FridayPart 1: Symposium

27 January 2023 13:00−17:30

International Hall III, Kyoto University Centennial Clock Tower Memorial Hall 2F

Global Mobility
for Early Career
Researchersin Post-pandemic World

Greetings & Part 1 13:00−15:15／Part 2 15:20−16:00／Part 3 16:00−17:30
Participants Graduate students, postdocs, researchers, URAs
Format On-site (group discussion) & Online (MIRO and other online tools)
Language Japanese & English (consecutive interpretation available)
Organizers Kyoto University Center for Enhancing Next-Generation Research,

Kyoto University Research Administration Center,
Kyoto University Division of Graduate Studies
Collaborator Kyoto University European Center

Case Studies on International Experiencesby Early Career Researchers
Perspectives on moving abroad and returning to one’s home

“Strategies to Make the Most of What You Have Learned Abroad
After Coming Back to Japan”
INOUE Kosuke［Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University/L-INSIGHT Fellow］
Perspectives on transferring overseas research institutions“Searching for Balance: a Road of Trial and Error
Across Disciplines and Cultures”

In recent years, faced with the emergence of global agendas,
many early career researchers may be turning their attention tosolving social issues in the international society
through their research themes and career.
In this series, early career researchers who are active on the global arena
will share their perspectives based on their own experiences
as examples and discuss with participants strategies on how to look forward
to careers and research issues balancing between the whole
and the individual and between competition and coexistence.

Zenas Chao［International Research Center for Neurointelligence, The University of Tokyo］
Perspectives after returning to one’s home country“Understanding Your Inter-Cultural Superpowers
After Leaving Japan”
Jennifer Coates［School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield］
International Flow Analysis by an Expert“Event History Analysis of the Impact of Overseas ResearchExperience on Researchers’ Careers”

In this second session, an L-INSIGHT Fellow with overseas experience,a WPI affiliated international researcher, and a researcher who has returned tothe home country from Kyoto University will speak and discuss their experiences
and an expert on researchers’ event history will talk about an international flow analysis
in the Part I. A workshop on inerdisciprinary research will be held In the Part II.
This will be an informative and learning opportunity for graduate students
who want to challenge themselves in an international environment
and early career researchers who are faced with the challenges of internationalizationin their laboratories amidst a recovery in the international flow of people.

FUJIWARA Ayano［Faculty of Economics, Japan University of Economics］

Part 2: Workshop

Let’s Start
Interdisciplinary Research Today!

Registration https://forms.gle/Y4KypF7EQQ9vY8Xi7
Registration deadline: 12:00, Thursday, 26 January 2023
Please note that there is a limit to the numberof people who can participate.

Showcase of Academic Supports
for Early Career Researchers by KURA
Workshop
LecturerFUJITA Hiroyo［Kyoto University
Research Administration Center］

Part 3: Networking &Refreshments

Series:Life as a Scholar“Your home and beyond”
2ndL-INSIGHT Career Program

Global Mobilityfor Early Career
Researchersin Post-pandemicWorld

Greetings“Equilibrity Between Similarity and Difference”
KANO Mitsunobu［Member of Science Council of Japan / Member of theCouncil for Science and Technology of MEXT/L-INSIGHT Advisory Board］

Symposium: Global Mobility for Early Career
Researchers in Post-pandemic WorldPart 1

13:10–13:55

Case Studies on International Experiencesby Early Career Researchers
Perspectives on moving abroad and returning to one’s home

“Strategies to Make the Most of What You Have
Learned Abroad After Coming Back to Japan”
INOUE Kosuke［Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University/
L-INSIGHT Fellow］

Perspectives on transferring overseas research institutions“Searching for Balance: a Road of Trial and Error
Across Disciplines and Cultures”
Zenas Chao［International Research Center for Neurointelligence,
The University of Tokyo］

Perspectives after returning to one’s home country“Understanding Your Inter-Cultural Superpowers
After Leaving Japan”
Jennifer Coates［School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield］
13:55–14:05

International Flow Analysis by an Expert“Event History Analysis of the Impact of Overseas ResearchExperience on Researchers’ Careers”
FUJIWARA Ayano［Faculty of Economics, Japan University of Economics］
14:05–14:35

Group Discussion with Speakers
Group Facilitators

Thi Thuc Vien Dinh［Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University］
Samuel Matthew Girao Dumlao［Graduate School of Energy Science,Kyoto University］

Phyoe Wae Hein［Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University］
Surabhi Raman［Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University］
NAGAI Shogo［ Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University］
SAKATA Chifumi［ Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University］
YAMADA Shintaro［Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University/L-INSIGHT Fellow］

Yoshimitsu Nana［Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University/

L-INSIGHT Fellow］
14:35–15:05

Plenary Discussion
Moderator

ARAI Yasuyuki［Kyoto University Hospital/L-INSIGHT Fellow］
15:05–15:15

Closing Remarks
AKAMATSU Akihiko［Director of the Strategic Development Hubfor Early Career Researchers, Kyoto University］

Workshop: Let’s Start Interdisciplinary
Research Today!

