JSCC Award for Creative Research 2025
Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry (JSCC) invites candidates for the 9th JSCC Award for Creative Research in 2025. This award is given to researchers in JSCC members who are recognized to have deepen the science related to coordination chemistry through leading and pioneering research, and to have contributed to the development of coordination chemistry. The implementation and selection of this award will be proceeded based on the Rules and additional rules for JSCC Award for Creative Research, and the Rules for Election of Review Committee Members of JSCC Awards. The winner will be awarded at the 75th Conference of JSCC (15th – 17th September, 2025, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan). The rules can be found on the website of JSCC. Applications for this award should be submitted by self-recommendation or recommendation by other JSCC members. The application guidelines are as follows. The application documents must be electronically submitted to the JSCC office no later than 31st March (Mon.), 2025. We are looking forward to receiving many applications.
Application guideline for JSCC Award for Creative Research 2025
1．Qualification requirements
Applicants for this award must have been a member of JSCC for at least 5 years as of 1st April 2025. You cannot apply for this award in combination with JSCC Award or JSCC Research Encouragement Award. In addition, Research Encouragement Award recipients are not eligible to apply for this award based on the same research. The JSCC Award winners are not eligible to apply for this award.
2. Documents to be submitted
(1) Self-nomination: Application form (pdf / word)
Nomination by others: Recommendation form (pdf / word) and approval form the candidate (free format: the candidate’s name should be signed by the candidate).
(2) Statement of achievements (free format): Summary of the candidate’s achievements on about 4~5 pages of A4 size sheets, including figures and tables, and clearly state “how you have deepened science through your leading and pioneering research”. If the applicants have previously received awards from other academic societies, the differences and new developments in your research from the work in the previous awards should be clearly explained.
(3) List of achievements (free format): A list of main papers, reports, reviews, commentary articles, books, etc. that demonstrate the ‘leading and pioneering research’ in the above achievement statements.
• The PDF files of the required documents should be electronically submitted to the JSCC office by the deadline. Once submitted, no replacement of the files will be allowed.
3. Notes on preparing submission documents
(1) Recommended type settings: 11 pt font, 40 lines on A4 paper.
(2) List of achievements: List ‘the papers on leading and pioneering research’ and ‘the papers supporting them’ separately. The lists may be subdivided by research subject. Describe separately the items (articles, reports, review articles, commentary articles, books, etc.) in the lists. As for peer-reviewed papers, you may list in press papers while not those that have been submitted but not accepted yet.
(3) The application form and the recommendation form can be downloaded from the website of JSCC.
4. Review period
The review will be conducted from the beginning of April through the end of June. In addition to the document review, interview with the candidates may be held between early May and the end of June. The exact date, time, and location of the interview will be designated by the Review Committee after meetings with related parties. Note that JSCC will not bear any travel expenses for the interview required by the candidates.
5. Requirements for the awardee
The awardee will be required to submit an abstract for the award lecture published in the abstract book of the 75th Conference of JSCC, and to give the award lecture at the conference. In addition, the awardee will be required to contribute an “Award Account” on the awarded research to the Bulletin of the Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry (BJSCC), which is scheduled to be published in 2026.
6. Others
The “Award Account” published in BJSCC will appear on a website of J-Stage.
7. Deadline for submission, sending and contact addresses
Deadline for submission: 31st March (Mon.), 2025
Sending and contact addresses: Office of the Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry, Institute for Molecular Science, 5-1 Higashiyama, Myodaiji-cho, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8787, Japan
TEL: +81-564-59-5581
E-mail: sakutai(at)ims.ac.jp Please replace (at) to @ for sending an e-mail.
