This research is conducted in the interdisciplinary field involving chemistry, biotechnology, and computational science and machine learning, with a focus on materials conversion, catalyst design, and the development of chemical energy production technologies, through an international joint research led by groups mainly from Osaka University and RWTH Aachen University. Particularly, the collaboration between chemistry and biotechnology will lead to the generation of novel catalysts and the development of processes that contribute to sustainable material transformation. This project is now supported by the JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research “KAKENHI”, the promotion of joint international research named “International Leading Research”.

To promote the international joint research, we are actively organizing the joint symposiums at Osaka University and RWTH Aachen University, on-line symposium for young researchers including students, sending and receiving postdoctoral researchers and graduate students between Osaka and Aachen, and sending our young staffs to Aachen for discussions our research projects and training young researchers.