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Kumamoto University, one of Japan's leading research
universities, promotes world-leading research. The International
Research Organization for Advanced Science and Technology(IROAST) was established in April 2016 with the aim ofstrengthening the University's international research capabilities
in the fields of science and engineering.
IROAST has two major missions: one is to foster talented

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and internationally active young researchers who will beleading the future of the University; the other is to promoteinternational collaborative research with overseas top-class

02 Message from Director, International Institutefor Advanced Science and Technology
03 Overview

young researchers, we operate a tenure-track system and send
them to overseas universities and research institutions for long
periods of time in order to build an international network. As

04 Three Missions

for international joint research, we invite leading researchers

05 Researchers

from overseas universities and research institutes as distinguished professors to promote

06 Visiting Professors/
Visiting Associate Professors

efforts have produced excellent results.

collaborative research and to provide research guidance for graduate students. These
The first phase of IROAST was completed in March 2022, and the second phase began in

08 Research Topics

April of the same year. In the second phase, we aim to become an international co-creation

10 Research Clusters

research center that produces world-class innovations for realizing a well-being focused

12 All about IROAST
13 Collaborating Universities,
Research Institutes, etc.
14 Symposia & Seminars
15 Salons and Workshop
Research Internship Program

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universities and research institutions. For the development ofsociety, based on experience obtained in the first phase. To this end, we would like to further
promote interdisciplinary fusion research that transcends departmental boundaries, not only
within the framework of science and engineering, but also by collaborating with medical andpharmaceutical sciences and social and cultural sciences.
This brochure summarizes previous activities of IROAST. If you are interested in
our activities and collaborative research, please contact us. We look forward to newpartnerships.
Kazuki TAKASHIMA, Director, IROAST

Overview

We had designated the four areas listed below as the priority researchareas for Phase 1, a period of six years beginning from 2016. Our goals
during this phase were to enhance our international competitiveness interms of research by developing distinctive, leading-edge research projects,
and to foster creative young researchers to serve as the driving force forinternational research based on our internationally superior researchfoundation.

Phase
1

2016 ー 2021

During Phase 2, beginning from 2022, we further develop and enhance
our projects as an international research hub for the natural sciences, andengage in international research activities focused on the science andtechnology needed to build a society that provides safety, security, andwell-being, with the goal of realizing Society 5.0, which will support thenext generation of natural sciences.

Phase
2
Nano Material Science
Pulse power science andadvanced metal materials.
Graphene oxide non-sheets,hydrogen production catalysts,
and innovative materials under
extreme conditions, etc.

2022 ーGreen Energy

Environmental
Science
Environmental assessment,
analysis of climate change,
protection of undergroundwater and shallow sea
areas, etc.

Development andutilization of renewableenergy resources,
biomass application,etc.

Human-friendly
Technologies
Biotechnology &Healthcare Technology
Environment-friendly
Technology
Environmental Bioscience

Science andTechnology for Building a
Well-being Society

Advanced Materials
Data Science, AI

Strengthening
Resilience
Advanced Green Bio
Interdisciplinary researchareas. e.g. drug delivery systems,
environment-friendly pesticides,
medical diagnosis with
X-ray CT and IT,
etc.

Safe and Secure
Society
Disaster Prevention
and Mitigation

International Advidsory Board (IAB): Our IAB is composed of highly-insightful,broadly-experienced experts who are well-versed in academic and research affairs both
domestically and internationally. The board conducts hearings on the management andadministration of IROAST and provides advice to aid the organization in becoming aninternationally recognized research institution.

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Three Missions

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The cultivation of talented young
researchers to lead the future

The establishment of strong international
joint research networks and promotion ofinternational joint research

The development of leading, cutting-edge
research projects through interdisciplinary
integration

Under our tenure-track system, we recognize
and foster talented young researchers through aninternational open call for participants. During
the tenure-track period, participants serve as
Principal Investigators (PI) by personally leadinginternational joint research projects, establish
international joint research networks with overseas
researchers and researchers in different fields, andenhance their skills in research and educational
activities by participating in joint research projects
with postdoctoral researchers and providing
research guidance to graduate students. We are also
working to foster young researchers with a highlevel of international competence via our Programfor Young Faculty Members for International Joint
Research, through which we send young researchers
overseas, as well as by aiding participants in
submitting academic papers in English and offeringinternship programs to provide research guidance
to graduate students and young
researchers from overseas.

