Achievements(Awards)

FY2024

FY2024 The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology(Awards for Science and Technology)
"Creation of the theory of hypermaterials and research on innovative metal alloys"
Ryuji Tamura (A01)
9/4/2024
List of Awards for Science and Technology winners (PDF)
Tokyo University of Science's HP

FY2023

Person of Merit of Tokyo, Technology promotion meritorious service
"Developing innovative metal materials and creating new science"
Ryuji Tamura (A01)
02/10/2023
2023 Tokyo Merit Award Ceremony List of Meritorious Contributors (PDF)
Tokyo University of Science's HP
JPS 78th Annual Meeting, Student Presentation Award of the Physical Society of Japan (division 9)
"Creation and structural evaluation of ultrathin films with X-Ti-O (X=Ce,Yb) quasicrystal related structures on Pt(111) substrates"
Xu Li (A01 Publicly Offered Research Project)
17/9/2023
「ICCOCM Young Scientist Award」
"Adsorption structures of Pentacene on the fivefold surface of the Tsai-type Ag-In-Yb quasicrystal"
Masanori Sato (A03)
27/9/2023
「ICCOCM Young Scientist Award」
"A phase identification technique using deep learning"
Kanta Hiroki (A01)
27/9/2023
「17th Physical Property Science Cross-disciplinary study group Best Young Encouragement Award」
"Supercurrent Distribution on Superconducting Quasicrystals"
Takumi Fukushima (A03, A04)
24/11/2023
Annual meeting of the Japan Society of Vacuum and Science 2023 Lecture Encouragement Award
"Growth of oxide quasicrystal-related structures of ultrathin Ce-Ti-O films on Pt(111)"
Xu Li (A01 Publicly Offered Research Project)
2/12/2023
The 4th TSAI An-pang award 【Young Researcher award】
"Defect engineering on semiconducting approximant reach zT>0.4"
Yutaka Iwasaki (A01)
20/12/2023
The 4th TSAI An-pang award 【Student award】
"Multifractality and hyperuniformity in disordered quasicrystalline Bose-Hubbard models"
Masahiro Hori (A04)
20/12/2023
The 4th TSAI An-pang award 【Student award】
"Aperiodic approximants bridging quasicrystals and incommensurate modulated structures"
Toranosuke Matsubara (A04)
20/12/2023
「18th Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan, 2024」
"Experimental study on nonequilibrium phase transitions using superconducting vortices"
Shun Maegochi (Publicly Offered Research Project A04 (The 1st period))
18-21/3/2024
「2024 Seiichi Tejima Research Award (Doctoral Dissertation Award)」
"Nonequilibrium phase transitions in driven vortex matter: the reversible-irreversible transition, dynamical ordering, and Kibble-Zurek mechanism"
Shun Maegochi Publicly Offered Research Project A04 (The 1st period))
19/3/2024
「Springer Theses Award」
"Nonequilibrium phase transitions in driven vortex matter: the reversible-irreversible transition, dynamical ordering, and Kibble-Zurek mechanism"
Shun Maegochi (Publicly Offered Research Project A04 (The 1st period))
2023
The Thermoelectric Society of Japan 2023 Society Award
"Contributing to the search for semiconductor quasicrystals as candidates for high-performance thermoelectric materials, research to improve thermoelectric performance of intermetallic compounds, etc., and the development of the Thermoelectric Society of Japan"
Kaoru Kimura (A01)
25/09/2023

