【Press release】Kazuki SHIBANUMA, Associate Professor, was selected for the 2021 JST PRESTO “Nano Mechanics” New Project.
The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) has decided on newly selected principal investigators / researchers and research subjects in the 2021 research proposal recruitment of the Strategic Creative Research Promotion Project and the research theme of Kazuki Shibanuma, Associate Professor, has been adopted.
Strategic goal：「ナノスケールの動的挙動の理解に基づく力学特性発現機構の解明」
Research area：「力学機能のナノエンジニアリング」
Research Summary：北村 隆行（京都大学 理事・副学長）Takayuki Kitamura (Director / Vice President, Kyoto University)
Name：：Kazuki SHIBANUMA
Institution：The University of Tokyo, Department of Engineering,
Position：Associate Professor,
Research subject：Multiscale physics in creep damage at high-temperature
Research period：October 2021 – March 2025
List of adopted projects:
https://www.jst.go.jp/kisoken/presto/application/2021/210921/210921presto.pdf#page=25
PRESTO (Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology) of JST aims to promote fundamental research in fields where a strategic focus of the nation has been placed for generating new innovative technology that leads to the developments of scientific technologies. In PRESTO, under the management of Research Supervisors, JST promotes the independent research of individuals through advice from a Research Supervisor and Area Advisors, providing a place for exchanges among various researchers involved in the same fields of research.
The research area of “Nanoengineering on Mechanical Functions of Materials”, where Prof. Shibanuma has been adopted, aims at the establishment of principles in designing materials of high performance by understanding the mechanisms and mechanics/dynamics of mechanical properties on the nanoscale in order to realise super-smart, sustainable, and well-provided societies. This leads to the eminent advancement of mechanical functions and creation of new functions (nanoengineering) in facilities and devices.
