The 2006 “Millennium Science Forum” organized by Oxford Instruments held at International House in Tokyo on Tuesday 14th November 2006.

The Millennium Science Forum was established in 1998 to promote scientific exchange between Britain and Japan and award a prize to a young researcher from a Japanese University or research institute who has performed outstanding research in the area of condensed matter science. The prize is named after Sir Martin Wood, Founder and Honorary President of Oxford Instruments plc.

Previous winners of the “Sir Martin Wood Prize” include Dr Yasunobu Nakamura of NEC Corporation, Dr Tokushi Kizuka, Nagoya University, Dr Katsuya Shimizu, Osaka University, Dr Keiya Shirahama, Associate Professor at Keio University, Professor Ichiro Terasaki, Waseda University, and Dr Toshimasa Fujisawa, from NTT basic research laboratories, Dr Yuzo Ohno, Tohoku University and Dr Tsuyoshi Kimura from Lucent technologies.

The Millennium Science Forum steering committee is chaired by Professor Noboru Miura from The university of Tokyo and 6 senior Professors from Japanese Universities sit on the committee.
The “Sir Martin Wood Prize” winner receives \500,000 in cash and the opportunity to give a series of lectures in British Universities, including Oxford University.

The winner of the 2006 “Sir Martin Wood Prize” is Dr Kazutomo SUENAGA from the Research Center for Advanced Carbon Materials at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST).

Dr Suenaga will be awarded the prize and present a lecture on “Electron microscopy and spectroscopy on single molecules” at the Millennium Science Forum.

Key note speakers at the event will include Professor Maki Kawai from The University of Tokyo and Professor Martyn Chamberlain from Durham University in the UK.

Further details of the prize and nomination procedures can be obtained from the Secretariat at msf@oxinst.co.jp or home page www.msforum.jp



Profile of the 2006 Sir Martin Wood Prize winner.

Kazutomo SUENAGA (Ph. D.)
Born on June 15th 1966
Team leader, Research Center for Advanced Carbon Materials,
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

Research Interest “Electron microscopy and spectroscopy on single molecules”

Kazu Suenaga was born in Osaka in 1966. He got his Ph.D in Materials Science at the University of Tokyo in 1994. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mined de Paris (1994-1997) and at the Solid State Physics Laboratory in the University Paris-Sud (1997-1998). Then he joined the Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST) as a researcher (1998-2001) and now is a team leader at National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). He has published over 80 scientific papers and delivered more than 40 invited lectures over the past ten years. A recipient of the Honda Memorial Promotional prize (1997) and the Seto prize (Japanese society of Microscopy 2005). Grantee par Sumitomo Foundation (1997) and CREST-JST (2006). His major research theme involves the atomic level characterization of individual molecules by means of electron microscopy and spectroscopy.

Short CV
1994 Ph. D, the University of Tokyo
1994-1997 Post-doc, Ecole Nationale Supereme des Mines, Paris
1997-1998 Post-doc, Lab. Physique des Solides, Universite Paris-Sud
1998-2001 Researcher, JST-ICORP "Nanotubulites project"
2001-present Team leader, AIST Research Center for Advanced Carbon Materials
2005-present Group leader, JST-ERATO "Nakamura carbon cluster project"

1995 Visiting Scientist, Technion, Israel
2003 Lectureship, Nagoya University
Lectureship, Tohoku University

Millennium Science Forum Steering Committee:-

Professor Noboru Miura (Chairman)
Emeritus Professor, The University of Tokyo
Professor Hidetoshi Fukuyama
Department of Applied Physics, Tokyo University of Science
Professor Koichi Kitazawa
Vice President, Japan Science and Technology Corporation
Professor Yasuo Endo
Emeritus Professor, Tohoku University
Professor Tomoji Kawai
The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University
Professor Seigo Tarucha
Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo
Professor Yoshinori Tokura
Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo

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