View the course outline of the Osaka University - NIMS Joint Graduate School Program.

The NIMS Joint Graduate School Program with Osaka University has been formed to guide graduate students towards a doctoral degree. In October 2021, the collaborative program "Materials Informatics Laboratory" was established in the Department of Information Systems Engineering in Graduate School of Information Science and Technology at Osaka University.

The Graduate School of Information Science and Technology was established in April 2002, by consolidating the education and research organizations related to information processing and network technologies.
Among the departments in the graduate school, Department of Information System Engineering has an interdisciplinary academic field, Materials and Information Science, which aims to create technologies for analysis and design of new functional materials using the advanced information processing technologies, as well as technologies for design and construction of advanced information systems using new functional materials. The establishment of the "Materials Informatics Laboratory" will open up new possibilities on research and education in information processing technology that leads to the creation of new functional materials.

Information science and materials science are academic fields of great importance that support today's social infrastructure. As Society 5.0 aims to solve global issues by integrating cyberspace and physical space, a strong need exists to integrate information science for cyberspace with materials science for physical space. The Materials Informatics Laboratory will conduct research and provide education integrating information science and materials science in order to promote data-driven materials research. Materials with new functions will be designed and developed using information processing technology. We aim to foster the development of excellent researchers with advanced knowledge who can embody the fusion of cyberspace and physical space technology into solutions for global issues.