JSCC Distinguished Service Award 2025

Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry (JSCC) invites candidates for the 18th JSCC Distinguished Service Award in 2025. This award is given to researchers in JSCC who are recognized to provide outstanding achievements and longstanding contributions 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 Distinguished Service Award, 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 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 Distinguished Service Award 2025

1．Qualification requirements

Applicants for this award must have been a member of JSCC for at least 20 years as of April 1st, 2025 (including the period of membership of the Society of Complex Salt Chemistry and the Society of Coordination Chemistry). You cannot apply for this award in combination with other awards from JSCC.

2. Documents to be submitted

(1) Self-nomination: Application form (pdf / word)
  Nomination by others: Recommendation letter (pdf / word) and approval by the candidate (free format: the candidate’s name should be signed by the candidate).
(2) Statement of accomplishments and achievements (free format): Summary of the candidate’s achievements on about 5 pages of A4 papers, including figures and tables, etc.
(3) List of accomplishments and achievements (free format): A list of main papers, reports, review articles, commentary articles, books, history of activities in JSCC, etc.
• 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 accomplishments and achievements: Describe separately the items (articles, reports, review articles, commentary articles, books, history of activities in JSCC, etc.) 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 middle April through the end of June. In addition to the document review, interview with the candidates or the nominators may be held between the middle 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 or the nominators.

5. 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.