The L-INSIGHT logo expresses the possibilities
and the future that lies ahead through the wide application ofvarious insights toward the world. The circles symbolize
researchers taking wing into the world as well as the explosive
expansion of their insights.

L-INSIGHT
LEADING INSTITUTE ￨ KYOTO UNIVERSITY

Program for the Development of Next-generation
Leading Scientists with Global Insight (L-INSIGHT)“Strategic Professional Development Program for Young Researchers”,
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports,
Science and Technology-Japan

Leading InstituteContatct Us

Partners (in random order)

KYOTO UNIVERSITY
Center for Enhancing Next-Generation
Research Public relations / Educational affairs

TEL：075-753-5916
E-MAIL：office-l-insight@mail2.adm.kyoto-u.ac.jp
http://www.l-insight.rp.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ja/

Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku Kyoto-shi, Kyoto,606-8501, Japan
Research Administration Building 1F

First edition 2020
© Center for Enhancing Next-generation Research, Kyoto University

Printed in JapanL-INSIGHT
The Program for the Development of
Next-generation Leading Scientists with
Global Insight (L-INSIGHT) aims to develop, validate,and spread programs to train the next-generation ofworld-class researchers with global insight
who can spearhead new paths to the future.

OUR AIMS
By 2030, researchers of the L-INSIGHT will:
Play leading international roles in cutting-edge research
Engage in frontier research and new disciplines
Bring about innovation in industries

WHAT IS“GLOBAL INSIGHT”?
L-INSIGHT defines global insight as theability to span various boundaries – such as time,
geography, academic disciplines, sectors,
and cultural spheres – with broad overviews,
astute perceptions, and foresight.

A program that acts as a strong driving force toward thegrowth of early career researchers striving to be leading
scientists through the provision of as much time andopportunities as possible for cogitation and deliberation

L-INSIGHT Fellow

Fellows choose programs and opportunities
based on their professional goals.

In November 2019, Kyoto University’s Program for the Development of
Next-generation Leading Scientists with Global Insight (L-INSIGHT) was adopted
as a Strategic Professional Development Program for Young Researchers, a Project
for the Development of Human Resources in Science and Technology FY2019 under
the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan.

Practical Program
Group

Understanding and fostering
global insight (mindsets, skillsets) through dialogues withmentors and next-generation
researchers in other field.

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their rich global insight, thereby boosting new collaborative
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L-INSIGHT has mechanisms to reflect requests and considerations ofresearch laboratory and/or affiliating institute/graduate school towhich fellows belong, and value
exchanging of views.

Spanning
Cultural Spheres

Retreats for the researcher
community, dialogues with
top scientists

Research Laboratory,
Affiliating Institute/
Graduate School, etc.

Program activation support: covers costs of holding international
conferences, domestic and international travel, open accesspublishing in international journals.

Making clear objectives and efforts towards objectives
through dialogues with professor emeritus/emerita
mentors and curriculum advising mentors.

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Coordination

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cultivation at Kyoto University → Interactions withearly career researchers at partner institutions(universities, companies) → Gaining program
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researcher communities (beyond academic ﬁelds,
cultural spheres, and sectors) and vitalizing research
activities.

Environments
for Early Career Researchers
to Advance Into the Future・Former fellows are offered opportunities to mentor
early career researchers.
・Recommendations for human resource cultivation
rooted in Japanese society/culture and proposals
for its settings.

About L-INSIGHT
Background and Expectations

Global Insight Spheres and Components

In November 2019, Kyoto University’s Program for the Development of Next-generation Leading Scientists
with Global Insight (L-INSIGHT) was adopted as a Strategic Professional Development Program for Young
Researchers, a Project for the Development of Human Resources in Science and Technology FY2019 under the
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan.
In order to operate the L-INSIGHT program, the Strategic Development Hub for Early Career Researchers wasestablished in the Center for Enhancing Next-generation Research (E-NER), the Center for the Promotion ofInterdisciplinary Education and Research (C-PIER), Kyoto University.

“Global Insight” comprises mindsets and skill sets applied in three spheres critical for leading next-generation
researchers. Mindsets and skill sets are used across L-INSIGHT as tools. They come in three types: self,interpersonal, and system (global/society).

