The 1st GREEN Prize (FY2011)

The GREEN Prize is established the FY2011 to encourage and recognize the contribution of young researchers who have made excellent achievements in terms of promoting green innovation and addressing the associated challenges.

All research activities of GREEN are evaluated for the award competition. The award is open to all NIMS employees affiliated with GREEN, GREEN open-lab guest researchers and members of participating institutions.

The GREEN Prize 2011 was awarded to the following researchers at the 4th GREEN Symposium held on June 26th, 2012. Highest Award of Innovation was granted to Dr. Takuya Masuda, Award of Innovation was granted to Dr. Yoshinori Tanaka and Dr. Mikio Ito respectively. Program Director Award was granted to Prof. Katsuyoshi Ikeda, Hokkaido University from Prof. Kazuhito Hashimoto, Program Director of GREEN.

Dr. Takuya Masuda

In-situ observation of energy conversion processes at solid/liquid interface using SOR and other techniques

Special Researcher,
Nanostructured Electrocatalyst Group, GREEN

Dr. Yoshinori Tanaka

First-principles calculation collaborated with experiments concerning ion diffusion in the solid electrolyte of the lithium secondary battery

Postdoctoral Researcher,
GREEN Computational Materials Science Group, GREEN

Dr. Mikio Ito

In-situ analysis of solid/liquid interfacial reaction in fuel cell etc.　using vibrational spectroscopy

Postdoctoral Researcher,
Nanointerface Laser Spectroscopy Group, GREEN

Prof. Katsuyoshi Ikeda

Development of novel spectroscopic method for in-situ characterization of energy conversion processes at solid/liquid interface

Member Institution
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University