JSCC International Award for Creative Work 2025

Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry (JSCC) invites candidates for the 11th JSCC International Award for Creative Work in 2025. This award is given to researchers with foreign citizenship who are recognized as having contributed to the development of coordination chemistry through outstanding achievements or pioneering research. Candidates should be early career researchers (no more than 15 years post-Ph.D. at the nomination deadline). Selection for this award will be made in accordance with the rules and the additional rules for JSCC International Award for Creative Work. The winner will be awarded at the 75th Conference of JSCC (15th – 17th September, 2025, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan). The rules and the additional rules can be found on the website of JSCC. Candidates will be considered equally, regardless of self-recommendation or recommendation by others. The first round of screening for this award will be conducted from January to February 2025, followed by the second round of screening. The deadline for submission of materials for the first round of screening is 6th January (Mon.), 2025, and the deadline for submission of materials for the second round of screening is 7th February (Fri.), 2025. Please note that these are considerably earlier than the deadline for the other award applications. We are looking forward to receiving many applications.

Application guideline for JSCC International Award for Creative Work 2025

1．Qualification requirements

Applicants for this award must be a coordination chemist with foreign citizenship within 15 years after obtaining Ph.D. degree who is recognized as having contributed to the development of coordination chemistry through particularly outstanding or pioneering research. In the case of self-recommendation, applicants do not necessarily have to be the members of JSCC. In the case of recommendation by others, the person who recommends the candidate must have been a member of JSCC for more than 1 year as of 1st April 2025.

2. Documents to be submitted

• The first round of screening
(1) Brief description of the achievements and contribution to qualify the candidate for the award in 5 – 20 lines.
(2) List of main papers (free format, approximately 1 page of an A4 size paper)

• The second round of screening
(1) Explanation of achievements (free format): Summary of the candidate’s achievements on about 2 pages of A4 size paper, including figures and tables, etc.
(2) List of achievements (free format): A list of up to 10 major papers, reports, reviews, commentaries, and books.
(3) Recommendation form (for a candidate recommended by others) (pdf / word)

• The PDF files of the documents required for the first- and second-round screening should be electronically submitted to the JSCC office by each 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: As for peer-reviewed papers, you may list in press papers while not those that have been submitted but not accepted yet in the list of achievements.
(3) The recommendation form can be downloaded from the website of JSCC.

4. Review period

The screening will be conducted by the end of March. In addition to the document review, interview with the nominators may be held between middle February and the end of March. The selection committee will inform the nominators of the interview schedule. Note that JSCC will not bear the travel expenses for the interview required by the nominators or the travel expenses of the award winner.

5. Requirements for the awardee

The awardee will be required to submit the award lecture abstract to be 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:
First round of screening: 6th January (Mon.), 2025
Second round of screening: 7th February (Wed.), 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.