In collaboration with research organizations in
the natural sciences at the university, we promoteinternational joint research with world-classuniversities and research institutions. We hire
the world’s leading researchers as distinguishedprofessors, and grant internationally renowned
researchers the title of visiting professor or visiting
associate professor, and we contribute to thepromotion and development of the university’s
research activities from an international perspectiveby engaging in joint research, holding internationalseminars, and providing intensive lectures forgraduate students. In addition, with the aim ofestablishing academic, cutting-edge international
joint research networks, we also promote joint
research by aiding IROAST tenure-track faculty
members, other Kumamoto University faculty
members, distinguished professors and visiting
professors in forming research units.

Research units led by young researchers are
attracting the attention of researchers in otherfields due to research into the developmentof wearable sensors for monitoring cardiac
functions as well as the multifaceted applicationof imagery in collaboration with universities andmedical institutions in Singapore. In addition, in
collaboration with researchers from Australia andSouth Korea, we advanced research into functional
nano materials for efficient treatment of tumors,and published the co-authored findings in top-levelinternational journals. Furthermore, joint research
conducted by researchers affiliated with bothorganizations is now underway, including holding
joint seminars with the International ResearchCenter for Medical Sciences (IRCMS). We havealso begun collaborations with the humanities andsocial sciences.

Researchers (as of January 1, 2023)
Director

Vice Director

Postdoctoral Researchers

Dr. Kazuki TAKASHIMA

Dr. Kei TODA

Dr. Jonas Karl N. AGUTAYA

Dr. Prafulla Bahadur MALLAInternational Research Organization
for Advanced Science and Technology

Professor,
Faculty of Advanced Scienceand Technology

International Research Organization
for Advanced Science and Technology

International Research Organization
for Advanced Science and Technology

Dr. Reetu Rani

Distinguished Professors
Dr. U Rajendra ACHARYA

Dr. Dmitri Aleks MOLODOV

Senior faculty member,
Ngee Ann Polytechnic,
Singapore

Professor,
Institute of Physical Metallurgy
and Metal Physics,
RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Dr. László PUSZTAIDr. Yufeng ZHENG

Scientific Advisor,
Wigner Research Centre for Physics,
Hungary

Professor,
Department of Materials Science andEngineering,College of Engineering,
Peking University, China

Tenure-track Associate Professors
Dr. Gaochuang CAI

Dr. Masahiko FURUTANIInternational Research Organization
for Advanced Science and Technology

International Research Organization
for Advanced Science and Technology

Dr. Hiroki MATSUO

Dr. Zhongyue ZHANGInternational Research Organization
for Advanced Science and Technology

International Research Organization
for Advanced Science and Technology

International Research Organization
for Advanced Science and Technology

International Joint Research Faculty Members
Dr. Takumi HIGAKIDr. Takahiro HOSONO

Professor,
Faculty of Advanced Science andTechnology

Professor,
Faculty of Advanced Science andTechnology

Dr. Kei ISHIDA

Dr. Makiko KOBAYASHI

Associate Professor,
Center for Water Cycle, Marine
Environment and Disaster Management

Professor,
Faculty of Advanced Science andTechnology

Dr. Ruda LEE

Dr. Yuta NAKASHIMA

Associate Professor,
Institute of Industrial Nanomaterials(IINa)

Associate Professor,
Faculty of Advanced Science andTechnology

Dr. Shin-Ichi OHIRA

Dr. Atsushi SAINOKIProfessor,
Faculty of Advanced Science andTechnology

Associate Professor,
Faculty of Advanced Science andTechnology

Dr. Mitsuru SASAKI

Dr. Keitaro TAKAHASHI

Associate Professor,
Institute of Industrial Nanomaterials(IINa)

Professor,
Faculty of Advanced Science andTechnology

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Visiting Professors / Visiting Associate Professors (as of January 1, 2023)
Visiting Professors
1

