What's Principal Investigator(PI)

Principal Investigators are internationally known world-top class scientists, who take the main role to achieve the MANA research targets and serve as mentors for younger researchers.

MANA has selected Principal Investigators from NIMS and other domestic and overseas institutes.

Nano-System Field — 11 Principal Investigators
Daisuke Fujita

Extreme Field Nanofunctionality Group

See Advanced Scanning Probe Microscopy Group, NIMS

James K. Gimzewski
James K. Gimzewski

Satellite Co-Director, UCLA, USA

Kazuo Kadowaki
Kazuo Kadowaki

Satellite PI, Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan

Kazuhito Tsukagoshi

Pi-Electron Electronics Group

Mark E. Welland
Mark E. Welland

Satellite Co-Director, Univ. Cambridge, UK

Nano-Green Field — 6 Principal Investigators
Kohei Uosaki
Kohei Uosaki

Field Coordinator

Nano Interface Group

See Physical Chemistry Lab., Hokkaido Univ.

Enrico Traversa

Fuel Cell Nano-Materials Group

Jinhua Ye

Nano-Photofunctional Materials Group

See Photocatalytic Materials Center, NIMS

Nano-Bio Field — 2 Principal Investigators