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Osamu Jinnouchi, Professor
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The Jinnouchi Lab uses high-energy particle physics experiments to search for unknown new particles and for new physics beyond the framework of current particle theory. Using the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the lab aims to discover physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. Doctoral students stay at CERN for medium to long periods to analyze data, while master's students work on detector research based at the university. Lab visits are accepted at any time.
Kentaro Somiya, Professor
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The Somiya Lab researches the development of key component technologies for gravitational-wave telescopes and tests of quantum mechanics in macroscopic objects. Gravitational waves, predicted by Einstein, are ripples in spacetime, and detecting them requires measuring extremely small changes in distance. At KAGRA, the gravitational-wave telescope in the Kamioka mine in Gifu Prefecture, the lab has been in charge of the design of the entire interferometer. The lab is also pursuing ASPIRE, a Japan-Australia exchange program that aims to build a high-frequency gravitational-wave telescope using quantum control.
Tomohiro Sasamoto, Professor
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Sasamoto Lab studies the properties of nonequilibrium many-body systems and aims to uncover the principles behind them. The lab's subjects are systems in which many particles gather and are in a state away from equilibrium. Fluctuations and randomness are the key concepts of the research. Research on nonequilibrium systems is a field that has advanced greatly in recent years, in both theory and experiment.
Kei Goto, Professor
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The Goto-Ono Lab designs reaction spaces with nano-sized cavities from organic molecules and uses them to control synthesis and reactions. Using bowl-shaped and capsule-shaped molecules, the lab stabilizes unstable reaction intermediates that could not be synthesized before, making them available as compounds that can be isolated and handled. In this way, the lab elucidates the mechanisms of reactions that were once black boxes. In particular, its main targets are compounds containing main-group elements (heteroelements) from the lower part of the periodic table.
Kazuhiko Maeda, Professor
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The Maeda Lab studies photocatalysts that convert the energy of sunlight into chemical energy, in other words artificial photosynthesis. The lab makes semiconductor photocatalysts that split water into hydrogen and oxygen, and photocatalysts that combine metal complexes with semiconductors to fix carbon dioxide. Building on photochemistry, catalytic chemistry, materials chemistry, and electrochemistry, the lab aims to convert sunlight into chemical energy efficiently.
Hidehiro Uekusa, Professor
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The Uekusa Lab studies structural chemistry centered on crystal structures, working with organic crystals such as active pharmaceutical ingredients. By making use of the regular arrangement of molecules in a crystal, it should be possible to control chemical reactions and change the properties of crystals. In organic crystals, molecules are held together by relatively weak forces, so the structure has a "softness" that changes with surrounding conditions and stimuli. The lab's research is based on X-ray crystal structure analysis, combined with thermal analysis, spectroscopy, and theoretical calculation.
Makiko K. Haba, Associate Professor
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The Haba Lab precisely analyzes the chemical composition and isotope ratios of meteorites to study how the solar system formed and evolved. Meteorites are a "recording medium of the universe" that conveys information from the time the solar system had just formed. Centered on dating and combining mineral observation with chemical analysis, the lab investigates when the parent bodies of meteorites formed and how they have changed. The lab aims to depict the history of the solar system along the flow of time.
Yoko Kebukawa, Associate Professor
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The Kebukawa Lab studies where organic matter in space originates and how it has changed. It combines analysis of meteorite and asteroid samples with experiments that simulate space environments. It focuses in particular on how the organic matter that served as raw material for life was formed.
Yuichiro Ueno, Professor
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The Ueno Lab studies how biospheres arose and evolved on Earth and other planets. Using geochemical methods, including analysis of stable isotopologues, the lab has deciphered the changing history of Earth's biosphere from records preserved in sedimentary strata. Because the history from the origin of life to the acquisition of genomes is preserved neither in rock strata nor in genes, the lab is also reproducing Hadean environments in the laboratory. The lab also conducts fieldwork in ancient strata and in present-day hot springs that resemble ancient environments.
Tohru Yagi, Professor
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The Yagi Lab studies biomedical engineering, particularly neural engineering, focusing on the human brain, nerves, vision, and biosignals. The lab aims to understand the mechanisms of the brain and vision and the principles of computation behind them, and to apply that knowledge to medical engineering such as rehabilitation and to biomimetic robots. Currently, the lab is developing "neural interfaces" that connect nerves directly to computers. The lab's motto is "Jishu-Jitoku" (learning and achieving through one's own initiative), and it expects students to take the initiative.
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