Recruitment
Our group uses multiple approaches from quantum calculations and molecular synthesis to advanced photophysical analysis and device fabrications to clarify new photophysical behaviors and develop state-of-the-art molecular photofunctional materials. If you have skills in chemical synthesis, you can learn more about photophysical analysis and calculations while building on your synthesis skills. If you are familiar with photophysical analysis, you can learn about chemical synthesis and calculation methods. These techniques will be useful for your future research proposals and career development.
Examples of past activities of international students and postdoctoral researchers from countries other than Japan
Our group actively gives opportunities to potentially talented and motivated people from other countries and supports them to report their leading results in the flagship journal.
Dr. Bahadur Sk from India as a Postdoctoral fellow
(April 1 in 2022～current)
B. Sk, S. Hirata, Symmetry-breaking triplet excited state enhances red afterglow enabling ubiquitous afterglow readout, Adv. Sci. 2024, 11, 2308897.
B. Sk, S. Hirata, Förster resonance energy transfer involving the triplet state, Chem. Commum. 2023, 59, 6643-6659, Future Article.
B. Sk, R. Tsuru, K. Hayashi, S. Hirata, Selective triplet-singlet Förster-resonance energy transfer for bright red afterglow emission, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2023, 11, 2211604. Inside Front Cover.
Ende Hopsa Badriyah from Indonesia as a MEXT scholarship Master student
(October 1 in 2021 to September 30 in 2023)
E. H. Badriyah, K. Hayashi, B. Sk, R. Takano, T. Ishida, S. Hirata, Continuous condensed triplet accumulation for irradiance-induced anticounterfeit afterglow, Adv. Sci. 2023, 10, 2304374.
Dr. Indranil Bhattacharjee from India as a Postdoctoral fellow
(April 1 in 2019 to September 30 in 2021)
I. Bhattacharjee, K. Hayashi, S. Hirata, Key of suppressed triplet nonradiative transition-dependent chemical backbone for spatial self-tunable afterglow, JACS Au 2021, 1, 945-954. Front Cover Picture.
I. Bhattacharjee, S. Hirata, Highly efficient persistent room-temperature phosphorescence from heavy atom-free molecules triggered by hidden long phosphorescent antenna, Adv. Mater. 2020, 32, 2001348.
(Position after leaving)
Marie-Curie fellowship in IMDEA nanociencia in Spain
Photophysics of Organic and Hybrid Supramolecular Nanosyste group
https://www.nanociencia.imdea.org/home-en/people/item/bhattacharjee
For Master students and PhD students from other countries
The university has various programs for overseas students at both undergraduate and graduate levels. We are looking for international students to join us.
From 2021, UEC starts two additional programs (MICH and AiQuSci) as MEXT scholarship processes. MICH program. AiQuSci program. When you would like to join in our group as a MEXT scholarship student, we would like to ask you to contact us at least by the end of November. When you pass the initial screening of your application form and a few interviews by UEC, you can start your study in our group as a MEXT scholarship student from October. The Japanese Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) also provides scholarships for PhD students. If you have any questions, please send me an E-mail.
For Ph. D Researchers from other countries
Our university has a support program for overseas post-doctoral fellows, named the “UEC Postdoc program.” The salary is comparable with the scholarships for post-doctoral researchers of The Japanese Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS). Our institute strongly requests that you also apply for a JSPS scholarship when you apply for the UEC scholarship. If either of your applications for the JSPS or UEC scholarships are successful, we can accept you into our lab with access to our equipment and systems to pursue your original research project for a few years. If you have any questions regarding UEC Postdoc and JSPS scholarship, please send me an e-mail. Many research groups are currently focused on photofunctional materials and we are looking for new young scientists to join us.
Collaborative research
We collaborate with the following great groups to increase our research quality;
- Georgia Institute of Technolgy
- Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Kyoto University
- Osaka University
- National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
- Japanese Companies