Eijiro Miyako's Laboratory
Creation of Game-Changing Technology
PI
Dr. Eijiro Miyako (都 英次郎)
Professor,
Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials,
Advisory Board
Cell Reports Physical Science (Cell Press)
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.jp/citations?user=s5kjeqMAAAAJ&hl=ja&oi=ao
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1157-6174
ResearcherID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/H-1804-2018
Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=22954419400
Short Bio
Eijiro Miyako received his PhD in Chemical Systems and Engineering from Kyushu University (Japan) in 2006. During his PhD studies, he worked as a Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) for one year. Shortly thereafter, he joined the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) (Japan) in 2006, where he began his independent research career.
He also worked as a visiting scientist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) (France) from 2012 to 2013 and at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) from 2017 to 2018.
He joined the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) (Japan) as an Associate Professor on July 1, 2019, and was promoted to Full Professor on October 1, 2024. He also served as an Advisor to the JAIST President from October 1, 2024, and as Research Director at the Research Center for Exponential-Biomedical Engineering (Research Core), JAIST, from 2021 to 2023.
As of April 1, 2026, he is a Professor at the Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University (Japan).
Honors and Awards
1) April 2005: JSPS Research Fellow
2) June 2005: Student Competition Award in The 35th Annual Meeting of the Society of Separation Process Engineers
3) December 2005: Student Competition Award in The Pacifichem 2005
4) January 2006: Award of Excellence in The 1st International Symposium on Functional Innovation of Molecular Informatics
5) October 2009: Young Scientist Award in The 1st FAPS Polymer Congress
6) March 2011: Young Scientist Lecture Award in The 91st Spring Meeting of The Chemical Society of Japan
7) July 2011: Young Scientist Lecture Award in The 57th Polymer Research Symposium
8) June 2012: The Kao Encouragement Award (Chemistry and Physics Fields), The Kao Foundation for Arts and Sciences
9) October 2012: AIST Overseas Research Fellowship
10) March 2014: Royal Society of Chemistry PCCP Prize 2014
11) July 2014: Best Poster Award in NIMS Conference 2014
12) February 2015: Research Encouragement Award in The 47th Fullerenes-Nanotubes-Graphene General Symposium
13) October 2025: Finalist, Science to Startup (S2S) Japan
14) October 2025: Best Seed Science Award, NINEJP
15) February 2026: "Changing Tomorrow" Pitch Competition, Winner, LINK-J and Astellas Pharma Inc.
16) March 2026: Innovation Award, Tech Startup HOKURIKU (TeSH)