Early career researchers (ECRs) currently face inherent difficulties in acquiring the practical training andexperience across disciplinary, geographical, and industry-academia boundaries needed to become
next-generation leading scientists. Short-term exposure to different disciplines and experiences of cultural
exchanges rarely facilitates practical accomplishments in interdisciplinary or frontier research. L-INSIGHT wastherefore created to overcome these inadequacies in researcher training programs.
L-INSIGHT aims to develop and implement programs to train scientists with Global Insight who can become
world-class researchers by 2030 and beyond, and to create and spread integrated and systematized training
programs through continued improvements.
Here, Global Insight refers to the ability to span various boundaries – such as time, geography, academic
disciplines, sectors, and cultural spheres – with broad overviews, astute perceptions, and foresight.
Against the backdrop of ever-increasing globalization, international competition in the academic and industrial
landscapes is escalating and changing.
More than ever, there is a need for Japan to develop world-class ECRs with Global Insight who can playleading roles in next-generation research. These scientists will be entrusted by society with the role andmission of advancing Japan’s academic research in the future and raising its international standing.
We anticipate that the achievements of ECRs supported by L-INSIGHT will increase the presence of academia
and industries, and subsequently aid the rich cultural development and sustainability of future societies.

Developing L-INSIGHT

Three Spheres

Mindsets and Skill Sets:
Three Types

Producing New Values

Sphere 1 Value Creation

SELF

Creating new values, elucidating mechanisms,
and acquiring new knowledge as a researcher.

The mindsets and skill sets to foster/re-energize
one’s mind and cultivate/strengthen one’s skills.

Nourishing Nascent Values

INTERPERSONAL

Sphere 2 Internal and External
Coordination

Makes an effort in improving interpersonal skills
for one-on-one situation and in small groups.

Accommodation and resolution during conflicts
that arise when developing values, applying
elucidated mechanisms, and spreading acquired
knowledge.

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Tries to demonstrate readiness, spirit, scientificexpertise and research performance that are
self-obtained so as to implement them effectively
as a system in a larger community or complicatedsociety.

Spreading Values in Society and the World

Sphere 3 Social Innovation

Applying, spreading, and enhancing the fruits ofresearch in society.

L-INSIGHT is operated in collaboration with educators, researchers and graduate schools possessing extensive
experience in international human resource development. The program will investigate best practice examplesof ECR training programs from Japan and overseas, and apply existing initiatives from Kyoto University.
By incorporating these efforts, L-INSIGHT will systematically develop programs that traverse international andindustry-academia borders.

Sphere 1
Value Creation

Furthermore, core ECRs supported by L-INSIGHT (referred to as “L-INSIGHT Fellows”) will be provided with
opportunities to clearly identify their own goals and to connect with researchers in partnering industry andoverseas institutes, through which L-INSIGHT Fellows will be able to foster, enhance, and expand the skill sets
and mindsets needed to achieve their goals.

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For this, L-INSIGHT will establish Global Insight competencies, build a method to validate the program, andpromote active participation of ECRs from Kyoto University, other education/research institutes, as well as
industries/companies.
The knowledge gained in this program will then be used for its expansion in the Kansai region and WesternJapan, and ultimately throughout the nation.

Sphere 3
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For example, we will provide opportunities for Fellows to interact with researchers from overseas partner
institutes and business enterprises to encourage the initiation of joint research. To allow Fellows to make themost of these opportunities, the program will support the development and enhancement of skill sets such as
academic writing skills, abilities to communicate results, management skills, leadership qualities, and theability to acquire external funding. In addition, we will aid the fostering and expansion of mindsets such as aco-creation mentality, future-focused thinking, challenging spirit, and internationality.

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In L-INSIGHT, we will work to develop and enhance the skill sets as well as to foster and expand mindsets of
L-INSIGHT Fellows crucial to the development of research capabilities that form the foundation ofcompetitiveness and excellence.

