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Recruit
｜ JAPANESE ｜
Informal appointment for Hakubi researchers
【Global Type】
To foster prospective young researchers, Kyoto University established the Kyoto University "Hakubi Project" to Foster and Support Young Researchers in 2009 and has accepted applications. Until now, strict examination has been held such as applicant screening by the expert committee of the Hakubi Center for Advanced Research and interview by the Hakuraku Council. As the results of deliberations by the Steering Committee of the Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University decided informally 15 researchers who will be hired in the Kyoto University Hakubi Center for Advanced Research.
List of prospective Hakubi Researchers【Global Type】in the Kyoto University Hakubi Center for Advanced Research (As of August, 2021)
(following Japanese alphabetical order)
| Name | Research Topic | Position | Current Affiliation/Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ryota AOYAGI | Country-scale mapping of tropical forest recovery after disturbances: Patterns and processes | Assistant Professor | JSPS Research Fellow (PD), Forestry and Forest Product Research Institute |
| Shunsuke ADACHI | Dark matter experiment with millimeter waves - Probing unexplored mass region | Assistant Professor | Project Resercher, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo |
| Toshiya ANDO | Demonstration of evolutionary processes in multicellular organisms through the development of large-scale chromosomal manipulation techniques | Associate Professor | Assistant Professor, National Institute for Basic Biology, National Institutes of Natural Sciences |
| Maho IUCHI | Elucidation of the foundations of Tibetan cultural area: On medieval Tibet and the second diffusion of Buddhism in Tibet | Associate Professor | JSPS Research Fellow (RPD), Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University |
| Ikue OTANI | Han-Xiongnu interaction and the society of Xiongnu: Consideration based on Archaeological evidence | Assistant Professor | Research fellow, National Museum of Ethnology |
| Hitomi OMATA RAPPO | The Birth of the Japanese Saints and Race: A Survey of the Image of Japan from the Modern to Contemporary European Mindset | Associate Professor | JSPS Research Fellow (PD), Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University |
| Nobuyuki KAKIUCHI | Research on clonal evolution in the human body aiming to overcome chronic diseases. | Associate Professor | Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University |
| Chao-jung CHING | Boom of writing and rise of "Huns" in Inner Asia | Associate Professor | Maître de conférence associée, Collège de France |
| Shunsuke SHIMOBAYASHI | Opto-regulation of transcriptional landscape by biomolcelar condensates | Associate Professor | JSPS Postdoctral fellow, Princeton University |
| Kazuyuki SUGIMURA | Simulating first galaxy formation: unified picture from cosmological structures to stars and black holes | Assistant Professor | Project Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University |
| Hirokazu TAHARA | Optoelectronic energy recycling and quantum cooperative effects in semiconductor nanostructures | Associate Professor | Assistant Professor, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University |
| Han BAO | Verifiable Machine Learning | Assistant Professor | Ph.D., Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo |
| Sayaka TOJIMA | Establishment of "Shippology", a biological and cultural-anthropological approach towards tail loss | Assistant Professor | Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University |
| Hideki NAKAMURA | Multi-disciplinary invesitigation into novel roles of dynamic protein assembly in cell metabolism | Associate Professor | Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University |
| Toru MATSUMOTO | Understanding evolution of solids in space environments by studying soil samples from the asteroid Ryugu and Itokawa. | Assistant Professor | Program-Specific Researcher, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University |
Status of Application and Informal Appointment (As of August, 2021)
| Number of Applicants | Number of Informal Appointment | Competitive Ratio |
| 303 people | 15 people | 20.2 times |
| Number of Applicants |
Ratio | Number of Informal Appointment |
Ratio | |
| Humanities/ Science |
111：192 | 36.6%：63.4% | 5：10 | 33.3%：66.7% |
| On-campus/ Off-campus |
92：211 | 30.4%：69.6% | 6：9 | 40.0%：60.0% |
| Domestic / Overseas |
226：77 | 74.6%：25.4% | 13：2 | 86.7%：13.3% |
| Associate Professor/ Assistant Professor |
127：176 | 41.9%：58.1% | 8：7 | 53.3%：46.7% |
| Average age （ Associate Prof. ) （ Assistant Prof. ） |
40.9 | － | 38.4 | － |
| 35.1 | － | 33.1 | － |
*Reprinted from proposal.
