| JAPANESE |
The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research is organized as a center to coordinate the Hakubi Project in collaboration with Departments, Institutes, and Research Centers in Kyoto University. The Steering Committee consisting of selected vice presidents, deans, directors and professors is a decision making body dealing with important issues related to the Center management. The Center’s director and program managers oversee the Center’s activities with administrative support from the Research Promotion Department of the Kyoto University Central Office. The call for applications is open and international. Hakubi researchers are selected based on a comprehensive evaluation of past research, research proposal, as well as the individual’s prospects for assuming a position of leadership in the next generation. The Expert Committee, organized by Kyoto University professors selected in accordance with their respective fields of studies, screen the application documents (the first screening). The Hakuraku Council, consisting of influential internal/ external intellectuals, interviews the candidates selected by the Expert Committee (the second screening). Finally, following the screening by the Hakuraku Council, the Steering Committee determines appointed researchers each year.
Hakubi researchers are employed by Kyoto University as program-specific faculty members (associate professor or assistant professor) and can be engaged in conducting research for five years at their host institution (Department, Institute or Research Center) according to his/her field of studies. The Center supports the researchers in various ways so that they can pursue their research activities smoothly in collaboration with host institutions and professors.
Director/Program Manager | Yoshinobu TAKAKURA (Professor Emeritus) |
Program Manager (C.P.) | Takahiro ITO (Professor, Institute for Life and Medical Sciences) |
Program Manager (C.P.) | Yasuko FUNABIKI (Professor, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies) |
Program Manager (C.P.) | Toru ONOZAWA (Professor, Graduate School of Letters) |
Special Adviser | Masao MITSUYAMA (Professor Emeritus) |
*(C.P.: Concurrent post)