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Hiroshi Yamada, Professor
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The New Materials Development Engineering Lab is a collaborative chair with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), and focuses on piezoelectric and ferroelectric nitrides such as ScAlN and ScGaN. Its theme is materials technology that supports an IoT society and makes 6G possible, such as next-generation high-frequency filters, memory, and sensors. In addition to making thin films by multi-source simultaneous reactive sputtering, the lab develops new materials and clarifies their physical properties using synchrotron radiation, computer simulation, and other methods. The research is conducted at AIST (Kyushu Center).
Naoki Ohashi, Professor
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The Functional Properties Evaluation Lab is a collaborative chair with the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), and studies how to design and control the crystal structure, chemical composition, and resulting electronic states of inorganic materials. By understanding the behavior of impurities and defects in ceramics and thin films, as well as the state of interfaces, the lab aims to realize materials for light-emitting materials, semiconductor devices, sensors, and secondary batteries. Based on solid-state physics and solid-state chemistry, the lab synthesizes crystals, deposits thin films, and evaluates materials using high-resolution electron microscopy and other methods. The research is conducted at NIMS (Tsukuba).
Hironao Sakaki, Professor
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The Quantum Beam Science and Engineering Lab is a collaborative chair with the National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), and conducts research and development on next-generation particle accelerators that use the strong electric fields generated by the interaction of high-intensity laser light with matter. In particular, the lab aims to develop new measurement techniques that combine particle measurement methods with machine learning. Research is carried out at the Kansai Institute for Photon Science of QST (Kizugawa, Kyoto Prefecture).
Kenji Tanaka, Professor
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The Plasma Science Lab is a collaborative chair affiliated with the National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS), and develops methods for measuring high-temperature plasmas confined by magnetic fields and conducts plasma physics research using them. At the Large Helical Device (LHD) of NIFS, the lab has worked on measurements using lasers and microwaves. The lab's website states that LHD experiments were completed in December 2025, and that the lab will now work on analyzing the experimental data obtained and developing measurements for the next device. Research is carried out at the National Institute for Fusion Science (Toki, Gifu Prefecture).
Daiji Kato, Professor
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The Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Science Lab is a collaborative chair with the National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS), and studies from a quantum-theoretical perspective the structure and collisions of the atoms and molecules that make up plasmas and materials, and their interaction with light. Built on three pillars (spectroscopy of highly charged ions, first-principles calculations, and atomic data for heavy elements), the lab pursues research that links fusion and astrophysics. In the master's program, students first attend lectures and exercises at the Chikushi Campus for six months, then move to NIFS to begin full-scale research. Research is carried out at the National Institute for Fusion Science (Toki, Gifu Prefecture).
Shigehiko Tamura, Professor
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The Molecular and Cellular Biology Lab uses the peroxisome, one of the intracellular organelles, as a model to study at the molecular level how it is formed and regulated, and how its dysfunction leads to disease. Peroxisomes carry out many important metabolic functions, and their dysfunction causes fatal genetic diseases. The lab also aims to elucidate the issues grouped under the name "protein kinesis," including how proteins that carry out life processes are sorted and transported within cells, how organelles are formed, and how biological membranes are formed. Professor Shigehiko Tamura's primary affiliation is the Faculty of Arts and Science, with a concurrent appointment in the Department of Systems Life Sciences, Graduate School of Systems Life Sciences.
Taichi Itoh, Associate Professor
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The Chronobiology Lab uses the cnidarian Hydra and the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as its main model organisms to study sleep and circadian rhythms in an integrated way. By comparing organisms with extremely simple nervous systems to model organisms that allow advanced genetic analysis, the lab seeks to uncover the fundamental principles that give rise to these phenomena. Three questions are at the center of the research: "What are the minimum requirements for sleep to exist?", "How did sleep emerge over the course of evolution?", and "Why do animals sleep?" The lab was established in April 2023.
Kunimasa Ohta, Professor
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The Stem Cell Biology Lab studies the mechanisms that control the proliferation and differentiation of stem cells, which underlie the shaping of animal bodies, using neural stem cells in the mouse brain. The lab focuses on the secreted proteins Tsukushi and Akhirin, which it discovered and named, and aims to elucidate the molecular mechanisms that control where neural stem cells gather in the brain. The lab found that when live lactic acid bacteria are taken up by human skin cells, the cells acquire pluripotency, and reported that ribosomes are responsible for this change. The lab also conducts unique research that experimentally tests the endosymbiotic theory, which holds that eukaryotic cells arose when eubacteria infected archaea and began living in symbiosis with them.
Tatsuya Hayashi, Associate Professor
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The Micropaleontology and Paleoceanography Lab studies the taxonomy, evolution, and paleoecology of fossil diatoms in Asia during the Cenozoic (from about 66 million years ago to the present), and how these relate to changes in climate and the environment. The lab also works to reconstruct the history of Cenozoic climate and environmental change through multifaceted research using marine and lake sediments. Recently, the lab has been studying the onset of Northern Hemisphere glaciation about 2.7 million years ago, examining the links among climate, continental ice sheets, and the ocean in the North Atlantic region.
Yoshihisa Abe, Professor
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The Biosystematics Lab mainly studies gall wasps, researching insect biogeography, speciation, and interactions among organisms such as symbiosis and parasitism. As a foundation for this work, the lab also conducts research that identifies biodiversity through phylogenetic analysis and taxonomy. The lab also studies the ecology of the invasive leafminer flies and their control using natural enemies, as well as the conservation of the endangered butterfly Shijimiaeoides divinus (Ooruri-shijimi). Prof. Abe received the Japanese Society of Applied Entomology and Zoology Award in 2016 for research on leafminer flies and their parasitoid wasps.
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