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Six OU Faculty Members Awarded 20th JSPS Prize
On Wednesday, December 20, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science announced the recipients of the 20th JSPS Prize, with 6 Osaka University faculty members receiving the prize.
The JSPS Prize was established with the aim of developing the level of research in Japan at the world’s highest level by discovering young researchers with outstanding, creative research ability and recognizing their achievements from the early stages of their careers in order to foster their motivation for and support the development of their research.
25 individuals were chosen to receive this award in the fields of humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
The award ceremony for the JSPS Prize will take place in March 2024 at Meiji Kinenkan (Tokyo).
Name | AFFILIATION | RESEARCH TITLE |
|---|---|---|
ONODA Fuko | Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Humanities | Research on Swahili Authors and on the Developmental History and Social Functions of Swahili Poetry |
NISHIMOTO Shinji | Professor, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences | Modeling and Decoding of Internal Representations in the Brain |
FUKAYA Hidenori | Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Science | Investigation of Topology of Gauge Theory with Domain Wall Fermion |
MAEKAWA Takuya | Associate Professor, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology | Artificial Intelligence for Real World Recognition and its Application to Animal Behavior Analysis and Anomaly Detection |
YACHIE Nozomu | Specially Appointed Professor, WPI Premium Research Institute for Human Metaverse Medicine (WPI-PRIMe) | Development of Cell Lineage Tracing Technology by Genome |
YAMASHITA Takuro | Professor, Osaka School of International Public Policy | Theory of Design of Economic Mechanisms and Information, and its Applications to Analyses of Auctions, Markets, and Organizations |
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor Onoda
Professor Nishimoto
Assistant Professor Fukaya
Associate Professor Maekawa
Specially Appointed Professor Yachie
Professor Yamashita