worldwide Protein Data Bank and promotion of its integrated use

・The Young Scientists’ Awards

Name	Position • Affiliation	Name of Achievement
IWATA Natsumi	Specially Appointed Lecturer (Full-time), Institute of Laser Engineering	Basic theoretical research regarding petawatt-laser-plasma interactions
UCHIDA Yoshiaki	Associate Professor, Graduate School of Engineering Science	Study of light-magnetism interaction in soft matter
OCHI Masayuki	Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Science	The first principle research on extended low-dimensional electronic state and physical function
KAWAMOTO Shimpei	Assistant Professor, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases	Study of interactions between the gut microbiota and the immune system
KANG Sujin	Assistant Professor, Immunology Frontier Research Center	Study on regulation of the activation of immune cells via metabolism changes
TAKEDA Youhei	Associate Professor, Graduate School of Engineering	Developing optical functional molecules with a novel synthetic method starting from nitrogen-containing aromatic amines as useful building blocks
HORISAKI Ryoichi	Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology/Presto (sakigake) researcher, Japan Science and Technology Agency (concurrent)	Study of computational optical imaging using information science technology

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Regarding selection of recipients for MEXT's 2020 Commendations for Science and Technology (link in Japanese)

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