Dr. José E. ANDRADE
Professor
California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA

10 Dr. Patrice DELMAS

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science,
The University of Auckland, New Zealand
11 Dr. Martin DIENWIEBEL

2

Dr. Suttichai ASSABUMRUNGRATProfessor
Center of Excellence in Catalysis and Catalytic Reaction
Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty ofEngineering, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

3

Dr. Josep-Lluís BARONA-VILAR
Professor
Institute of History of Medicine andScience López Piñero (IHMC),
University of Valencia, Spain

4

Dr. Jorge Norberto BELTRAMINIProfessor
Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia

5

Dr. Pouyan BOUKANY
Associate Professor
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

6

Dr. Olivier BOUTIN
Professor
Deputy Director M2P2, Director Master Chemical
Engineering,
M2P2 Laboratory, Aix Marseille University, France

7

Dr. Paul BOWEN
Professor
School of Metallurgy and Materials,
University of Birmingham, UK

8

Dr. Pierre BREUL
Professor
Polytech Clermont-Ferrand/ Institute Pascal/
University of Clermont Auvergne, France

9

Dr. Maria Jose COCERO
Professor
Chemical Engineering & Environmental Technology,
The University of Valladolid, Spain

06

Heisenberg-Professor
Applied Nanotribology,
Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT), Germany
12 Dr. Martino DI SERIO

Professor
University of Naples Federico II, Italy
13 Dr. Derek ELSWORTH

Professor
Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering andof Geosciences,
The Pennsylvania State University, USA

19 Dr. Tomonari FURUKAWA

Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of Virginia, USA
20 Dr. Hamid GHANDEHARI

Professor
Director of Utah Center for Nanomedicine,
Professor of Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical
Chemistry and Bioengineering,
University of Utah, USA
21 Dr. Jens HARTMANN

Professor
Institute for Geology, Universität Hamburg, Germany
22 Dr. Ryushiro KASAHARA

Professor
Department of Life Science, Fujian Agriculture andForestry University, China

14 Dr. Carolina ESCOBAR

Professor
Department of Environmental Sciences
University of Castilla La Mancha, Spain

23 Dr. Ick Chan KWONv

Principal Research Scientist
Biomedical Research Institute, Korea Institute of Science andTechnology (KIST), Korea

15 Dr. Amir A. FARAJIAN

Professor
Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering,
Wright State University, USA

24 Dr. Youn-Woo LEE

Professor
School of Chemical and Biological Engineering,Seoul National University, Korea

16 Dr. Mohammad FARD

Professor
School of Engineering, RMIT University, Australia
17 Dr. Bruno FAVERYINRAE senior scientist (DR2)
UMR 1355-7254, INRAE-Université Côte d’Azur-CNRS,
Institut Sophia Agrobiotech (ISA), France
18 Dr. Etsuko FUJITA

Senior Chemist
Chemistry Division,
Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA

25 Dr. Pavel LEJČEK

Professor
Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech
Republic, Czech Republic
University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Czech
Republic
26 Dr. Bo LIU

Professor
Department of Plant B iology,
2167 Life Sciences,
University of Calofprnia Davis, USA

27 Dr. Viren Ivor MENEZES

Professor
Department of Aerospace Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
28 Dr. Reiko ODA

Research Director
CBMN (UMR5248), CNRS-University of Bordeaux, France
29 Dr. Shie-Ming PENG

Distinguished Research Professor
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
30 Dr. Christian RENTENBERGER

Associate Professor
Faculty of Physics,
University of Vienna, Austria

36 Dr. Gioacchino (Cino) VIGGIANI

Professor
Solid Mechanics and Civil Engineering,
Université Grenoble Alpes, France

Visiting Associate Professors
41 Dr. Tomoyasu MANI

Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, USA

37 Dr. Thomas WAITZ

Associate University Professor
Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Austria

42 Dr. Agus Pulung SASMITO

Associate Professor
McGill University, Canada

38 Dr. Andrew WHITTLE

Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

43 Dr. Daniel P. ZITTERBART

Assistant Scientist
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA

39 Dr. Zhenghe XU

Dean
College of Engineering,Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China

