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Informal appointment of the 14th batch Hakubi researchers
【Global Type】
To foster prospective early career researchers, Kyoto University established the Kyoto University "Hakubi Project" to Foster and Support Early career Researchers in 2009 and has accepted applications. Until now, for the 14th batch, 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 20 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 December, 2023)
(following Japanese alphabetical order)
| Name | Research Topic | Position |
|---|---|---|
| EBIHARA Shiho | A Descriptive and Geolinguistic Study on the Multi-layered Pastoral Culture in the Tibeto-Himalayan Region | Assistant Professor |
| OTANI Yuka | Research on the Mahayana practice of precepts and the thought thereof in Medieval Japanese Buddhism | Associate Professor |
| OPHINNI Youdiil | Vulnerable nexus in the Anthropocene: a One Health study of viruses at Indonesia's desecrated nature-human interface | Assistant Professor |
| KINOSHITA Miki | Systematic study of literature by the Iranian diaspora | Assistant Professor |
| GOTO Akihiro | Understanding and applying long-term memory storage mechanisms | Associate Professor |
| SAKAMOTO Tatsuya | Global warming and species alternation in small pelagic fish: insights from fossil analysis | Assistant Professor |
| SHIMODA Asako | Development on extracellular vesicle separation method by glycan profile analysis and its applications for therapy and diagnosis | Assistant Professor |
| SHARMA POKHAREL Sanjeeta | Reconstructing paleoecology of extinct Japanese elephant species (proboscideans) through fossil-based isotopic and hormonal studies | Assistant Professor |
| TAKEDA Hiroki | Testing theories of gravity in extreme environments through polarization modes of gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences | Assistant Professor |
| NAMEKATA Kosuke | New Frontiers in Heliospheric Evolution: Comprehensive Investigation of Transients on Young Sun-Like Stars to Reveal the Ancient Solar-Earth Climate | Assistant Professor |
| HAYAKAWA Ryu | Proposal of quantum topological machine learning and analysis of its quantum computational complexity | Assistant Professor |
| VIERTHALER Patrick | Contested Memories of Perpetration and Collaboration in Former "Cold War Frontlines": A Global History of Post-Cold War Mnemonic Disputes | Assistant Professor |
| FEDOROVA Anastasia | Japanese Film and Democracy in the 1950s | Associate Professor |
| PSTRAGOWSKI Piotr | Shapes and arithmetic - Prismatic cohomology | Associate Professor |
| HONGO Shun | Sustainable hunting systems for rainforest wildlife through co-production between local people and scientists | Junior Associate Professors |
| MCNEILL Lucy Olivia | Generational theoretical updates to pre-supernova mass loss in the era of high resolution observations and all-sky surveys | Assistant Professor |
| MINOWA Yosuke | Photonics Encounters Quantum Hydrodynamics | Associate Professor |
| MURATA Minami | Socrates, the Governing Philosopher: Philosophical Radicals on Colonialism and the Reception of Ancient Greece in the Nineteenth-Century Britain | Assistant Professor |
| YAMADA Shintaro | Identifying carcinogenesis-related transcriptional regulatory elements (enhancers) comprehensively and elucidating the mechanism in hormone responsive oncogene overexpression and tumor formation in DNA repair deficient cancer models for understanding cancer development fundamentally | Assistant Professor |
| YOSHINO Tatsuhiko | Development of ultra-reactive catalysts for C-H activation and highly challenging transformation reactions | Associate Professor |
*Reprinted from proposal.
Status of Application and Informal Appointment (As of December, 2023)
| Number of Applicants | Number of Informal Appointment | Competitive Ratio |
| 326 people | 20 people | 16.3 times |
| Number of Applicants | Number of Informal Appointment | ||
| Male/Female/Not to respond | 244：79：3 | 12：8：0 | |
| Associate Professor/Junior Associate Professor/Assistant Professor | 84：31：211 | 6：1：13 | |
| Average age | Associate Prof. | 40.8 | 38.7 |
| Junior Associate Prof. | 38.2 | 37.0 | |
| Assistant Prof. | 34.8 | 33.2 | |
