PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Chemistry in Japan

RIKEN’s Research Center for Environmental Resource Science is seeking a Special Research Fellow for its Bio-Catalysis Research Team at the Wako Campus in Saitama, Japan. This postdoctoral-equivalent role focuses on biocatalysis, interfacial chemistry, and chemical energy conversion. The team develops artificial catalysts inspired by biological systems and builds new energy-conversion and materials-production systems that use or mimic biological functions. Its research explores catalytic reaction...

The Japan Sport Council is recruiting a contract researcher at the National Institute of Sports Science within the High-Performance Sports Center in Tokyo, Japan. The position is based in the Research Division of Sports Science and is focused on research and practical support aimed at improving international athletic performance. The successful researcher will conduct sports-science research, support athletes and performance programmes, and contribute to fitness assessment. Activities include mo...

Technical Transfer Service Co., Ltd. is seeking patent searchers for its Registered Search Organizations Division in Tokyo. The role supports the Japan Patent Office through commissioned prior-art searches for patent examination. Working closely with patent examiners, the searcher will understand the outline of an invention, identify relevant prior art, explain the invention and search findings, report the results, and propose possible directions for examination. The position combines advanced s...

RIKEN’s Center for Computational Science is recruiting a researcher or postdoctoral-equivalent special researcher for the AI for Science Foundational Model Research Team. The position contributes to a JST Advanced AI Science Research Promotion Program project developing a general-purpose materials science platform model. The project focuses on multimodal foundation models that can support scientific research activities such as research proposal generation, experimental design, program developmen...

RIKEN’s Center for Computational Science is recruiting a Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher for the Materials Science Application Interface Platform Development Unit within the AI for Science Platform Division. The work is based at the RIKEN Kobe Campus in Japan and is supported by the JST ARiSE project, “Development of Materials-AI Platform for ‘AI for Materials.’” The project focuses on developing molecular software and theory through foundation models. The researcher will contribut...

Tokyo Metropolitan University’s Kawakami Laboratory is recruiting a fixed-term Special Research Fellow (postdoctoral researcher) or specially appointed assistant professor to join a project on infectious-disease control and age-related disease treatment through cell therapy and exosome therapy. Working with Professor Hiroyoshi Kawakami and in cooperation with the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, the successful researcher will contribute to the development of therapeutic approache...

Osaka University’s Center for Comprehensive Education and Research on Infectious Diseases (CiDER) is recruiting a full-time specially appointed researcher for the Bacterial Physiology Research Unit within the Infectious Diseases and Biological Defense Research Division. The unit is led by Principal Investigator Atsushi Taguchi and studies pathogenic bacteria using molecular genetics, biochemistry, and structural biology. The researcher will investigate bacterial factors involved in cell-surface ...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Spin Photonics Materials at the National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology in Hyogo, Japan. The researcher will join the Advanced Spectroscopy Research Group in the Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, concurrently working with the Spin Photonics Quantum Properties and Functions Group. The project investigates ultra-high-speed non-volatile photoelectric conversion memory for next-generation optoelectronic fusion under the Acquisition, Technology & Logisti...

Osaka University’s Protein Research Institute is recruiting a full-time fixed-term researcher at postdoctoral-equivalent level in the Functional Structure Measurement Group. The position is based in Suita, Osaka, Japan, within a research environment focused on advanced experimental studies of proteins, biomaterials, and material interfaces. The group uses an independently developed and maintained high-field spin-hyperpolarized solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer to investig...