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development framework created for The Keihanshin Consortium for Fostering theMinato Nagahiro

Next Generation of Global Leaders in Research (K-CONNEX), this program will not

President, Kyoto University

only develop and strengthen the skill set needed by early-career researchers, butwill also adopt an integrated approach to foster and stimulate their mindset. The
program will contribute to the expansion of Japan’s research and development

As Society 5.0 and Industry 4.0 continue to drive

capabilities and international presence in scientific, technological, and academic

extensive changes in social and industrial

fields through the cultivation of leading scientists.

structures, it is imperative that Japan endeavors
to promote scientific and technological innovation
to ensure the nation’s sustainable development.
In order to propel future innovations, it is vital to continuously foster exceptional
researchers. Since 2014, Kyoto University has been collaborating with Osaka
University and Kobe University to establish a consortium for the development of
human resources, and constructed a training system for early-career researchers.
Now, we have built upon the accomplishments of that consortium to create a new

Yoshikawa Minako “Jen”
Director, The Strategic Development Hub for
Early Career Researchers

program to develop the next generation of leading scientists, and launched a
project to institute a systematic training support system. This project aims to foster

The Strategic Development Hub for Early Career

the development of globally competitive personnel who transcend industrial andResearchers was established within the Center

academic boundaries: individuals who can excel in international academia while

for Enhancing Next-Generation Research. It

also engaging in creative research and development in the industrial world. We

manages the Program for the Development ofplan to integrate and systematize the program, ultimately expanding it nationwide.

Next-generation Leading Scientists with Global
Insight (L-INSIGHT), and is composed of academic staff who develop andimplement a variety of sub programs, university research administrators (URAs),
and others. With the aim of transforming early career researchers intonext-generation world-class scientists, L-INSIGHT emphasizes the importance ofcultivating global insight to open new paths to the future. This principle isTokitoh Norihiro

represented by the program’s name: L-INSIGHT, which means “acquiring insight”

Executive Vice-President,
Kyoto University

in Japanese. The aims of L-INSIGHT overlap with those of The Keihanshin
Consortium for Fostering the Next Generation of Global Leaders in Research(K-CONNEX), of which Kyoto University is a leading member. As L follows K in theThis program, which was adopted in November

alphabet, the naming of L-INSIGHT is indicative of a progression in our efforts to2019, aims to promote scientific and technologicaldevelop, operate, and promote even more advanced programs. The mission of

innovation in Japan, and elevate the nation’s

L-INSIGHT is to greatly accelerate the development of early career researchers as

research capabilities by strategically developing

the next-generation of leading scientists, while providing them with experience ofoutstanding researchers. The achievement ofinternational and industrial-academic collaboration. By providing richthese goals requires the establishment of a program to train individuals who, as

opportunities for growth experiences across disciplinary, geographic, andleading scientists, can transcend the boundaries between industry and academia,

industrial-academic boundaries, L-INSIGHT provides early career researchers with

as well as the creation of a systematic training support system. The program will

the time and space needed to acquire the skill sets and mindsets essential toenroll motivated and talented early-career researchers with advanced expertise

attaining their personal goals. In order to effectively and strategically boost the

who aim to become internationally competitive principal investigators (PIs), anddevelopment of early career researchers, the program design is based not only on

will train them as next-generation leading scientists with global insight who can

the advice of industry, government, and academic experts, but also prioritizes

forge new paths to the future. By applying the early-career researcher

input from the early career researchers themselves.

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Industry-Academia
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International
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Interplay between core

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L-INSIGHT Policies

Industry-Academia
Collaboration

practical applications

L-INSIGHT aims to develop, validate, and spread
programs to train next-generation leading
scientists with Global Insight who can spearhead
new paths to the future.

The L-INSIGHT program will be designed to enablemutual interplay between core fundamentals andpractical applications during the Core and Practical
Stages in order to support the acquisition andenhancement of Global Insight by L-INSIGHT
Fellows.

We will look for motivated and talented ECRs
(L-INSIGHT Fellows) who aspire to become
internationally competitive principal investigators(PIs). We welcome such individuals who takepride in their role as next-generation scientists
and produce research achievements that
demonstrate exceptional creativity and advanced
expertise.

Even after Fellows advance from the Core Program
stage to the Practical Program stage, the program
will retain a degree of flexibility that allows
additional training for those who wish to reinforce
their understanding of the competencies.

Semi-customized program

Evaluations facilitated

2 approach

3 by mentors’ support

L-INSIGHT does not require Fellows to undergo allof the training programs.

