Availability of Hosting PhD Students in Research Units
Note:
- The list will be updated annually and/or upon a request from faculty.
- The Academic Year starts in September and ends in August.
- Please note Adjunct faculty are available for co-supervision only. Students seeking this co-supervision will still be required to secure primary supervision from a full-time faculty member.
- Please note the below information is indicative only. For already enrolled OIST PhD students, you are encouraged to contact the relevant Unit Professor to discuss the possibility of joining the lab as soon as possible.
- For applicants wishing to enroll in the OIST PhD program, finding placement in a thesis research lab will occur during the first year of enrollment. Therefore, when choosing Faculty of Interest, please check the lab availability one year ahead (for example, if you wish to enroll in 2022, please check the lab availability in 2023). Please note that students are accepted to the OIST program in general and will go through lab matching process before admission to any one lab. It is important to list your Faculty of Interest, but it is not necessary to contact faculty to get their approval or support prior to applying.
| Name | Status | Unit | Academic Year 2021 | Academic Year 2022 | Academic Year 2023 |
| ARBUTHNOTT, Gordon | Full-time | Brain Mechanism for Behaviour Unit | No | No | No |
| ARMITAGE, David | Full-time*(Not yet arrived at OIST) | Integrative Community Ecology Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| BANDI, Mahesh | Full-time | Nonlinear and Non-equilibrium Physics Unit | No | Yes | Yes |
| BOURGUIGNON, Thomas | Full-time | Evolutionary Genomics Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| BUSCH, Thomas | Full-time | Quantum Systems Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| CHAKRABORTY, Pinaki | Full-time | Fluid Mechanics Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| DANI, Keshav | Full-time | Femtosecond Spectroscopy Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| DE SCHUTTER, Erik | Full-time | Computational Neuroscience Unit | No | No | Yes |
| DOYA, Kenji | Full-time | Neural Computation Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| ECONOMO, Evan P | Full-time | Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit | Yes | Yes | |
| FEICHTNER-KOZLOV, Dmitry | Adjunct | Applied Topology Unit | Yes (Co-Supervision only) |
Yes (Co-Supervision only) |
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| FENG, Yejun | Full-time | Electronic and Quantum Magnetism Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| FRIED, Eliot | Full-time | Mathematics, Mechanics, and Materials Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| FROESE, Tom | Full-time | Embodied Cognitive Science Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| FUKAI, Tomoki | Full-time | Neural Coding and Brain Computing Unit | Yes | Yes | No |
| FUKUNAGA, Izumi | Full-time | Sensory and Behavioural Neuroscience Unit | No | Yes | |
| GIOIA, Gustavo | Full-time | Continuum Physics Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| GORYANIN, Igor | Adjunct | Biological Systems Unit | Yes (Co-Supervision only) |
Yes (Co-Supervision only) |
Yes (Co-Supervision only) |
| HIKAMI, Shinobu | Full-time | Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Unit | No | No | No |
| HOHN, Philipp | Full-time | Qubits and Spacetime Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| HUSNIK, Filip | Full-time | Evolution, Cell Biology, and Symbiosis Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| ISHIKAWA, Hiroki | Full-time | Immune Signal Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| KABE, Ryota | Full-time | Organic Optoelectronics Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| KHUSNUTDINOVA, Julia | Full-time | Coordination Chemistry and Catalysis Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| KITANO, Hiroki | Adjunct | Integrated Open Systems Unit | No | No | |
| KIYOMITSU, Tomomi | Full-time | Cell Division Dynamics Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| KONO, Keiko | Full-time | Membranology Unit | No | Yes | Yes |
| KONSTANTINOV, Denis | Full-time | Quantum Dynamics Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| KUHN, Bernd | Full-time | Optical Neuroimaging Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| KUSUMI, Akihiro | Full-time | Membrane Cooperativity Unit | No | No | No |
| LAUDET, Vincent | Full-time | Marine Eco-Evo-Devo Unit | No | No | Yes |