Part 2

Showcase of Academic Supports for Early Career Researchers by KURA
15:20–16:00

Workshop
Lecturer

FUJITA Hiroyo［Kyoto University Research Administration Center］
Part 3 16:00–17:30

Networking & Refreshments（Enjoy free refreshments from Maeda Coffee!）ContactOffice of the Program for the Development of Next-generation Leading Scientists
with Global Insight (L-INSIGHT), Kyoto University
Phone: 075−753−5916／Email: admin-l-insight@mail2.adm.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Global Mobility for Early Career Researchers in Post-pandemic World

13:00–13:10

KANO Mitsunobu
Vice Executive Director at Okayama University/Professor at Facultyof Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering in Health Systems,
Okayama University/Member of Science Council of Japan/Member ofCouncil for Science and Technology, MEXT/L-INSIGHT Advisory
Board
MD, The University of Tokyo. PhD in Medicine, The University ofTokyo. Clinical training at St. Luke’s International Hospital. Afterworking as a faculty member at the University of Tokyo, became aprofessor at Okayama University. Vice Executive Director in chargeof promoting Okayama University’s efforts to help achieve SDGs.
Dean of the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University.
Experienced many positions including Science and Technology
Co-Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Member of Science
Council of Japan, Member of the Council for Science and Technologyof MEXT, and other governmental officials.

KANO Mitsunobu

̶INOUE Kosuke
Assistant Professor at Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University/L-INSIGHT fellow
Kosuke Inoue obtained his MD from the University of Tokyo in
2013. After working as a physician at National Center for Global
Health and Medicine and Yokohama Rosai Hospital, he moved toU.S. to study at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health andobtained PhD in epidemiology from UCLA in 2021. In the sameyear, he was appointed Assistant Professor at the Graduate School ofMedicine, Kyoto University. He is also engaged in medical care atthe Department of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Nutrition, Kyoto
University Hospital. He received NIH/NIDDK F99/K00 Award in2020. From 2017 to 2022, he published 68 peer-reviewed papers (heis the lead/responsible author of 44 papers). His main research topic
is the elucidation of causal mechanisms in clinical medicine using themethod of causal inference and the evaluation of their heterogeneity
caused by social background factors.

INOUE Kosuke

̶Zenas Chao
Principal Investigator/Associate Professor at International ResearchCenter for Neurointelligence (IRCN), The University of Tokyo
Zenas Chao is fascinated by the human mind and the developmentof machines with human-like intelligence, and curious about thebiological origins of free will, consciousness, and creativity. Aftergraduating from college in Taiwan with a dual B.S. in Life Scienceand Chemistry, he attended Georgia Institute of Technology in theUnited States to study Biomedical Engineering. For his Ph.D., he grewneurons in petri dishes and connected them to robots demonstratingthat a machine with an artificial organic brain can learn purposeful
behavior. After graduation, he moved to Japan and held positions
at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute as a Research Scientist, theNational Institute for Physiological Sciences as an Assistant Professor,and Kyoto University as a Junior Associate Professor, to study how to
decode brain signals from behaving humans and monkeys and enable
the control of robots and computers by the brain. Now he is working
as a Principal Investigator and Associate Professor at the International
Research Center for Neurointelligence (IRCN) at the University ofTokyo, using his research experience in silico, in vitro, and in vivo, tosearch for evidence of predictive coding and creative problem-solving.

Zenas Chao

̶Jennifer Coates
Professor at the School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield
Jennifer Coates is Professor of Japanese Studies at the School ofEast Asian Studies, University of Sheffield.From 2017 to 2022,
assistant professor The HAKUBI Center for Advanced Research in
Kyoto University(Graduate School of Letters). She is the author ofMaking Icons: Repetition and the Female Image in Japanese Cinema,1945–1964 (Hong Kong University Press, 2016) and Film Viewing
in Postwar Japan, 1945–1968: An Ethnographic Study (EdinburghUniversity Press, 2022), and co-editor of Japanese Visual Media:Politicizing the Screen (Routledge, 2021 with Ben-Ari, E.) and The
Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture (Routledge,
2019 with Fraser, L., and Pendleton, M.). Jennifer is a AHRC
Innovation Scholar and recipient of the 2021 Philip Leverhulme Prizefor Visual and Performing Arts.

Jennifer Coates̶

FUJIWARA Ayano
Associate Professor at Faculty of Economics, Japan University ofEconomics
BA, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo. PhD inEngineering, The Graduate School of Engineering, The Universityof Tokyo. After working as an assistant professor at Osaka Schoolof International Public Policy, Osaka University and as a directorof research at National Institute of Science and Technology Policy,
MEXT, took her current post. Her main research themes include
innovation study and analysis of the effect of job mobility.

FUJIWARA Ayano

̶ARAI Yasuyuki
Assistant Professor at Kyoto University Hospital/L-INSIGHT fellow
2006 MD, Medical Science Department, Faculty of Medicine,
Kyoto University. After clinical training at Kitano Hospital(Tazuke Kofukai Medical Research Institute) and Kurashiki Central
Hospital, completed his doctoral degree in hematology and oncology
at Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University. Subsequently
engaged in immunology research for three years as a postdoctoral
fellow at the National Institutes of Health (USA). After returning
to Japan, worked as a clinical fellow at Hematology and Oncology
Department, Kyoto University Hospital. From 2018 AssistantProfessor at Center for Research and Application of Cellular Therapy/
Department of Clinical Laboratory (formerly Departments ofTransfusion Medicine and Cell Therapy), Kyoto University Hostpital.
Works on the development and application of cell therapy, including
hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

ARAI Yasuyuki