Each L-INSIGHT Fellow will be assigned a Kyoto
University Professor Emeritus/Emerita with close
expertise as a Mentor.

Instead, we adopt a semi-customized programapproach in which each Fellow will strategicallyselect components from the suite of available
programs based on his/her individual targets for
Global Insight competencies and self-evaluations.

Each Mentor will support the assigned Fellow inthe self-assessment of his/her goal attainment
with consideration to the required skill set andmindset.

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Co-creation of the program

Flexible cooperation with

Application of industry’s

4 through dialogue

5 international institutes

6 practical capabilities

L-INSIGHT will be developed and improved byincorporating the Fellows perspectives andadvice from internal and external experts.

L-INSIGHT is working in collaboration with Kyoto
University’s overseas centers* and overseas
partner institutes to provide Fellows opportunities
to interact with other ECRs and distinguishedresearchers based in other countries.

L-INSIGHT places a strong emphasis on directly
incorporating advice from industrial perspectives.

For example, the establishment of the Global
Insight competencies will actively incorporate
the opinions of the ECRs and experts from
Kyoto University and beyond. In this way, theprograms will be co-created through dialogue.

This will facilitate the initiation of joint researchand provide opportunities for Fellows to gain
experience as international conference conveners.

10* North America (Washington DC, US), Europe (Heidelberg,
Germany), and ASEAN (Bangkok, Thailand)

Financial support

7 that encourages active
participation

To encourage "autonomous participation by
financial support", we provide "Program Activation
Support" for each L-INSIGHT Fellow who actively
participates in our core and practical programs.
The support includes travel expenses to attend theprograms and publication charges to disseminate
the results of one's research work.

The program will provide numerous opportunities
for planning joint research between Fellows andcorporate researchers, thereby building andexpanding a network that connects ECRs in
industry and academia.

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Utilization of knowledgeof industry-academiacollaboration(Open Innovation Institute (OI Institute),
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Strategic Development
Hub for Early Career Researchers
Hub Director
Steering Committee
Operations
Committee

Screening
Committee

Advisory
Board
External
Evaluation
Committee

L-INSIGHT Administrative Office,Center for Enhancing
Next-Generation Research (E-NER),
Kyoto University(ASEAN, Europe, North America)

Exchanges
between ECRs
and local researchers

Executive VP for Research

Program Development Working Group

Backup by overseas centers

Implementation of the selected
program in an international
environment

President

Kyoto University Research
Administration (KURA)

Curriculum
Advising Mentor

E-NER faculty also function as Curriculum Advising Mentors, and help
fellows strategically choose programs based on their performance
objectives for global insight competencies.
Program-Specific Professor/Program Manager: Yoshikawa Minako “Jen”
Program-Specific Associate Professor: Nakano Asa

Professor Emeritus/Emerita
MentorWith professor emeritus/emerita mentors, fellows discuss theirprogress towards their global insight competencies (approx. 2x/year).
Fellows can draw from these discussions during self-evaluations andwhen reworking objectives.

Advisory Board

Experts from Japan and abroad periodically offer advice regarding
L-INSIGHT operations.

On-site Laboratory
HeKKSaGOn
German-Japanese
University Alliance,(Heidelberg,Kyoto,
Karlsruhe,
Tohoku（in Sendai）,
Göttingen,Osaka)
Strategic Partnerships
and more

Research Promotion Department

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FELLOWS
IN 2020
Arai Yasuyuki
Isobe Masanori
Okamura Ryosuke
Katsura Yukako

Arai Yasuyuki

Isobe Masanori

Okamura Ryosuke

Assistant Professor, Center
for Research and Applicationof Cellular Therapy, Department of Clinical Laboratory
Medicine, Kyoto University
Hospital

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Kyoto
University Hospital

Program-specific AssistantProfessor, Department of
Gastrointestinal Surgery,
Kyoto University Hospital

Graduate of the Medical Science Department inKyoto University’s Faculty of Medicine (2006).
After clinical training at Kitano Hospital (Tazuke
Kofukai Medical Research Institute) and Kurashiki
Central Hospital, graduated from the doctoral
course of Kyoto University’s Graduate School of
Medicine (hematology, oncology). Subsequently
engaged in immunology research for three years
as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutesof Health (USA). After returning to Japan andworking as a clinical fellow at Kyoto University
Hospital’s Hematology and Oncology Department,
in 2018 became an assistant professor at thehospital’s Departments of Transfusion Medicine
and Cell Therapy (today, Center for Research andApplication of Cellular Therapy, Department ofClinical Laboratory). Works on the development
and application of cell therapy, including
hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

