Tomoko Yagi
Graduate School for Advanced Science and Technology
Materials Science
Laboratory of Photonic Molecular Science
- Academic Year
- Master's Course 2nd
- Hometown
- Osaka, Japan
- Background
- Osaka Kyoiku University Faculty of Education
- University research
- Development of new functional dyes
- Graduate research
- Selective dispersants for semiconducting carbon nanotubes and process development
Why I chose NAIST
I was originally doing chemistry-related research at the College of Education, but I wanted to learn more about chemistry and was considering going to a graduate school of science. I decided to go to NAIST because of the extremely well-equipped research environment with a variety of laboratories and abundant facilities. Another big attraction for me was the environment in which I could easily change my major, since there are many courses in basic subjects and I could learn a wide range of content. Also, since NAIST is only a graduate school, it was easy to make new relationships and I felt that I could relate to people from different backgrounds.
Introduction to our lab.
We research next-generation optical and thermal materials.
This lab is divided into groups for photoreactive materials, chiral materials, and nanocarbon materials. We have a weekly debriefing with the whole lab, and we discuss and advance our research every day.
Number of people in the lab (unit: people)
| Profes sor |
Special Professor | Associate Professor | Assistant Professor | Special Assistant Professor | Doctor Resear cher |
Sec retary |
Technical |
Doctoral Degree |
Master's Degree |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 2（1） | 1 | 1（1） | 2(2) | 7（7） | 8（2） | 15（3） |
※The number in brackets next to the number of researchers is the number of female researchers.
Go to the HP of the Laboratory of Photoinformatics and Molecular Sciences
Events such as welcome and farewell parties, BBQs, lab trips, and year-end parties are annual traditions.
We also hold welcome and farewell parties for international students and interns upon their arrival.
Conference Presentations
Examples of academic societies in which the Photoinformatics and Molecular Science Laboratory participates include
・The Chemical Society of Japan
・Japan Society of Applied Physics (twice a year)
・FNTG Society (twice a year)
・CSJ Chemistry Festa
・The Society of Polymer Science, Japan (twice a year)
・The Japan Society of Photochemistry
・Japanese Society for Coordination Chemistry
They also eat local delicacies.
Daily life
There are women's meetings, etc., where the girls can get to know each other.
There are also Christmas parties and camping trips with classmates, not just girls.
NAIST has students from different universities and majors. Because of this, I feel that NAIST is an environment where it is easy to relate to people from different backgrounds and broaden your horizons. Also, there is a lot of support for changing majors, so you can do research in a different field than you were doing before. Although the percentage of women in the materials science department is small, I have not experienced any particular problems. There are many opportunities to make friends with other students in the same department through orientation upon admission, new student social events, and daily classes. I think NAIST is an environment that is easy to get used to because everyone can start their relationships from scratch.。
I am sure that you will enjoy your research life in the new environment of NAIST, even if it is only for two short years.
(July 2020)
