Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

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FY 2022

FY 2019

FY 2016

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.