31 Dr. Stelios RIGOPOULOS

Reader in Thermofluids
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Imperial College London, UK

40 Dr. Firuz ZARE

Professor
Power and Energy Group,
The University of Queensland, Australia

32 Dr. Parasuraman SELVAM

Professor
Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute ofTechnology-Madras, India
33 Dr. Shirley SHEN

Principal Research Scientist
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Organisation (CSIRO), Australia
34 Dr. Amir SI LARBI

Professor
ENISE, University of Lyon, France
35 Dr. Konstantinos Daniel TSAVDARIDIS

Full professor
School of Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering,
City, University of London, UK

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Research Topics

case 01

Bioimaging analysis of
stomatal movementcase 02

The stomata on plant leaf and stem surfaces are
essential to plant survival as they are responsible forgaseous exchange and transpiration. The stomatal
apertures open and close in response to environmental
cues. We are aiming for a better understanding of thecell biological basis of stomatal movement using
advanced bioimaging and image analysis techniques.

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Professor

Associate Professor

Takumi HIGAKI

Ruda LEE

Research Keywords

Research Keywords

Stomatal movement
Bioimaging
Bioimage analysis

Nanomedicine
Drug Delivery System (DDS)
Theranostics

Theranostic nanoplatforms fordisease treatment
Theranostics is a rapidly developing field that combines
the unique opportunities offered by nanotechnology with
precision medicine to provide significantly improved
treatment efficacy with reduced off-target effects. Thisis accomplished through the specific delivery of therapy
to diseased areas. By imaging, the diseased tissue,
diagnosing conditions, and detecting inflamed cancer
cells at an earlier stage, while simultaneously being able
to treat the disease.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of 17 international goals and 169 targets for the period from 2016 to 2030 established with theaim of addressing globally-shared social challenges and realizing a sustainable world. IROAST researchers engage in interdisciplinary research thattranscends the barriers between fields of study as well as original research projects related to energy, environmental issues, materials, resources,
safety, and security. Their results are capable of contributing to solving the global issues indicated by the SDGs. IROAST is committed tocontributing to the establishment of a society that provides safety, security, and well-being by broadly reapplying our vast stock of knowledge
gained through research activities in ways that benefit society.

case 03

Associate Professor

Palm-sized medical device
achieving cancer diagnosis from
1 mL whole blood
Detecting cancer at an early stage is essential toeffective treatment. Our research group has developed
a palm-sized medical device that can offer a cancer
diagnosis from 1mL of whole blood. This device wasdeveloped by mechanical and chemical means. Currently,
we are gathering experimental data for actual clinicaluse. The practical application of this device will makeit possible to detect cancer easily and earlier, and is
expected to contribute significantly to cancer treatment.

case 04

Professor

Yuta NAKASHIMA

Takahiro HOSONO

Research Keywords

Research Keywords

Cancer diagnosis
Cancer detection
Biomicrodevice
Palm-sized device
Biomedical engineering

Environmental changes
Natural disasters
Earth system sciences

Environmental dynamics analysis
on a regional scale
Earth environmental changes are critical concerns intoday’s world. Natural disasters such as flooding that arelinked to these environmental changes are increasingly
occurring. To tackle these issues and mitigate the damage
to society, it is essential to accurately understand thecauses and mechanisms of the systems that generatethese problems. Our laboratory investigates a variety
of issues involved based on aspects of earth systemsciences by introducing multidisciplinary approaches.

