Thank you for your interest in our group!
We have always been looking for international students who are interested in our research. We are very happy to help you to find possibility to joining us and studying in our lab. Please feel free to contact us via Kyoto University Admissions Assistance Office (AAO), or directly send your request and C.V. to us. In the followings, we prepare information and useful links for your consideration of studying in our lab. We look forward to your request.

• Graduate School Admissions
  Shimada Group (Materials Science Laboratory) belongs to the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University. If you wish to apply to our laboratory, please refer to the following information on graduate school admissions.
  
  

  • Entrance Examinations (Graduate School of Engineering)
  • Graduate School Entrance Exams (Department of Mechanical Engineering and Science)

• Study & Research in Our Lab at Kyoto University:
  We have been supervising many students from various countries including China, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, etc. All of them successfully received the master degree within two years, and the Ph.D degree within three years under our supervising. You can always feel free to talk with the supervisors and lab members about your research, study, daily life, hobby, etc. in English. We are pleased to take time to discuss your research problems together to solve them quickly and not to stop your carrier. Studying in our lab, you will be well qualified in materials science, solid mechanics, and mechanical engineering (see RESEARCH page for details). Former Ph.D students have taken up academic posts in universities after they got the Ph.D degree (see MEMBER page for details).
  
  Related URLs:
  
  • Education programs at Kyoto University
  • Admission information at Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
  • Scholarships at Kyoto University

• Living in Kyoto, Japan:
  Your student life in Kyoto will be wonderful! Kyoto is a city of rich cultural heritage with over 1,200 years of history. It is considered to be the spiritual source and cultural center of Japan. The city’s 2,000 shrines, temples, and many other historical buildings are registered as UNESCO World Heritage sites. The city center is also well modernized, so you can enjoy shopping, entertainment, and dining options. In addition, many universities, including Kyoto University, are located in the city, making it a good place for university students to live. Please check the following URLs for details. Japanese tutors in our lab are pleased to help you and your student life in Japan, so you do not need to warry about it at all. As Kyoto University is one of the largest universities in Japan and there are communities consisting of people from your country, you can easily find colleagues and friends from the same country.
  
  Related URLs:
  
  • Living in Kyoto: Kyoto University
  • Study Kyoto (website for foreigners studying in Kyoto)
  • Kyoto City Official Travel Guide
  • Housing: Kyoto University
  • JASSO Guidebook on Studying in Japan

• Laboratory Environment:
  Students in the laboratory can comfortably conduct their research activities at a desk large enough for two standard office desks, with access to the latest computers and multiple large monitors. In addition, they can occupy a large parallel computer server owned exclusively by the laboratory and have access to ample computing resources at any time, including ultra-large-scale parallel computing using a supercomputer.
  All of the laboratory staff have published in the world’s top research journals and are enthusiastic about world-leading materials research and technology development and education through these. The laboratory is equipped with a large meeting space, large monitors and glass whiteboards, making it easy to consult and discuss with laboratory staff and graduate students at any time. Furthermore, weekly research consultation meetings are held, where students can present their own research and discuss it with their fellow group members.
  
  Graduate students are given opportunities to present their work at domesitc and international conferences and have received many presentation awards and conference prizes. All of their research results have been submitted to and published in well-known international journals, and the results of many senior students have been published in the form of papers. The laboratory is also active in research exchanges with experimental and theoretical research groups within and outside the university and in joint research with domestic companies, and there are also opportunities to visit other laboratories and research centres to exchange research with students from other universities.

Thank you for your interest in our group!
For providing the post-doc position in our lab, we are pleased to support you to apply the Postdoctoral Fellowship Programs offered by JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science). Formerly, following professors successfully got the JSPS fellowships and worked with us.

• Prof. Jie WANG (Zhejiang University, China)
• Prof. Jianshan WANG (Tianjin University, China)
• Prof. Hongjun YU (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
• Prof. Pasquale GALLO (Aalto University, Finland)
• Prof. Qi-lin XIONG (Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China)
• Prof. Tao XU (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

We are also happy to work with you if you have already obtained financial support. Please feel free to contact us to find appropriate possibilities to joining us and doing innovative research together. We look forward to your request.

Thank you for your interest in our group!
We have been always looking for international collaborators. If your research background and interest fit our research scope (see RESEARCH), we are very happy to collaborate with you. Please feel free to contact us to find appropriate possibilities to collaborating research topics. We look forward to your request.