This program aims to invite one or two world-leading researchers from overseas institutions (those holding an appointment equivalent to professor or associate professor) to engage in discussions, seminars, and opinion exchanges with particularly the faculty, postdocs, and graduate students of the host department. By hosting a symposium (workshop) as in item 3 below, it seeks to reinforce Nagoya University’s presence in the fields concerned both across Japan and overseas. 

 

 

2019

Dr. Guy Le Lay (Prof. of Aix-Marseille University) and Prof. Ueli Grossniklaus (Prof. of University of Zurich), were selected for this fellowship. While they were visiting Nagoya University, they discussed collaborative research with PIs at Nagoya University. They also contributed to the education of young researchers by giving advice and lectures. Dr. Lay gave a lecture titled “ITER: The fusion project implemented in Cadarache, France” and Dr. Grossniklaus gave a seminar titled “The mechanical basis for the snapping of the Venus flytrap, Darwin’s most wonderful plant in the world.”

 

 

2018

Prof. Jinmyon Lee (Director at Industry and Trade Analysis Division, Korea Institute for Industrial Economics & Trade (KIET)), Prof. Shaker Meguid (Professor at University of Toronto) and Prof. Stephen Michael Playfer (Professor at The University of Edinburgh) were selected for this fellowship. While they were visiting Naogya Univeristy, they discussed collaborative research with Pis in Nagoya University. Also, they contributed to the education of young reseearhres by giving advice and lectures. Dr. Lee gave a lecture “Recent Trends of Environmental Goods Agreement (EGA) and Korean Situation“, Dr Meguid gave a semiar “Multiscale Modeling of Multifunctional Nanocomposites： Opportunities and Challenges” and Dr. Playfer gave lectures 「Matter antimatter asymmery」, “Evidence of Sterile Neutrino” and “Status and prospect for lepton universality violation at LHCb”

 

 

2017

Prof. Nabila Aghanim (CNRS Directeur de Recherche at the Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale) and Prof. Lei Chen (Professor at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) were selected for this fellowship. While they were visiting Nagoya University, they discussed collaborative research with PIs in Nagoya University. Also, they contributed to the education of young researchers by giving advice and lectures. Professor Aghamin gave a lecture “RIKEJO, be Ambitious!!” and Prof. Chen gave a lecture “Human-Power ed Machine Learning”.

 

 

2016

Prof. Enrico Martinoia (Professor of the Institute Plant Biology, Zurich University) and Prof. Jean-Noël Robert (Professor of Philology of Japanese Civilization, Collège de France) were selected for this fellowship. While they were visiting Nagoya University, they discussed collaborative research with PIs in Nagoya University. Also, they contributed to the education of young researchers by giving advice and lectures. Professor Martinoia gave a lecture “Plant ABC transporters: from detoxification to hormone transport” and Prof. Jean-Noël Robert gave a lecture “La hieroglossie japonaise comme modele langagier”.

 

 

2015

Prof. Kirill Ole Thompson, professor and associate dean for Humanities at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences of National Taiwan University was selected for this fellowship. While he was visiting Nagoya University, he undertook a research project called “Relational humanism in early Chinese thought, with implications for agrarian ethics” and gave a lecture titled “Lessons from Early Chinese Humanist Impulses” on September 28, 2015 at Nagoya University

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