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A focal point of Tohoku University’s research excellence

Enhancing our capability for strategically
tackling new research themes
Seeking to Create World-Leading
Research Results

Director of CORE RESEARCH CLUSTER for MATERIALS SCIENCE
KOTANI Motoko

What is the Core Research Cluster for Materials Science?: The Core Research Cluster for Materials Science was launched in July 2017, the month after Tohoku University was named a Designated National University by Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), an accreditation that recognizes the university’s competence for providing a world-class education and research system. With “from best in science to best in innovation” as our goal, we are bringing together researchers who have produced top-level results in materials science, physics, chemistry, mathematics and other fields in the University, transcending the boundaries of departments and research fields. Following the tradition of Research First and actively carrying on with the philosophy of Open Doors and the policy of Practice Oriented Research and Education, we are aiming to grow and strengthen our activities, based on creative research, by establishing a Core Research Cluster for Materials Science both in name and reality.

What is a Premier Research Center for Materials Science?: The Advanced Institute for Materials Research (AIMR) was selected in July 2017 as a hub under the World Premier International Research Centers Initiative (WPI), at the same time as Tohoku University became a Designated National University, in recognition by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of its capability and potential for carrying out world-class education and research activities. With “from best in science to best in innovation” as our goal, we are bringing together researchers who have produced top-level results in materials science, physics, chemistry, mathematics and other fields in the University, transcending the boundaries of departments and research fields. Following the tradition of Research First, and actively carrying on with the philosophy of Open Doors and the policy of Practice Oriented Research and Education, we are aiming to grow and strengthen our activities, based on creative research, by establishing a Premier Research Center for Materials Science both in name and reality.

Toward the creation of world-leading research results: The Research Center for Materials Science promotes collaboration between mathematics and materials science and other interdisciplinary fusion research and provides human resources development programs such as the International Joint Graduate Program in Materials Science to develop the next generation of global leaders. In addition, by forming global alliances with world-renowned international research centers and institutes, and serving as a brain circulation hub, we are taking on challenging research themes of growing worldwide importance and contributing to the realization of a sustainable society through innovation.

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Strategic Formation of
Research Centers

Designated National
University and Core
Research Cluster

Top-level Science to
Innovation

Producing research
achievements on the
highest level

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Manifesting Leading Status
- A Global Top-Thirty University

Strategic Formation of Research Centers

Construction of "Research Innovation System"

Designated National University and Core Research Cluster

In June 2017, Tohoku University was named a Designated National University by Japan's Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, an accreditation that recognizes the university’s competence for providing a world-class education and research system. As one of its efforts, the University has integrated the full scope of its outstanding institutional resources in four areas in which it has particular strengths (materials science, spintronics, next-generation medicine and disaster science) in order to establish research clusters that will generate world-class research results and create world-leading pioneering fields of research.

"Top-level Science to Innovation”

Producing Research Achievements on the Highest Level

Core Research Cluster for Materials Science

"Top-level Science to Innovation”

Producing Research Achievements on the Highest Level

"Top-level Science to Innovation”: The Core Research Cluster for Materials Science brings together a combination of five research institutes & graduate schools : (1) Advanced Institute for Materials Research (AIMR), established under Japan's World Premier International Research Center Program (WPI), which has an international presence through mathematics-materials science collaboration, (2) the Institute for Materials Research (IMR), which has been conducting applied research based on theories of materials science for more than 100 years, (3) the Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials (IMRAM), which develops new materials science and technology research, (4) and (5) the Graduate School of Engineering and the Graduate School of Science, which have produced numerous educational and research achievements according to their founding academic philosophies.

Global Alliance & Leaders Development: As the Core Research Cluster for Materials Science, we are building a worldwide alliance with highly renowned international research clusters to serve as a key hub for global brain circulation. Furthermore, in order to develop the global leaders, we have newly launched the International Joint Graduate Program in Materials Science and the Interdepartmental Doctoral Degree Program for Multi-dimensional Materials Science Leaders, and we are promoting the development of global leaders in collaboration with the International Joint Graduate Programs.

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