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IROAST Research Clusters
Young Researchers (13)
1 Ferroelectric Photovoltaics

8 Study of first-generation objects in

Korea

Japan

Dr. Keitaro TAKAHASHI

Building Structures-DfX

Australia

Dr. Shinya HAYAMI

Japan

UK

GermanyJapan

Cluster coordinator

Dr. Shin-Ichi OHIRA

Dr. Makiko KOBAYASHI

Dr. Mitsuhiro AIDA
Czech
Republic

MexicoJapan

4 Overcoming Multi-Drug Resistance Breast

Cancer for Women’s Health and Qualityof Life

China

USA

Japan

Italy

Japan

UK

Dr. Shinichiro SAWA
France

Japan

Spain

USA

Japan

China

Dr. Mitsuru SASAKIFranceCanadaMexico

Japan

UK

Korea

USA

Japan

17 Nano-medicine and Drug Delivery System

5 Development of Microbially-Aided Carbon

Sequestration Technology
Cluster coordinator

Dr. Hamid HOSANO

6 Digital Plant Cell Biology

Italy

Cluster coordinatorJapan

Dr. Yuta NAKASHIMA

7 Deep Learning for Hydrology

China

Japan

Korea

Czech
Republic

Austria

24 Structure and Dynamics ofMaterials Using Quantum Beams andData-Driven Sciences
Dr. Ichiro AKAI

Dr. Tetsuya KIDA
USA

Japan

New
ZealandJapan

20 Quantification of Three
Cluster coordinator

Dr. Toshifumi MUKUNOKIUK

LatviaJapan

Cluster coordinator

Cluster coordinatorFranceFranceand Environmental Protection

19 Multiscale Modeling of Soil andDimensional Vascular Network

10

Germany

Hungary

25 Nano-materials for Energy Applications

Japan

Rock Materials Using X-ray CT

Japan

Japan

Japan

Cluster coordinator

Dr. Jun OTANICluster coordinator
TurkeyJapan

Dr. Takuro NIIDOME

Technology Using Liquid Biopsy

USA

Dr. Sadahiro TSUREKAWA

18 Nano-medicine and Theranostics

13 Novel Cancer Medical

Cluster coordinator

India

USA Netherlands Japan

Germany

Australia

Cluster coordinator

Earth Surface Systems
Dr. Takahiro HOSONO

Japan

Australia

12 Environmental Diagnosis on
Cluster coordinator

Australia

UK

Germany

Cluster coordinator

Medical and Skincare Nanomaterials
Cluster coordinator

UK

Grain Boundary Engineering

Dr. Makoto TAKAFUJI
FranceChina

23 Microstructure Analysis andCluster coordinator

11 Environmentally Promising Processes forJapan

Dr. Yoji MINE

Cluster coordinator

Spain

New
Zealand

Cluster coordinator

Cluster coordinator

Dr. Ruda LEE

Dr. Toshifumi MUKUNOKI
22 Advanced Structural Materials

16 Nano-Organics and Nano-Hybrids
Singapore Japan

Cluster coordinator

Dr. Kei ISHIDA

Korea

15 Plant Cell and Developmental Biology

Cluster coordinator

Cluster coordinator

Dr. Takumi HIGAKI

Australia

10 Advanced Biomedical Evaluation System

3 Plant Stem Cells and Regeneration

Dr. Atsushi SAINOKICluster coordinator

Means of Ionic Solutes HandlingFranceand Vascularization in Pancreatic Tumor

Cluster coordinator

9 Separation, Synthesis, and Detection by

Cluster coordinator

21 MicroCT-based Quantification of Fibrosis

Supramolecular Materials

Cluster coordinator

2 Next-Generation Design of

Dr. Gaochuang CAI

14 Development of Nano andthe universe with radio telescopes

Cluster coordinator

Dr. Hiroki MATSUOWorld-leading Researchers (12)

Spain

Japan

Cluster 01

Cluster 02
Associate Professor

Research Keywords

Kei ISHIDA
Members:

Dr. Motoki AMAGASAKI, Japan
Dr. Masato KIYAMA, Japan
Dr. Ali ERCAN, Turkey
Dr. Tongbi TU, China

Deep learning
Hydrology
Meteorology

Deep Learning for Hydrology
We are working on interdisciplinary collaborative studies involving
researchers in hydrology and information science. By sharing skills
and knowledge, we are applying the latest deep-learning architectures
to various issues in hydrology and meteorology, for which we are also
working to develop new deep-learning architectures. Our research willserve to assist in resilient flood management and sustainable water
resource management.

