International Joint Research Program
Joint Research Programs: Data
| Program | FY | Number of Planned Awards | Number of Applications for Full Proposal | Actual Number of Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JRP with NSFC | FY 2019 | Around 4 | 35 | 4 |
| JRP-LEAD with UKRI | FY 2021 | Around 10 | 166 | 10 |
| JRP-LEAD with UKRI | FY 2018 | Around 10 | 169 | 10 |
| JRP-LEAD with DFG | FY 2022 | Around 8 | 43 | 8 |
| JRP-LEAD with DFG | FY 2018 | Around 10 | 25 | 9 |
| JRPs with SNSF | FY 2022 | Around 10 | 67 | 10 |
| JRPs with SNSF | FY 2019 | 8～10 | 21 | 8 |
| JRPs with SNSF | FY 2016 | 2～4 | 38 | 4 |
- JRP with NSFC
- JRP-LEAD with UKRI
- JRP-LEAD with DFG
- JRPs with SNSF
FY2019
| Title of Project | PI（Japan） | Affiliation（Japan） | PI（China） | Affiliation（China） |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supercritical Fluid Assisted Contaminated Soil Remediation: Key Mass Transfer Issues and Technological Development | Atsuki KOMIYA |
Professor, Tohoku University |
Lin CHEN |
Professor, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Modeling coastal gravel transport towards sustainable remediation of coastal erosion | Yoshimitsu TAJIMA |
Professor, The University of Tokyo |
Xiping YU |
Professor, Tsinghua University |
| The enhanced microbial dehalorespriation efficiency and metabolic regulation mechanism in the weak electrical energy involved bioremediation system in groundwater | Naoko YOSHIDA |
Associate Professor, Nagoya Institute of Technology |
Zhiling LI |
Associate Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology |
| Development of environmentally benign chemical processes for sustainable society | Tamao ISHIDA |
Associate Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University |
Botao QIAO |
Professor, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
FY2021
| Title of Project | PI（Japan） | Affiliation（Japan） | PI（UK） | Affiliation（UK） |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Innovation and complementary capabilities for vaccines | IIZUKA Michiko |
Professor, Graduate School of Policy Studies, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies |
Anabel Ivana Soledad MARIN |
Leader, Business, Markets & State Cluster, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex |
| Covid19 and the Law - Protection and Recovery for Vulnerable Groups | NISHITANI Yuko |
Professor, Graduate School of Law, Kyoto University |
Eva LEIN |
Leader, Business, Markets & State Cluster, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex |
| AN INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY ON MEDICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: RESCUING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN PANDEMIC EMERGENCIES FROM THE "TRAGEDY OF THE ANTICOMMONS" | MAEDA Takeshi |
Professor, Graduate School of Law, Kobe Univerisity |
Roy Andrew PARTAIN |
Professor, School of Law, University of Aberdeen (Scotland) |
| Measuring Trust and its Variance during the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Serial Surveys and Quantitative Text Analysis | SUNAHARA Yosuke |
Professor, Graduate School of Law, Kobe Univerisity Steve David |
Steve David PICKERING |
Senior Lecturer, Social and Political Sciences, Brunel University London |
| Comparative research on pastoral societies in post-Covid19 Inner Asian countries: case study of Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan | OZAKI Takahiro |
Professor, Faculty of law, economics and humanities, Kagoshima University |
Ariell Ligham AHEARN | Departmental Lecturer, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford |
| The COVID-19 shock: continuity and change in labour markets and employment policies in Japan and the UK. | TSURU Kotaro |
Professor, Business and Commerce, Keio University |
Jonathan PORTES |
Professor, Department of Political Economy, King's College London |
| Sustainable Cultural Futures: COVID-19 and Resetting Cultural Policy | KAWASHIMA Nobuko |
Professor, Faculty of Economics, Doshisha University |
Hye-Kyung LEE |
Reader, Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, King's College London |
| Creative Collaborations: Salons and Networks in Kyoto and Osaka 1780-1880 | AKAMA Ryo |
Professor, College of Letters, Ritsumeikan University |
Akiko YANO |
Curator, Department of Asia, British Museum |
| Learning from the trajectories of mental health challenges for children, young people and parents across Japan and UK over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed method analysis | MORISAKI Naho |
Director, Department of Social Medicine, National Center for Child Health and Development |
Simona SKRIPKAUSKAITE |