FY2022

70th The Japan Institute of Metals and Materials The Best Paper Award [Physical Characteristics Category]
"Classical and Quantum Magnetic Ground States on an Icosahedral Cluster"
Shintaro Suzuki (A01), Ryuji Tamura (A01), Takanori Sugimoto (A04)
21/09/2022
70th The Japan Institute of Metals and Materials The Best Paper Award [Material Chemistry Category]
"A Unified Geometrical Framework for Face-Centered Icosahedral Approximants in Al-Pd-TM (TM = Transition Metal) Systems"
Nobuhisa Fujita (A02), Makoto Ogashiwa
21/09/2022
2nd The Japan Institute of Metals and Materials The Best Paper Award for Budding Author [Materials Transactions Category]
"Possibility of Semiconducting Electronic Structure on Al-Pd-Co 1/1 Cubic Quasicrystalline Approximant"
Yutaka Iwasaki (A01), Tomoyuki Kashimura, Koichi Kitahara, Kaoru Kimura (A01)
21/09/2022
4th(2022) The Materials and Devices Joint Research Award
"Low-temperature magnetic ground state search for Tsai-type approximate crystals"
[Principal Investigator] Shintaro Suzuki (A01)
[Joint research participants] Taku J Sato, Kazuhiro Nawa(A04), Naoya Miyao, Ryuji Tamura(A01), Azusa Motouri 08/08/2022
The 15th Best Paper Award, The Thermoelectric Society of Japan
"Interband Contribution to Thermoelectric Properties of Al-Cu-Ir Quasicrystalline Approximant"
K. Kitahara and K. Kimura (A01)
10/08/2022
JPS 2022 Autumn Meeting, Student Presentation Award of the Physical Society of Japan (division 6)
"Synthesis and electronic properties of Au-SM-La(SM=Al, Ga) hypermaterials"
Shunsuke Ogasahara　(A01)
08/10/2022
Tokyo University of Science's HP
The 16th Physical Property Science Cross-disciplinary study group (joint study group), the Young Encouragement Award
"Synthesis and superconductivity of Ta-Te two dimensional van der Waals quasicrystal"
Kotaro Hamano　(A04)
27/11/2022
ALC’22 Excellent Presentation Award
"Growth of ultra-thin quasicrystal-like Ce-Ti-O structure on Pt(111)"
Xu Li(A01)
21/10/2022
The 39th (2022) Inoue Research Encouragement Award
"Research on the search for semiconductor quasicrystals and approximate crystals"
Yutaka Iwasaki(A01)
15/12/2022
JPS 2022 Autumn Meeting, Student Presentation Award of the Physical Society of Japan (division 6)
"Scaling analysis for the transverse depinning transition"
Shun Maegochi(A04)
8/10/2022
the 4th (2023) Fumiko Yonezawa Memorial Award
"Theoretical study of strongly correlated many-body effects in systems with singular electronic structures"
(Certificate) (Awards ceremony) (Group photo)
Nayua Takemori(A03)
15/02/2023
The 3rd TSAI An-pang award
"Electronic state of ferromagnetic Au-Al-Gd quasicrystalline approximant probed by core-level and valence-band photoemission spectroscopy"
Goro Nozue　(A04)
1/3/2023
the 17th (2023) Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan (division 6)
"Ferromagnetsim and re-entrant spin-glass transition in quasicrystal approximants Au-SM-Gd (SM= Si, Ge)"
Takanobu Hiroto(A02)
26/10/2022
Funai Information Technology Award
"Symmetry control and quantum rectification in nanomaterials"
Toshiya Ideue (A01)
22/2/2023

FY2021

MEXT Young Scientists' Prize (2021)
"Quantum control of flow in noncentrosymmetric materials"
Toshiya Ideue　(A01)
06/04/2021
The MSSJ Prize for Young Researcher (Suezawa Prize)
"Corrosion Behavior of Sintered YSZ with Volcanic Ash for Thermal Barrier Coatings"
Yoshitaka Matsushita　(A02)
21/05/2021
Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan
"Theoretical study on electron correlation and superconducting state peculiar to quasi-periodic system"
Nayuta Takemori　(A03)
October/2021
JPS 2021 Autumn Meeting, Student Presentation Award of the Physical Society of Japan (division 6)
"Transverse mode-locking resonance in a superconducting vortex system"
Shun Maegochi　(A04)
09/10/2021
JPS 2021 Autumn Meeting, Student Presentation Award of the Physical Society of Japan (division 6)
"Topological Superconductivity in two-dimensional Quasicrystals"
Masahiro Hori　(A04)
09/10/2021
ISS Encouragement Award
"Observation of two reversible regimes in cyclically sheared vortices"
Shun Maegochi　(A04)
01/12/2021
The 2nd TSAI An-pang award
"Magnetic orders in Tsai-type approximants"
Takanori Sugimoto　(A04)
23/02/2022
American Physical Society Outstanding Referees 2022
to recognize scientists who have been exceptionally helpful in assessing manuscripts for publication in the APS journals Natsuhiko Yoshinaga (A04)
02/03/2022
JPS 77th Annual Meeting, Student Presentation Award of the Physical Society of Japan (division 6)
"Transverse depinning transition in a superconducting vortex system "
Shun Maegochi　(A04)
15/03/2022
Reiwa 3rd Year Graduate School Deans Award of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Academic Division (Doctoral Program)
"Search for Semiconducting Quasicrystals and their Approximant Crystals"
Yutaka Iwasaki　(A01)
31/03/2022