Graduate of the Medical Science Department inKyoto University’s Faculty of Medicine. Afterclinical training, became the psychiatrist in chargeof child and adolescent outpatient services. Ph.D.
(Medicine; Kyoto University). After acquiringdoctoral degree, engaged in clinical research on
ADHD and addictive disorders as a speciallyappointed researcher in Behavioural and Clinical
Neuroscience Institute and Department of
Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. Upon
returning to Japan, became a program-specificassistant professor at Kyoto University Hospital’s
Department of Psychiatry and was involved inlaunching the Center for Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry. Isobe does clinical work and researchon childhood/adolescence and eating disorders.
Assumed current position in November 2019.

Nara Medical University Faculty of Medicine
graduate (2006). Initial clinical training at Nara
Medical University Hospital. After working at
Hyogo Prefectural Amagasaki Hospital (today,
Hyogo Prefectural Amagasaki General Medical
Center) as a general surgeon from 2008 to 2013,
studied clinical research at Kyoto University’s
Graduate School of Medicine (Department ofSurgery). Starting in 2017, for three years carriedout research on personalized cancer therapy
that uses molecular profiling at the University ofCalifornia San Diego Moores Cancer Center.
Assumed current position in April 2020. While
working as a clinical surgeon, also researches
cancer treatments. Ph.D. (Medicine; Kyoto
University, 2018).

Katsura Yukako

Gomi Ryota

Assistant Professor, Cellular
Biology Section, Primate
Research Institute, Kyoto
University

Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental
Engineering, Graduate
School of Engineering, Kyoto
University

Graduate of the five-year doctoral course of the
Department of Evolutionary Studies of
Biosystems in School of Advanced Sciences at
the Graduate University for Advanced Studies(SOKENDAI). Katsura’s dissertation was on theevolution of mammalian sex chromosomes.
Worked as JSPS overseas research fellowshipp o s t d o c t o r a l r e s e a r c h e r a t U C B e r k e l e y,Pennsylvania State University. After serving as an
assistant professor in Nihon University School of
Medicine, assumed current position in 2019.
Specializes in phylogenetics, genome analysis
and other areas in evolutionary genetics.

In September 2016, graduated from the
Department of Environmental Engineering’s
doctoral course in Kyoto University’s Graduate
School of Engineering. Subsequently worked as
an assistant professor in the Environmental
Systems Engineering Environmental Risk Analysis
Laboratory (Department of Environmental
Engineering). Carried out research on genomic
analysis of Klebsiella pneumoniae (bacteria thatlive in river water) at the University of Melbourne
from August to December 2018 and at Monash
University from January to August 2019. Current
research topic is drug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae
genome analysis.

Gomi Ryota
Takahashi Yusuke
Tanaka Tomohiro
Nakano Genta
Numata Kenji
Fujii Toshihiro
in Japanese syllabary order

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Takahashi Yusuke
Associate Professor, Divisionof Cognitive Psychology in
Education, Graduate Schoolof Education, Kyoto University

Ph.D. (Department of Multi-Disciplinary Sciences,
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The
University of Tokyo). After fixed-term posts at
Kyoto University (Center for the Promotion of
Excellence in Higher Education, Collaborative
Graduate Program in Design, and The Hakubi
Center for Advanced Research), joined current
position in April 2020. Specializes in educational
psychology, development psychology, andbehavioral genetics. Engages in research thatelucidates developmental aspects and underlying
mechanisms of individual differences in human
psychological characteristics and psychiatric
symptoms, as well as that seeks a deeper
understanding the complex interactions between
genes and environments therein.