Post-doctoral researcher, Experimental Psychology & Psychiatry, University of Oxford |
| Understanding Cross-Signing Phenomena in Video Conferencing Situations during/post- COVID-19 | BONO Mayumi |
Associate Professor, National Institute of Informatics, Research Organization of Information and Systems |
Robert ADAM |
Assistant Professor, Languages and Intercultural Communication, Heriot-Watt University |
FY2018
| Title of Project | PI（Japan） | Affiliation（Japan） | PI（UK） | Affiliation（UK） |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Functional interplay of ciliary trafficking complexes and motor proteins | Kazuhisa NAKAYAMA |
Professor, Kyoto University |
David J. STEPHENS |
Professor, School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol |
| Shared challenges to form a spindle without centrosomes in plants and animals | Gohta GOSHIMA |
Professor, Nagoya University |
Hiroyuki OHKURA |
Professor, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh |
| Memory dynamics: the cellular signatures of systems memory | Thomas MCHUGH |
Team Leader, RIKEN |
Matthew W. JONES |
Professor, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience, University of Bristol |
| Genome stability established through epigenome plasticity during ageing and rejuvenation | Yasuyuki OHKAWA |
Professor, Kyushu University |
Masashi NARITA |
Group Leader, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge |
| Structure-based vaccine design: using structural information from HIV-2 to design better HIV-1 immunogens | Katsumi MAENAKA |
Professor, Hokkaido University |
Sarah ROWLAND-JONES |
Professor, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford |
| Establishment of non-human primate pluripotent stem cells and its characterization | Hiromitsu NAKAUCHI |
Distinguished Professor, The University of Tokyo |
Austin SMITH |
Professor, Wellcome-MRC Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge |
| Quantifying Human Influence on Ocean Melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet | Satoshi KIMURA |
Scientist, Japan Agency for Marine-earth Science and Technology |
Paul HOLLAND |
Shelf Seas Group Leader, British Antarctic Survey |
| Continuous chemical speciation of Asian VOC emissions for understanding the growth of surface ozone in East Asia | Takuya SAITO |
Senior Researcher, National Institute for Environmental Studies |
Alastair Charles LEWIS |
Professor, University of York |
| Genetics and evolutionary dynamics of male-killer suppression in the lacewing, Mallada desjardinsi | Daisuke KAGEYAMA |
Principal Researcher, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization |
Greg HURST |
Professor, University of Liverpool |
| Geodynamics and Tectonics Plate Analysis based on Distributed Optical Fibre Acoustic Sensors | Eiichiro ARAKI |
Deputy Group Leader, Japan Agency for Marine-earth Science and Technology |
Gilberto BRAMBILLA |
Professor, Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton |
FY2022
| Title of Project | PI（Japan） | Affiliation（Japan） | PI（Germany） | Affiliation（Germany） |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anion Defect Chemistry for Advanced Battery Materials | Takashi NAKAMURA |
Associate Professor, Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University |
Juergen JANEK | Professor, Justus Liebig University Giessen |
| Material-structure-property relations in bifunctional electrodes for metal oxygen batteries - homogenous material synthesis and advanced operando analysis | Hajime ARAI |
Professor, School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
Daniel SCHROEDER | Full Professor, Technische Universitaet Braunschweig |
| New AlPN/GaN semiconductor heterojunctions for better GaN based electronics | Markus PRISTOVSEK |
Dedicated Professor, Institute of Materials and Systems for Sustainability, Nagoya University |
Eberhard RICHTER | Research associate, Group leader, Ferdinand-Braun-Institute, Leibniz-Institute for High-Frequency Technology |
| Photo-responsive electrode materials and multifunctional electrolytes for Li-ion batteries for multi-modal energy harvesting | Yuki YAMADA |
Professor, SANKEN, Osaka University |
Sanjay MATHUR | Director, Professor, University of Cologne |
| Interdisciplinary study on degradation of material strength due to high-temperature hydrogen for safety of advanced high-temperature hydrogen technologies | Masanobu KUBOTA |
Professor, International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research, Kyushu University |
Cynthia Ann VOLKERT | Professor, University of Gottingen |
| Modelling and Understanding the Mechanism of Electrode Densification for Sulfidic All-Solid-State Lithium-Ion Batteries | Shuji OHSAKI |