FY2020

"Mission Innovation Champions Program"
The award system for mission innovation, an international initiative to promote R&D investment in the clean energy field launched at COP21
Yoshiki Takagiwa　(A04)
12/06/2020
41th Honda Memorial Young Reseacher Award
"Research on small temperature difference power generation technology that supports IoT society"
Yoshiki Takagiwa　(A04)
6/11/2020
The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: Outstanding Support for Research Award
"For material development and human resource development support using X-ray diffraction method Contribution"
Yoshitaka Matsushita　(A02)
07/04/2020
17th Japan Thermoelectric Society Academic Lecture, Excellent Presentation Award
"Interband Contribution to Thermoelectric Properties of Al–Cu–Ir Quasicrystalline Approximant"
Koichi Kitahara　(A01)
30/09/2020
17th Japan Thermoelectric Society Academic Lecture, Excellent Poster Award
"Effect of Cu doping on Thermoelectric properties of Al-Si-Ru semiconducting quasicrystalline approximant"
Yutaka Iwasaki　(A01)
30/09/2020
Student Excellent Presentation Award at 2020 Autumn Meeting of the Physical Society of Japan
"Electronic States Analysis II of Al-Pd-Co Quasicrystalline 1/1 Approximant"
Yutaka Iwasaki　(A01)
19/10/2020
Physical Property Science Cross-disciplinary study group (joint study group), Young Scientist Award
"Fabrication of Al-Si-Ru system approximate crystal semiconductor by band engineering"
Yutaka Iwasaki　(A01)
05/12/2020
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NISTEP Selection 2020 (The Researchers with Nice Step)
"Constract of Starrydata, Big Database of Material Properties, by collecting previous experimental data from research papers -Contribution to Materials Informatics getting Data Science in Materials Science-"
Yukari Katsura　(A03)
15/12/2020
The 5th Asian Conference on Thermoelectrics (ACT5) & The 6th Southeast Asia Conference on Thermoelectrics (SACT6) (tts.or.th) , The Best Oral Presentation
"Interband Contribution to Thermoelectric Properties of Al–Cu–Ir Quasicrystalline Approximant"
Koichi Kitahara　(A01)
17/12/2020
The 5th Asian Conference on Thermoelectrics (ACT5) & The 6th Southeast Asia Conference on Thermoelectrics (SACT6) (tts.or.th) , The Best Oral Presentation
"Effect of Cu doping on Thermoelectric properties of Al-Si-Ru semiconducting quasicrystalline approximant"
Yutaka Iwasaki　(A01)
17/12/2020
The 1st TSAI An-Pang Award
"Theoretical study of weak-coupling quasiperiodic superconductors"
Nayuta Takemori　(A03)
05/03/2021
The 26th Outstanding Paper Award of the Physical Society of Japan
"Superconductivity of Au-Ge-Yb Approximants with Tsai-type Clusters"
Kazuhiko Deguchi　(A04)
23/01/2021
2020 "Precious Metal Research Grant" Silver Award
"Precious metal hypermaterials"（honorable certificate）
Ryuji Tamura　(A01)
31/03/2021

FY2019

Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan, 2020
"Atomic structures of Tsai-type icosahedral quasicrystals"
Tsunetomo Yamada　(A01)
05/11/2019
Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan, 2020
"Study on electronic states of quasicrystals and related materials"
Koichi Kitahara　(A01)
05/11/2019
16th Japan Thermoelectric Society Academic Lecture, Excellent Presentation Award
"Fabrication of Al-Si-Ru system approximate crystal semiconductor by band engineering"
Yuki Iwasaki　(A01)
04/09/2019
The 12th Best Paper Award, The Thermoelectric Society of Japan
"Roles of Carrier Doping, Band Gap and Electron Relaxation Time in the Bolzmann Transport Calculations of a Semiconductor’s Thermoelectric Properties"
Y. Katsura, H. Takagi, and K. Kimura　(A03, A01)
02/09/2019
"Best Progress Award for Young Scientists" of Thermoelectric Society of Japan
"Constraction of Transdiciprinaly Research for Thermoelectric Materials using experiment, first principle calculation and data science"
Yukari Katsura　(A03)
02/09/2019
"32nd European Crystallographic Meeting (ECM32) The Austrian Academy of Science Poster prize
"The real space refinement of the icosahedral quasicrystal"
Ireneusz Buganski　(A02)
23/08/2019
Most Cited Articles in 2018 from Vol. 86 (2017), J. Phys. Soc. Jpn.
"Unusual Magnetic State with Dual Magnetic Excitations in the Single Crystal of S = 1/2 Kagome Lattice Antiferromagnet CaCu3(OH)6Cl2・0.6H2O "
Yoshitaka Matsushita　(A02)
21/05/2019
Most Cited Articles in 2018 from Vol. 86 (2017), J. Phys. Soc. Jpn.
"Structural, Magnetic, and Superconducting Properties of Caged Compounds ROs2Zn20 (R = La, Ce, Pr, and Nd) "
Yoshitaka Matsushita　(A02)
21/05/2019