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Tanaka Tomohiro

Nakano Genta

Assistant Professor, Department of Natural Resources,
Hall of Global Environmental
Research, Graduate Schoolof Environmental Studies,
Kyoto University

Assistant Professor, ResearchCenter for Disaster Reduction Systems, Disaster
Prevention ResearchInstitute, Kyoto University

Graduate of the master’s and doctoral courses of
the Department of Civil and Earth Resources
Engineering in Kyoto University’s Graduate Schoolof Engineering. JSPS DC2 research fellow (April2016), JSPS PD research fellow (October 2016).
Assumed current post in March 2017. Research
includes numerical modelling of flood-inundation
during heavy rainfall and its quantitative flood risk
assessment, as well as, recently, nation-scale
impact assessment of climate change on extreme
floods across Japan and economic model-based
assessment of climate change adaptation
measures. Received awards include Japan Societyof Hydrology and Water Resources Best Paper
Award (2014), Japan Society of Civil Engineers
Best Paper Award (2020), Japan Society of Civil
Engineers Hydrology Young Author Excellent
Paper Award (2020).

Ph.D. (Informatics; Department of Social
Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics,
Kyoto University). Specializes in action researchon disaster risk reduction education andcommunity-based disaster risk management.
Primary fields are Kochi Prefecture in Japan,
Nepal, and Mexico. For approximately three
years, worked on community-based disaster risk
management and disaster risk reduction policy in
El Salvador as a JICA project formulation advisor
as well as a Japan Overseas Cooperation
Volunteers . Assumed current post in December
2019. Aiming to have community members takean active role in disaster risk reduction, engages
in practice-based research in collaboration withlocal schools and governments.

Numata Kenji

Fujii Toshihiro

Professor, Department ofMaterial Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering,
Kyoto University

Program-specific AssistantProfessor/Collaborative
Assistant Professor, Hakubi
Center for Advanced
Research/Graduate Schoolof Science, Kyoto University

Graduate of the Department of Polymer Chemistryin Tokyo Institute of Technology (2003). Doctor ofEngineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology(2007). JSPS Overseas Research Fellow at Tufts
University (USA, 2008), Team Leader (PI) of RIKEN(2012), Cabinet Office ImPACT project leader (2014),
JST ERATO research director (2016). Assumed thecurrent post in 2020. His research topic is thesynthesis and degradation of biopolymers,
especially, structural proteins. Major awards
include the American Chemical Society’s Macro
Letters/ Biomacromolecules/Macromolecules
Young Investigator Award (2020) and the MEXT
Minister Early Career Scientist Award (2018).

Received Ph.D. in Science from Graduate Schoolof Science, Osaka City University. Astrophysicist.
Hakubi Researcher. After receiving Ph.D., worked
at Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP),
University of Chicago and Institute for Cosmic Ray
Research (ICRR), University of Tokyo, appointed
current position in December 2018. Specializes in
the observation of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.
Engages in joint research with the Telescope Array
Experiment and Pierre Auger Observatory, being
the highest sensitivities to ultra-high-energy
cosmic rays in the both northern and southernhemispheres. In the next-generation cosmic rayobservatory dubbed FAST Project, leads new
cosmic-ray telescope development as principal
investigator. Received awards include JSPS
Research Fellowships for Young Scientists (DC2and PD), JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for
Research Abroad, Young Scientist Award of the
Physical Society of Japan (2018) and Cosmic Ray
Physics Award of Cosmic ray Researchers
Congress (2018)

L-INSIGHT Fellows

Application and Acceptance Process
L-INSIGHT’s screening committee fairly and impartially screens applicants from both academic
perspectives and a holistic perspective. The latter includes personal assessments, namely,
whether applicants have the qualities of next-generation leaders.

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Applications
Accepted

Document
Screening

Informational sessions for organizational
units and prospective applicants.
(In the 2020 academic year, replaced withinformational videos due to COVID-19.)

Carried out by the Strategic Development
Hub for Early Career Researchers
Screening Committee.

Interview
Screening

For applicants that passed the document
screening. Carried out by the Strategic
Development Hub for Early Career
Researchers Screening Committee.
Applicants that pass this stage become
candidates.

Final
Screening

Strategic Development Hub for Early
Career Researchers Steering Committee
selects fellows from list of candidates.

Acceptance

Notifications sent to successful
candidates, who then do acceptancepaperwork.

The above schedule is approximate and subject to change.
For details, please refer to L-INSIGHT’s homepage: http://www.l-insight.rp.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/

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