Associate Professor, Engineering, Osaka Metropolitan University |
Peter MICHALOWSKI | Head of Research Department Battery Process Engineering, Technical University of Braunschweig |
| Development of Hybrid Single-Atom Photocatalysts based on Graphene Quantum Dots and 2D Materials Toward Solar Energy Conversion | Akimitsu NARITA |
Assistant Professor, Organic and Carbon Nanomaterials Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University |
Bernd SMARSLY | Professor, Justus Liebig University Giessen |
| Development of magnetic refrigeration materials for hydrogen liquefaction using combinatorial research approach | Hossein SEPEHRI AMIN |
Principal Researcher, Research Center for Magnetic and Spintronic Materials, National Institute for Materials Science |
Konstantin SKOKOV | Senior Researcher, Technical University of Darmstadt |
FY2018
| Title of Project | PI（Japan） | Affiliation（Japan） | PI（Germany） | Affiliation（Germany） |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biomass burning organic aerosol in Europe and Asia: Molecular composition and impact on air quality | Kimitaka KAWAMURA |
Professor, Chubu University |
Hartmut HEERMANN |
Professor, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research |
| Wave coupling processes of the middle and upper atmosphere: Interannual and long-term variability (VACILT) | Huixin LIU |
Associate Professor, Kyushu University |
Christoph JACOBI |
Professor, Institute for Meteorology, University of Leipzig |
| Development, Analysis, and Implementation of Computationally Efficient Models for Resolving CEllular and COMmunity Composition of Plankton (CECOMP) | Lan Smith SHERWOOD |
Senior Scientist, Japan Agency for Marine-earth Science and Technology |
Onur KERIMOGLU |
Postdoctoral Researcher, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht |
| Topotactic transformation of naturally occurring layer silicates into porous framework silicates | Atsushi SHIMOJIMA |
Professor, Waseda University |
Bernd MARLER |
Senior Lecturer, Institute for Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics, Ruhr-University Bochum |
| HIGHER: High-temperature and high-pressure rheology of rock fractures: impacts on hydrothermal fluids circulation in magmatic systems | Noriaki WATANABE |
Associate Professor, Tohoku University |
Francesco PARISIO |
Post-doctoral Researcher, Institute of Geotechnical Engineering, Freiberg University of Mining and Technology |
| Testing Isotopologues as Diabatic Heating Proxy for Atmospheric Data Analyses | Kei YOSHIMURA |
Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo |
Matthias SCHNEIDER |
Group Head of Remote Sensing of Water Isotopoloques, Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
| Chemical and structural variations of bivalve shells at the micrometer scale - taking sclerochronology to the next level | Kotaro SHIRAI |
Assistant Professor, The University of Tokyo |
Bernd R. SCHOENE |
Professor, Institute of Geosciences, University of Mainz |
| Combing Paleontology and Developmental Biology to Understand Skull Evolution in Turtles | Daisuke KOYABU |
Associate Professor, Musashino Art University |
Ingmar WERNEBURG |
Curator of Paleontology, Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment Tübingen |
| Short-term variability of the equatorial ionosphere and its association with planetary-scale waves | Yasunobu MIYOSHI |
Associate Professor, Kyushu University |
Yosuke YAMAZAKI |
Researcher, Geophysics, GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences |
FY2022
| Title of Project | PI（Japan） | Affiliation（Japan） | PI（Switzerland） | Affiliation（Switzerland） |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interpretable Condition Monitoring for Complex Engineering System | Takehisa YAIRI | Professor, The University of Tokyo |
Alexandros KALOUSIS | Professor, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland |
| Adaptive Tensegrity Robots for Mitigation of Infrastructure Failure in Disaster Scenarios | Hiroyuki NABAE | Assistant Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
Dario FLOREANO | Professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne |
| Diagnosing air pollution by organic aerosol: toward air quality management in the emerging era of organic haze | Michihiro MOCHIDA | Professor, Nagoya University |
Satoshi TAKAHAMA | Senior Scientist, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) |
| Memristive Metasurface Crossbar for Energy Efficient Neuromorphic Computing (MetaCross) | Tomoaki YAMADA | Professor, Nagoya University |
Alexandros EMBORAS | Lecturer (tenured), ETH Zurich |
