Research Activities早稲田大学 研究活動

早稲田大学では、独創的研究の推進と国際的な情報発信力の強化を目的として、2014年に早稲田大学リサーチアワードを設け、大規模な研究を主導的に推進している研究者および国際発信力の高い研究業績をあげている若手研究者を表彰しています。

本アワードには、大型研究プロジェクト推進（Large Research Project）と国際研究発信力（High-Impact Publication）があり、それぞれ正賞（賞状）ならびに副賞（大型研究プロジェクト推進は賞金50万円、国際研究発信力は賞金30万円）が授与されます。

早稲田大学リサーチアワード（大型研究プロジェクト推進）受賞者
WASEDA　RESEARCH　AWARD（Large Research Project）
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※前年度実績に基づく

早稲田大学リサーチアワード（国際研究発信力）受賞者
WASEDA　RESEARCH　AWARD（High-Impact Publication）
（５０音順）

内原　卓海
内原卓海氏は、応用言語学の分野において卓越した貢献をしてきている。内原氏は外国語の語彙習得研究を中心としているが、標準的な分析方法だけではなく、独自のアプローチとして介入研究やメタ分析など、それぞれの分析対象に適する多様な手法を用いていることは特筆に値する。
内原氏の論文は国際的に高く評価されており、過去５年間における論文は全て応用言語学分野のトップジャーナルに掲載されており、氏の論文の被引用回数も人文学の分野としては圧倒的に高い。また、この分野のトップジャーナルであるTESOL Quarterlyの編集委員にも名を連ねるなど、国際的なレベルでの学術的評価が高いことがわかる。内原氏は国内外の研究者との連携による研究も多く、今後の共同研究や国際的なネットワーク形成への期待も大きい。さらに、内原氏はその研究成果を社会に還元すべくアウトリーチ活動も盛んに行っていることから、社会的波及効果も大きいと考えられる。このように、内原卓海氏の研究は世界的にも優位性・独自性が高く、当該分野における世界有数の研究者だと言える。

君塚　弘恭
Non-French scholars working on the history of Ancien Régime France can be found around the world, yet Hiroyasu Kimizuka stands out on multiple fronts. By focusing on maritime activities along the Brittany coast in the eighteenth century, Kimizuka has drawn a vivid portrait of shipmasters, merchants, seafarers, and other mercantile actors in the region. Likewise, his recent works on the ports of Lorient and Concarneau are a part of a steady stream of publications that help shed light on regional trade, economic modernization, and the emergence of the so-called Atlantic world.
Kimizuka’s work is textually empirical, meticulous, and technically sound, which reflects his craftsman-like devotion to doing difficult archival work. He has clearly not shied away from getting his hands dirty, as it were, in the local archives and painstakingly sifting through primary documents.
This is the hallmark of a historian who is dedicated to his craft. One reason why such archival research is daunting is because the hard work it entails does not always pay off.
Thankfully, that is not the case here, as Kimizuka’s piece of regional history can be connected to larger themes and issues in the field.
His findings should contribute to our understanding not only of regional French history, but of a much broader Atlantic history as well as a burgeoning overseas French empire. His work suggests how what seems like small-scale provincial commerce was, in fact, embedded in an emerging global trade network that stretched well beyond the immediate setting of Brittany. Moving forward, we expect Kimizuka to fully inject his site-specific studies into broader interpretive debates in his field, especially regarding the tension between internal locality and external expansionism in late Ancien Régime France.
Another reason why Kimizuka is a deserving recipient of the Waseda Research Award is his ability to disseminate his work in French. Non-French scholars of French history tend to publish mostly in their own language, but not so with Kimizuka. By writing extensively in French, including his doctoral dissertation from the University of South Brittany and a full-length monograph, he is able to speak to a larger global audience and make his contributions known more extensively. Furthermore, Kimizuka has succeeded in establishing fruitful partnerships with scholars in France and beyond, which is not always a given for historians.
As one expert noted, “Kimizuka is, in a sense, a local.” For a Japanese scholar of France, this is very high praise indeed.
Kimizuka’s work helps elevate the stature of Japanese scholars within the global French studies community; Waseda should be proud to call Kimizuka one of its own.

センゲニ　アナンタラジ
Dr. Anantharaj Sengeni’s research mainly focuses on electrochemical water splitting, a promising technology for hydrogen production. He studies fundamental mechanism and methodologies that are the basic pillars for establishing new paradigms and succeeding in transformational research. He has established the standards for measuring the electrocatalytic activities and the role of several metals for water splitting electrocatalysis. He has conducted many international collaborations with researchers outside Japan, and his works have been published in a number of top journals in the fields of electrochemistry and materials chemistry. In addition to the high-impact original research works, he has published many perspectives and reviews that have been well cited and read in the international community. Recently, he was selected as a “Highly cited author 2021 (for publishing research in the top 5% of highly cited works from Japanese institutions)” by Royal Society of Chemistry. He has also given many lectures to specialist and non-specialist audience. Dr. Sengeni’s work will be applied to many fields beyond water splitting electrocatalysis and surely have noteworthy social impacts in the future as they are directly related to the ambitious transition into hydrogen economy and net-zero CO2 emission by the global society. 

竹澤　晃弘
竹澤氏は、計算力学や構造最適化を軸足に、トポロジー最適化の社会実装に向けて重要性が近年特に高まっている積層造形法の発展に大きく寄与する独創的な研究を行っている。従来、実験的アプローチが主である積層造形の分野において、理論的な手法も駆使しながら残留変形の解明を行うなど、これまでにない斬新かつ先進的な方法論を展開し、革新的な研究成果を上げている点は高く評価できる。その結果、文部科学大臣表彰若手研究者賞をはじめ、国内外の数多くの受賞歴を有している。この数年間の論文数や被引用回数は同年代の研究者と比較して群を抜いており、その中には海外研究者と共著の英文論文も多数含まれている。それに加え、海外研究者の招聘なども積極的に行うと同時に構造最適化に関する国際会議での実行委員も務めるなど、高い国際発信力も特筆に値する。竹澤氏の業績は、産業界の製造技術の高度化に資するものであり、その社会的波及効果が今後さらに増すことが期待できる。