Rainfall-runoff Analysis using LSTM

Rainfall Estimation from Standby Data by CNN

Improving the Accuracy of Precipitation Data by CNN

Sea Level Estimation by LSTM

Professor

Makiko KOBAYASHIMembers:

Research Keywords

Flexible ultrasonic sensor
Flexible electronic circuit
Automatic evaluation of
medical ultrasound image

Dr. Toshitaka YAMAKAWA, Japan
Dr. Masayuki TANABE, Japan
Dr. Rajendra Udyavara ACHARYA, Singapore
Dr. Shu Lih OH, Singapore
Dr. RU San TAN, Singapore

Advanced Biomedical Evaluation System
Heart disease is one of the main causes of death worldwide.
Undiagnosed and untreated heart disease will progress and cause
irreversible myocardial damage.
Our unit’s team activities are aimed at achieving the early diagnosisof heart disease by processing information obtained by flexible
ultrasonic sensors and flexible electronic circuit systems with anautomatic diagnostic system using deep-learning algorithms.

11All about IROASTIROAST fosters young researchers who have the potential to perform internationallyand to contribute to joint research and exchange with researchers in different fields or
departments in Kumamoto University and overseas universities.
(as of January 1, 2023)

Members

Achievements

Tenure-track Professors/
Associate Professors

4

Distinguished Professors

4International Joint Research Faculty
Members
Postdoctoral Researchers
Visiting Professor/
Associate Professor

10
3
43

Number of Invited Researchers

Number of International
Internship Students

Target29
Number ofInternational Symposia/Seminars

30

107 in total

Number of Papers

9

77.5%

2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016

72

Target0

COVID-19
0

107

100

30

43

3
2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

15

10

0

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

80%

21

12

0

Target

114

18

15

5
0

Rate of Internationally Co-authored Papers

150

50

20

22

15
10

3768

20

21

25

25

Target25

20

Number of People
who have Joined International
Symposia/Seminars

Research Achievements

25

28

5

IROAST has exceeded the targets it set when it
was first established. Its performance indicators
are the highest in this university, and IROAST
has achieved results that can strengthen andadvance the university's international researchcompetitiveness.

Number of Researchers dispatched
to Overseas Universities

84.6%
88.5%
79.1%
81.9%
83.0%

5

COVID-19002016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

Collaborating Universities, Research Institutes, etc.
(as of January 1, 2023)

8 17

Tenured Faculty

10

13

18
Duration of Appointment to IROAST
Name & Previous Job Title

Research Area
Current Affiliation& Incumbent Name

Jan. 2017 – Mar. 2021

Green Energy
Faculty of Advanced Science and Technology,
Kumamoto University, Associate Professor

Dr. Atsushi SAINOKIAssociate Professor

71

Dr. Takashi ISHIDA
Assistant Professor

Dr. Takumi HIGAKI
Professor

Nano Material Science
Institute of Industrial Nanomaterials,
Kumamoto University, Associate Professor

Jan. 2017 – Dec. 2021

Dr. Ruda LEE

Associate Professor

Advanced Green Bio
Faculty of Advanced Science and Technology,
Kumamoto University, Professor

Jul. 2017 – Jun. 2022

Dr. Mitsuhiro AIDA
Professor

Rate of Top 10% Papers

Field Weighted Citation Index

(%)

3

40
33.3

24.6

20

1.59
1.33 1.31

14.3

0

2

20.9 19.4

20

10

2.41

Target

30

1

0.85

Target

1.1

0.9

7.5

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

0

9
14

16

Advanced Green Bio
Faculty of Advanced Science and Technology,
Kumamoto University, Professor

Aug. 2017 – Sep. 2021

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JAPAN

2

3
4

6

Advanced Green Bio
Faculty of Advanced Science and Technology,
Kumamoto University, Associate Professor

Jun. 2016 – May 2021

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● International Lab● University-level Exchange Agreements● Department-level Exchange Agreements● Researcher based MOU

