Awards
| Date | Award | Recipient(s) | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04-11-2025 | FY2025 (18th) Innovation and Environmental Policy Bureau Director-General’s Award Award for Contributions to the Measurement System | Toshihide Ihara | Recognized for outstanding contributions to the operation of the national measurement system. |
| 20-06-2025 | JSAC Organic Microanalysis Research Group Excellent Oral Presentation Award (92nd Organic Microanalysis Research Group) | Naoki Kuramoto; Yuya Kano; Yuichi Ota; Ikkei Fujita; Akira Okubo; Hajime Inaba; Lulu Zhang; Yasushi Azuma | Realization of the kilogram and contributions to establishing international mass standards. |
| 17-06-2025 | Japan Thermal Spray Society (JTSS) Review Award 2025 | Megumi Akoshima; Satoshi Takahashi (Tokyo Metropolitan University) | Anisotropy evaluation of thermal diffusivity of thermal barrier coatings by the laser flash method. |
| 30-05-2025 | Plasma Spectrochemistry Discussion Group Technical Award 2025 | Yenbei Zhu | Development of an ozone-reaction tandem quadrupole ICP-MS analytical technique. |
| 12-03-2025 | IOP Publishing Outstanding Reviewer Awards 2024 | Ryosuke Kizu | Recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer for 2024 for Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties. |
| 12-12-2024 | physicsworld Top 10 Breakthroughs of the Year in Physics for 2024 | Collaborative research on ultracold positronium (Kenji Ito et al.) | Selected as one of the “Top 10 Breakthroughs of 2024”. |
| 29-10-2024 | The Japan Society of Thermophysical Properties Award 2024 (Paper Award) | Takumaro Shiga | “Ballistic phonon transport analysis of carbon nanotube bundles with different sizes and chiralities.” |
| 29-10-2024 | The Japan Society of Thermophysical Properties Award 2024 (Encouragement Award) | Mekuya Liu | “Development of probe-type and MEMS-type sensors and application to local thermal diffusivity measurements of soft matter.” |
| 16-10-2024 | Good Design Award 2024 (Good Design Best 100) | AIST and Shinei Technology Co., Ltd. | A compact trace-moisture meter for gases developed through collaborative research. |
| 11-09-2024 | The Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry (JSAC) Encouragement Award | Keisuke Nakamura | Elucidation of HPLC retention mechanisms and development of accurate quantification by isotope dilution mass spectrometry. |
| 11-06-2024 | Young Researcher Award (PRESM 2024) | Ryosuke Kizu | Awarded at the International Conference on Precision Engineering and Sustainable Manufacturing (PRESM 2024). |
| 01-06-2024 | The Mass Spectrometry Society of Japan Encouragement Award | Kazumi Saikusa | Contributions to structural studies of protein complexes by native mass spectrometry. |
| 30-05-2024 | The Heat Transfer Society of Japan Toh-Ri (Rising Star) Award | Takumaro Shiga | Contributions to thermophysical properties research. |