MEMBER

Professor: Hidenori Noguchi

Associate Professor: Akihiro Okamoto

City/Country of Origin:: Kanagawa/Japan
Hobbies:: Beach Rugby, Reading, Camping
What are your strong points?:: I like to make a challenge
Motivation towards Science:: Fusing electrochemistry and biology to create new technology.
A few words for future lab mates:: You will like it, if you like a challenge.
Science is…:: my job, but that brings me a lot of happiness.

D3: Huiwen Lin

City/Country of Origin:: Fujian Province, China
Hobbies:: Playing basketball, Swimming, Hiking
What are your strong points?:: Optical spectrum analysis like soft x-ray emission spectrum, raman spectrum and infrared spectrum to reveal material electronic state
Motivation towards Science:: To make better the world life by discovering unknown which might be applied into a real life
A few words for future lab mates:: We have world-class advanced spectroscopic characterization methods, and material characterization instruments. If you are interested in energy conversion, we look forward to your joining. Let’s work together to contribute to solve the emerging urgent energy problems.
Science is…:: Science is a description of the real world ,and concluded uniformly to a human language that can be understood. And the concluded knowledge could be used to build more advanced world.

D2: Katsumasa Matsumoto

D1: Wang Lei

D1: Muralidharan Murugan

City/Country of Origin:: India
Hobbies:: Reading, movies
What are your strong points?:: Friendly, self motivated, openminded, flexible and I will adapt myself to ever changing circumstances, trying to be independent with better resilience
Motivation towards Science:: Science has a immense potential to address many new age problems for a better environment and society.
A few words for future lab mates:: If you are passionate towards science then you would love to be in our research group. Our research group is a perfect platform for acquiring new knowledge and for developing someone as a better researcher.
Science is…:: the only medium for understanding the rules of nature and to raise the human kind out of delusions.

D3: Cava la Euginio

City/Country of Origin:: Italy, Florence
Hobbies:: Listening to music, watching movies, anime and tv-series, playing computer games
What are your strong points?:: I often have new ideas and I have background in various field of science
Motivation towards Science:: Science opens one’s mind to the beauties of our planet and unlock their secrets.
A few words for future lab mates:: don’t give up!
Science is…:: fun, hard and stimulating.

D2: Deng Xiao

City/Country of Origin:: Fujian, China
Hobbies:: Traveling, music, and reading.
What are your strong points?:: Multi-lingual speaker and multi-displine research.
Motivation towards Science:: Understanding of the energy acquisition strategy by anaerobes, especially the sulfate reducing bacteria, in energy-limited subsurface environments, which may even contribute to the finding of extraterrestrial life.
A few words for future lab mates:: We have many cool instruments, and many fun group activities, if you come and join us, you will enjoy the life here very much!
Science is…:: Science is cool, fun, and benefit mankind.

D2: Divya Naradasu

City/Country of Origin:: Andhra Pradesh/ INDIA
Hobbies:: Reading, Travelling
What are your strong points?:: Patience
Motivation towards Science:: My enthusiasm for the science didn't emerge in one crystallizing moment, but rather evolved over time. Science has always been interest to me because of the never ending knowledge.
A few words for future lab mates:: Glad to meet you . Join us! Japan is a really exciting place to live and do science.
Science is…:: science is a process of discovery that allows us to link isolated facts into coherent and comprehensive understandings of the?natural world.

D2: Yoshihide Tokunou

City/Country of Origin:: Tochigi/Japan
Hobbies:: Tennis, Table tennis, Climbing, Manga, Video game, Drinking, etc…
What are your strong points?:: Learning from failure
Motivation towards Science:: I’m now interested in electron transfer reactions between microorganisms and solid substrates. They provide many mysteries covering a lot of research field, and rev my engine.
A few words for future lab mates:: Let’s enjoy science with us.
Science is…:: Fantastic

D1: Junki Saito

NIMS PD: Shuo Yang

City/Country of Origin:: Zhangjiakou City/China
Hobbies:: Painting, travelling
What are your strong points?:: Perseverance, a hard worker
Motivation towards Science:: Curiosity
A few words for future lab mates:: Learn some Japanese, if you are not Japanese.
Science is…:: A way to live your life

NIMS PD: Shu Zhang

City/Country of Origin:: Tianjin/China
Hobbies:: Reading, traveling, running and collecting “pig toys”.
What are your strong points?:: Don’t give up easily.
Motivation towards Science:: I feel satisfied and accomplished when my results are appreciated. I want to show how interesting doing research to the general public.
A few words for future lab mates:: I hope we can learn from each other.
Science is…:: to make unknowns become knowns.

Natsu Maruyama

City/Country of Origin:: Tokyo/ JAPAN
Hobbies:: (1)To sing a song (2)Driving (3) Taking a picture etc.
What are your strong points?:: My strong point is not to get nervous by new people.
Motivation towards Science:: New discoveries
A few words for future lab mates:: I think this lab is comfortable to study/work because the human relationship is good.
Science is…:: New discoveries, including bad sides.

NIMS PD: Elumalai Ganesan

City/Country of Origin:: Tiruvannamalai/India
Hobbies:: Travelling, Cooking, History books
What are your strong points?:: Electrochemistry, Materials Science, Fuel Cells, Hydrogen Production
Motivation towards Science:: New discoveries in Science will continue to create thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure ? Herbert Hoover
A few words for future lab mates:: A better place to learn and experience the Science.
Science is…:: All about solving the problems/answering the questions with evidence.