The new SPRING GX (since April 2024) is a project involving approximately 1,307 doctoral students (including those in 4-year doctoral programs) from across the university.
July 6, 2026
Chihaya Koyama has been awarded Student Presentation Award at the Physical Society of Japan for his research titled 'Study of orbital states in spinel-type oxides AV2O4 (A=Fe, Mn) using valence electron density analysis’. Congratulations!!
July 6, 2026
Ryoma Sonoyama's research paper, "Circularly Polarized Azimuthally Omnidirectional Terahertz Fan-Beam Tracking with Electronic Polarization Synthesis", has been published in the IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology. Congratulations!!
July 6, 2026
Wenzhao DONG's research paper, "Provenance–weathering–transport coupling and the muted Quaternary volcanic signal in modern fluvial sands of the Kanto Plain, Japan", has been published in the Quaternary Science Reviews, Elsevier. Congratulations!!
July 6, 2026
Kei Futagawa has been awarded the Outstanding Poster Presentation Award at the 52nd Symposium on Biomolecular Science and the 5th Symposium on Bio-Metal Science for his research titled "Elucidation of the Mechanism of Aragonite Nanofiber Formation by the Biomineralization Peptide LICP in Bivalve Ligaments". Congratulations!!
July 6, 2026
Yohei Sukita has been awarded the Best Poster Award (Student Division) at the LSI and Systems Workshop organized by the IEICE Technical Committee on Integrated Circuits and Devices for his research titled 'Demonstration of Breaking the Loss–EMI Trade-off in a 1 kW Isolated DC–DC Converter Using Active Gate Driving
July 6, 2026
Daisuke Kanagaki has been awarded the Young Researcher Presentation Award (Wooden Structures Division) at the 2025 AIJ Annual Convention (Kyushu) for his presentation entitled “Study on Bearing Reinforcement Using Screws for Timber Structures Based on Finite Element Analysis. Congratulations!!
July 6, 2026
Kazutaka Ota's research paper, "Impact of cooling garments on performance during and after vigorous, heart-rate-clamped exercise in young males under hot and humid conditions", has been published in the Physiological Reports. Congratulations!!
July 6, 2026
Helix Lo's research paper, "AI-assisted teams outperform AI-led teams but not human-only teams in assessing research reproducibility in quantitative social science", has been published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Congratulations!!
July 6, 2026
Chihaya Koyama has been awarded the Outstanding Poster Award at the 'Unveiling, Design, and Development of Asymmetric Quantum Matters' FY2026 All-Project Meeting and Kickoff Meeting for Open Call Research Projects for his research titled 'Real-space determination of orbital states driving successive phase transitions in FeV2O4’. Congratulations!!
July 6, 2026
Kazuha Takai's research paper, "Size-dependent decadal changes in seabass growth in an urbanized bay revealed by angler-based tagging data", has been published in the Hydrobiologia. Congratulations!!
July 6, 2026
Sumire Kobayashi has been awarded the Audience Award at the DROPLET2026 for her research titled 'Analysis of the Effects of Microbial Amendments on Soil Bacteria Enabled by Water-in-Oil Droplet Technology’. Congratulations!!
July 6, 2026
Kazuaki Arai has been awarded the Outstanding Presentation Award at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Exercise Epidemiology for his research titled 'The Impact of a Large Retail Facility Closure on the Step Counts of Nearby Residents: A Quasi-Experimental Study Using a Difference-in-Differences Analysis’. Congratulations!!
July 6, 2026
Nana Misawa's research paper, "Changes in Susceptibility to Heat on Suicide Mortality within Summer in Japan, 1973–2020: A Two-Stage Time-Series Analysis", has been published in the Psychiatry Research. Congratulations!!
July 6, 2026
Sumire Kobayashi has been awarded the Outstanding Poster Award at the 24th AIST–Sangiren LS-BT Joint Research symposium for her research titled 'Analysis of the Effects of Microbial Amendments on Individual Soil Bacteria Using a Water-in-Oil Droplet Co-Cultivation Method’. Congratulations!!
July 6, 2026
Helix Lo has been awarded the 1st Runner-Up 2026 CPSA Poster Prize at the 2026 CPSA Conference for his research titled "The Nuances of Citizenship and Citizenship Norms: Insights from Japan." Congratulations!!
July 6, 2026
Takuto Ohmura has been awarded the Poster Award at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Protein Science Society of Japan for his research titled 'ML/MM toolkit: End-to-End Workflow for Computing Activation Gibbs Free Energies from Enzyme–Substrate Complexes Using ML Interatomic Potentials’. Congratulations!!
July 6, 2026
Tomoya Akiyama's research paper, "Mirage of maturity: How social dynamics alone can generate the Hype Cycle of technological expectations", has been published in the Technological Forecasting and Social Change. Congratulations!!
July 6, 2026
Helix Lo has been awarded Best Poster Award at the 1st International Online Conference on Social Sciences for his research titled 'Please Vote! Exploring Celebrities' Effect on Mobilising Young Voters in Japan’. Congratulations!!
April 28, 2026
Shunki Tsumagari has been awarded the Best Student Paper Award at the 14th International Conference on Information and Education Technology (ICIET) 2026 for his research titled 'Examining the Influence of Co-Creation Perception in Associative Creation with Generative AI on Memory Consolidation’. Congratulations!!
April 20, 2026
Merkur Smajlaj has been named to the ‘Forbes 30 Under 30 2025’ list for the DACH region (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) in recognition of his entrepreneurial and scientific engagement. Congratulations!!
Forbes 30 under 30 Europe in Category Manufacturing and industry
April 17, 2026
A research paper by Yutaro Nirasawa’s research group, entitled ‘Impact of Aggregational Growth Modeling on the Intensification of Extreme Tropical Cyclones through Radiative Feedbacks’, has been published in Atmospheric Science Letters. Congratulations!!
Press release
April 10, 2026
A research paper by Kei Futagawa’s research group, entitled ‘Elucidation of the aragonite nanofiber formation mechanism of LICP contained in the hinge ligament of Pinctada fucata’, has been published in PNAS. Congratulations!!
Press release
April 8, 2026
Yuni Eeh's research paper "Reconstructing professional identity in cross-cultural clinical practice: a Dialogical Autoethnography of a Korean counselor in Japan" has been published in the International Review of Psychiatry (Taylor & Francis). Congratulations!!
The "Fostering Advanced Human Resources to Lead Green Transformation (GX)" project proposed by Professor Shin-ichi Ohkoshi (Project officer) has been accepted as a program for Support for Pioneering Research Initiated by Next Generation (SPRING) of Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) from autumn, 2021. Hereinafter this project is referred to as "SPRING GX". 1,315 doctoral students from all schools of the University of Tokyo participate in this project.