| High Temperature Superconductive Tapes for Undulators | Ryota KINJO | Program-Specific Associate Professor, Kyoto University |
Marco CALVI | Senior Scientist, Paul Scherrer Institute |
| Development of operando elemental and chemical states analysis for batteries by muonic X-rays | Akira SATO | Assistant Professor, Osaka University |
Thomas PROKSCHA | Head of Laboratory for Muon Spin Spectroscopy, Paul Scherrer Institute |
| The contribution of blood-brain barrier dysfunction to neurological disorders | Hideaki NISHIHARA | Assistant Professor, Yamaguchi University |
Britta ENGELHARDT | Director, Professor, University of Bern |
| Resilient water management in tectonically active region | Yuji SANO | Specially Appointed Professor, Kochi University |
Oliver S SCHILLING | Assistant Professor, University of Basel |
| Developing an integrated framework for transitioning to a safe circular plastic economy: a use case study of Japan (CIRPLUS) | Natsuko KAJIWARA | Chief senior researcher, National Institute for Environmental Studies |
Bernd NOWACK | Distinguished Senior Researcher, Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology |
| Hyperpolarization by UV-induced radicals: developing and characterizing their application in vivo to investigate Alzheimer's Disease | Yuhei TAKADO | Principal Researcher, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology |
Mor Miri MISHKOVSKY | Research Scientist, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne |
FY2019
| Title of Project | PI（Japan） | Affiliation（Japan） | PI（Switzerland） | Affiliation（Switzerland） |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jamming and force chains - from biological tissues to granular materials and back | Shuji ISHIHARA |
Project Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo |
Christof M. AEGERTER |
Professor, University of Zurich |
| SENSOR – SENsible SOftware Refactoring | Yasutaka KAMEI |
Associate Professor, Kyushu University |
Bavota GABRIELE |
Assistant Professor, Universita della Sizzera italiana (University of Lugano) |
| High elevation precipitation in High Mountain Asia | Koji FUJITA |
Professor, Nagoya University |
Francesca PELLICCIOTTI |
Group Leader, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich |
| Scale-dependent active microrheology of soft materials by studying driven motion of microbeads | Amy SHEN |
Professor, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University |
Frank SCHEFFOLD |
Professor, University of Fribourg |
| Unitized reversible fuel cells (URFC) using advanced anionic membranes and bi-functional catalysts | Makoto UCHIDA |
Professor, University of Yamanashi |
Thomas J. SCHMIDT |
Head of Research Division Energy & Environment, Paul Scherrer Institut |
| Stretchable ElectroHydroDynamics | Shingo MAEDA |
Associate Professor, Shibaura Institute of Technology |
Herbert SHEA |
Full Professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne |
| Behavior of sulfur in biomass under hydrothermal conditions: removal strategies for catalytic processes | Yukihiko MATSUMURA |
Professor, Hiroshima University |
Frederic VOGEL |
Professor for Renewable Energies, Paul Scherrer Institut |
| Porphyrin-based imaging probe for the detection of oncogene promoter quadruplex DNA | Hisao MASAI |
Director, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science |
Yoko YAMAKOSHI |
Professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) |
FY2016
| Title of Project | PI（Japan） | Affiliation（Japan） | PI（Switzerland） | Affiliation（Switzerland） |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phonetics Phonology and New Orthographies: Helping Native Language Communities in the Himalayas (PhoPhoNo) | Seunghun LEE |
Associate Professor, International Christian University |
George VAN DRIEM |
Professor, University of Bern |
| Exploring cell competition between normal and transformed epithelial cells as a novel cancer preventive mechanism | Yasuyuki FUJITA |
Professor, Hokkaido University |
Joerg HUELSKEN |
Associate Professor, Swiss Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), ISREC |
| Transcriptional control and Epigenetic Mechanisms of Thymic Epithelial Cell Development and Function | Yosuke TAKAHAMA |
Professor, Tokushima University |
Georg Andreas HOLLANDER |
Professor, University of Basel |
| Tracing cultural diversity for the decoding of facial expressions of emotion: From visual intake to neural signatures | Katsumi WATANABE |
Professor, Waseda University |
Roberto CALDARA |
Professor, University of Fribourg |
*Note that the above list is compiled based on the information obtained from Japanese PIs and Counterpart PIs at the time of adoption.