Universitat de València, Spain
Mine Multiphysics Laboratory, McGill University, Canada
Liu Laboratory, Dept. of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis, USA
G3 Center, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Michigan State University, USA
Valladolid University, Spain
School of Biology, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Laboratoire 3SR, Université Grenoble Alpes,France
College of Health Science and Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Yonsei University at
Wonju, Republic of Koreat
Groupe MSMG of Institut Pascal, Université Clermont Auvergne, France
Główny Instytut Górnictwa (GIG), Poland
CSIRO Manufacturing, The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation(CSIRO), Australia
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Doan Dinh Hung lab, Vietnam National Museum of Nature, Vietnam Academy of Scienceand Technology, Viet Nam
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
lnstitut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Indonesia
Tsavdaridis Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering, City, University of London, UK
Si Larbi Laboratory, LTDS, École Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Saint-Étienne (ENISE), École
Centrale de Lyon (ECL), Université de Lyon, France
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International Symposia & Seminars

IROAST provides international symposia to share research results both domestically andinternationally. Researchers discuss issues across different fields, leading to the launch of new
interdisciplinary research and international collaboration. Though international exchange has
been made difficult by COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, the symposia have continued online.

The 88 and 89 IROAST Seminars

The 14th IROAST International Symposium on
Plant Development and Biotic Interaction

The seminars were held organized by Prof. Makoto
Takafuji (FAST), inviting Prof. Josep Lluís Barona-Vilar of
the University of Valencia, Spain (Visiting Professor at
IROAST) on November 29 and December 2, 2022.

The symposium, organized by Prof. Shinichiro SAWA (FAST) and Associate Prof. Masahiko
FURUTANI (IROAST), was held on December 13, 2022. Approximately 60 researchers, including
IROAST Visiting Professors, gathered to exchange the latest information. During the lunch break,graduate students of Kumamoto University gave poster presentations.

ththProf. Josep Lluís BARONA-VILAR

Dr. Bruno FAVERY (IROAST Visiting Professor)

Prof. Makoto TAKAFUJI

Prof. Shinichiro SAWA

＊FAST: Faculty of Advanced Science and Technology

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Salons and Workshop

The IROAST Salon for the Future Cross-Disciplinary Research
From the phase 2, IROAST hold the Salon almost monthly to promote ongoing exchanges
among researchers and to develop intra-university joint research. Each salon meeting isplanned by an IROAST faculty member, and each IROAST faculty members present theirresearch and exchanges opinions. As several research presentations in different fields are
made at each salon meeting, the salons serve as a forum for the exchange of information
among researchers across disciplines.

Research Internship Program

We offer research internships to graduate students and young researchers enrolled inforeign universities and research institutes for short-term assignments, mainly to provide
them with research guidance.

Mr. Rahmat HIDAYAT (Politeknik Negeri Lampung, Indonesia)
Internship period: November 25, 2022 - January 31, 2023 (including online internship period)
Host faculty: Prof. Shin-Ichi OHIRA (FAST, IROAST International Joint Research Faculty Member)

Meeting with Director TAKASHIMA,
Prof. OHIRA, and Mr. HIDAYAT

Mr. FADILLAH, Mr. HIDAYAT, Dr. RANI,
and Prof. OHIRA

Mr. Yue WEN (Nanjing University of Technology, China)

The IROAST Workshop for Research Capability Building
IROAST conducted IROAST
held Workshop for faculties andstudents in the uiversity to aim
for polishing their Researchskills by inviting expert lectures
Outside the university.
Intnis workshop, three topics
which are necessary to leapfrog
as world-leading Researchers
was talked in English.

Internship period: January 17, 2022 – February 18, 2022 (online internship only)
Host faculty: Assoc. Prof. Gaochuang CAI (IROAST)

Online internshipEntered the Doctoral Course of the Graduate Schoolof Science and Technology in April 2022, andawarded a certificate of completion of internship.

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IROAST, Kumamoto University

International Research Organization
for Advanced Science & Technology

IROAST Kumamoto University

IROAST, Kumamoto University

International Research Organization for
Advanced Science and Technology (IROAST), Kumamoto University
2-39-1 Kurokami, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto 860-8555, Japan
Phone: +81-96-342-3497 / 3362 / 3979
Fax: +81-96-342-3320
E-mail: szk-kiko@jimu.kumamoto-u.ac.jp
https://iroast.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/
February 2023