| LAURINO, Paola | Full-time | Protein Engineering and Evolution Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| LUSCOMBE, Nicholas | Full-time | Genomics and Regulatory Systems Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| MARUYAMA, Ichiro | Full-time | Information Processing Biology Unit | No | No | No |
| MASAI, Ichiro | Full-time | Developmental Neurobiology Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| MILLER, Jonathan | Full-time | Physics and Biology Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| MITARAI, Satoshi | Full-time | Marine Biophysics Unit | No | Yes | Yes |
| MYERS, Gene | Adjunct | Algorithms for Eco And Evo Genomics Unit | No | No | |
| NARITA, Akimitsu | Full-time | Organic and Carbon Nanomaterials Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| NEIMAN, Yasha | Full-time | Quantum Gravity Unit | No | No | Yes |
| NIC CHORMAIC, Sile | Full-time | Light-Matter Interactions for Quantum Technologies Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| OKADA, Yoshinori | Full-time | Quantum Materials Science Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| PAABO, Svante | Adjunct | Yes (Co-Supervision only) |
Yes (Co-Supervision only) |
Yes (Co-Supervision only) |
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| PIGOLOTTI, Simone | Full-time | Biological Complexity Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| QI, Yabing | Full-time | Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| RAVASI, Timothy | Full-time | Marine Climate Change Unit | No | No | Yes |
| REITER, Sam | Full-time | Computational Neuroethology Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| ROKHSAR, Daniel | Adjunct | Molecular Genetics Unit | Yes (Co-Supervision only) |
Yes (Co-Supervision only) |
Yes (Co-Supervision only) |
| ROSTI, Marco | Full-time | Complex Fluids and Flows Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SATOH, Noriyuki | Full-time | Marine Genomics Unit | No | No | No |
| SAZE, Hidetoshi | Full-time | Plant Epigenetics Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SHANNON, Nic | Full-time | Theory of Quantum Matter Unit | No | Yes | Yes |
| SHEN, Amy | Full-time | Micro/Bio/Nanofluidics Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SKOGLUND, Ulf | Full-time | Structural Cellular Biology Unit | No | No | No |
| SPECTOR, Daniel | Full-time | Nonlinear Analysis Unit | Yes | Yes | |
| SPEYER, Liron | Full-time | Representation Theory and Algebraic Combinatorics Unit | No | No | Yes |
| STEPHENS, Greg | Adjunct | Biological Physics Theory Unit | Yes (Co-Supervision only) |
Yes (Co-Supervision only) |
Yes (Co-Supervision only) |
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TAKAHASHI, Hiroki |
Full-time | Experimental Quantum Information Physics | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| TAKAHASHI, Tomoyuki | Full-time | Cellular and Molecular Synaptic Function Unit | Yes | Yes | No |
| TANAKA, Fujie | Full-time | Chemistry and Chemical Bioengineering Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| TANAKA, Kazumasa | Full-time | Memory Research Unit | No | Yes | Yes |
| TANI, Jun | Full-time | Cognitive Neurorobotics Research Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| TERENZIO, Marco | Full-time | Molecular Neuroscience Unit | Yes | No | No |
| TORIUMI, Reiko | Full-time | Gravity, Quantum Geometry and Field Theory Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| TOUBER, Emile | Full-time | Shocks, Solitons and Turbulence Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| TRIPP, Gail | Full-time | Human Developmental Neurobiology Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| TWAMLEY, Jason | Full-time | Quantum Machines Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| UUSISAARI, Marylka Yoe | Full-time | Neuronal Rhythms in Movement Unit | No | No | No |
| WATANABE, Hiroshi | Full-time | Evolutionary Neurobiology Unit | Yes | No | Yes |
| WICKENS, Jeff | Full-time | Neurobiology Research Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| WOLF, Matthias | Full-time | Molecular Cryo-Electron Microscopy Unit | No | Yes | Yes |
| YAMAMOTO, Tadashi | Full-time | Cell Signal Unit | No | No | No |
| YANAGIDA, Mitsuhiro | Full-time | G0 Cell Unit | No | No | No |
| YAZAKI-SUGIYAMA, Yoko | Full-time | Neuronal Mechanism for Critical Period Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| YOKOBAYASHI, Yohei | Full-time | Nucleic Acid Chemistry and Engineering Unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| YOSHIDA, Yutaka | Adjunct | Neural Circuit Unit | No | No | |
| ZHANG, Ye | Full-time | Bioinspired Soft Matter Unit | No | No | No |
| ZHOU, Xiaodan | Full-time | Analysis on Metric Spaces Unit | Yes | No | Yes |
Last Updated: 15/February/2021