On July 1, Dr. Masashi Kawasaki, Team Leader of RIKEN Advanced Science Institute were awarded the Honda Frontier Award for the following achievements.
This prize is awarded to the person making the breakthrough discovery or invention in academic or technogical areas through the research either in inorganic materials such as metals, organic materials, and composites materials.
We offer our sincere congratulations to Dr. Kawasaki on this honor.

Dr. Masashi Kawasaki
Team Leader
Strong-Correlation Interfacial Device Research Team
RIKEN Advanced Science Institute

Achievement: Invention of novel photonic and electronic functionalities of oxides engineered in an atomic scale

< Comment from Dr. Kawasaki >
This prize is named after Dr. Kotaro Honda, who is one of the members of RIKEN three-Taro's and founder of IMR (Kin-ken) Tohoku University where I used to belong until last year. It is great honor and pleasure for me. At the same time, this gave me a motivation that I should show Dr. Honda my future achievements in future.

< Brief resume >

1989	D.Eng., University of Tokyo
1989	Postdoctral Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
1989	Postdoctral Fellow, T. J. Watson Research Center, IBM, USA
1991	Research Associate, Tokyo Institute of Technology
1997	Associate Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2001	Professor, Tohoku University
2007	Team Leader, Functional Superstructure Team, RIKEN (-current)
2011	Professor, Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo (-current)