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- 世界経済フォーラムは、最先端の研究への貢献を称え、40歳未満の研究者25名を、ヤング・サイエンティストとして選出しました。
- 2020年は、世界14か国から25名の優れた研究者たちが選ばれました。
- 日本からは、辻 晶（つじ・しょう）氏（東京大学）が選出されました。
- 詳細はこちらでご確認ください。
2020年5月26日、スイス、ジュネーブ – 世界経済フォーラムは、科学的発見の第一線で活躍する非常に優れた研究者25名を 2020年のヤング・サイエンティストとして選出したことを発表しました。
2020年のヤング・サイエンティストは、エビデンスに基づく政策立案の必要性がかつてないほど鮮明となった時期に選出されました。差し迫る地球規模課題への研究が急がれる中、新型コロナウイルスとの戦いが他の研究への注力をやむを得ずそらした感はありながらも、異なる現象が人間や生態的成果に与える影響を試験し、予測し、説明するといった、科学の必要性はこれまで以上に高まっています。ヤング・サイエンティストは、研究の卓越性、リーダーとしての潜在能力、社会への貢献などの基準に従った上で、主要な研究機関の推薦を受けて選出されます。
これらの才気あふれる40歳未満の研究者たちは、児童心理学、化学海洋学、AI(人工知能)など多様な課題における科学の知識の限界を押し広げ、実践を推し進めた成果に基づいて選出されました。
今年の選出者の研究拠点の地域的内訳は、8名がヨーロッパ、7名がアジア、6名が南北アメリカ、2名が南アフリカ、そして2名が中東、選出者全体の半分以上の15名が女性です。
また、日本からは、辻 晶（つじ・しょう）氏（東京大学）が選出されました。辻氏は、乳幼児の社会的環境が将来の読み書き能力の重要な前提となる言語習得に与える影響の解明に取り組んでおり、文化を考慮し、科学に基づいた社会的介入に関する発信を行っています。その他の世界経済フォーラムヤング・サイエンティ スト2020の選出者は以下の通りです。
- Sarah Fawcett (University of Cape Town, South Africa, South African): Fawcett researches the role of ocean chemistry and biology in climate, as well as the impacts of human activities on marine environments using measures of elements such as carbon and nitrogen
- Salome Maswime (University of Cape Town, South Africa, South African): Maswime seeks to understand surgical health systems and causes of maternal death during caesarean section in poorly resourced areas to improve surgical care across populations
- Gao Wei (California Institute of Technology, USA, Chinese): Gao develops skin-interfaced wearable biosensors that will enable analytics through sweat rather than blood, leading to non- invasive and real-time analysis and timely medical intervention
- Francisca Garay (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile, Chilean): Garay is studying what are the most basic building blocks of the universe by developing technologies to accelerate and enhance the capabilities of particle accelerators
- Diego Garcia-Huidobro (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile, Chilean): Garcia- Huidobro uses human-centred design methods to develop sustainable and scalable community-level health interventions in Chile
- Jennifer Ronholm (McGill University, Canada, Canadian): Ronholm is working to strengthen the microbiome of agricultural animals to resist infections in the absence of antibiotics, with the aim of reducing the spread of antimicrobial resistance
- Stefanie Sydlik (Carnegie Mellon University, USA, American): Sydlik designs new materials that stimulate the body's healing response to enable the regeneration of natural bone as an alternative to metal implants currently used to heal bone injuries
- Fatma Zeynep Temel (Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Turkish): Temel uses mathematical models and physical prototypes to test and explore biologically inspired designs, leading to the development of small-scale robots and sensors
- Lee Sue-Hyun (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea, Korean): Lee researches how memories are recalled and updated, and how emotional processes affect human memory, to inform therapeutic interventions for mental disorders
- Meng Ke (Tsinghua University, China, Chinese): Meng seeks to understand the socio-economic causes of population ageing and declining population rates to suggest what public policy measures and innovations can be used to address them
- Shi Ling (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China, Chinese): Shi researches the vulnerability of cyber-physical systems to protect safety-critical infrastructures – such as power utilities and water transportation systems – from attacks
- Wu Dan (Zhejiang University, China, Chinese): Wu is researching technological advances in MRI techniques to improve its ability to detect tumours and stroke, as well as monitor foetal brain development
- Yi Li (Peking University, China, Chinese): Yi researches social-communicative impairments in children with autism in China to develop more precise screening and diagnosis, as well as innovative treatment approaches in the country
- Ying Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, Chinese): Ying’s research focuses on enhancing China's low-orbit Beidou navigation satellite system, which could lead to advances in the commercial aerospace industry
- Celeste Carruth (ETH Zurich, Switzerland, American): Carruth is developing a new 2D ion trap experiment for quantum information processing that is expected to be more reliable and cheaper to scale up than competing technologies and aims to lead to breakthrough quantum computing results
- Nicola Gasparini (Imperial College London, United Kingdom, Italian): Gasparini is developing novel technologies to treat severe and incurable vision problems caused by degeneration of the retina, which affects almost 200 million people worldwide
- Joe Grove (Imperial College London, United Kingdom, British): Grove investigates how viruses enter human cells and evade the immune system to reveal new biology and inform the design of future vaccines
- Philip Moll (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, German): Moll is developing new methods to make micro-scale modifications to material structures with the potential to improve quantum computing
- Mine Orlu (University College London, United Kingdom, British): Orlu is designing patient-tailored pharmaceutical and healthcare technologies that contribute to healthy and independent ageing across the life course
- Michael Saliba (University of Stuttgart, Germany, German): Saliba is developing inexpensive, stable and highly efficient perovskite solar cells that will enable the acceleration of sustainable energy technology
- Andy Tay (Imperial College London, United Kingdom, Singaporean): Tay is developing new technology and materials to engineer immune cells, tissues and systems, with the aim of preventing and treating cancer
- Jan Dirk Wegner (ETH Zurich, Switzerland, German): Wegner develops novel artificial intelligence methods to analyse large-scale environmental data and accelerate humanity’s ability to solve ecological problems
- Joseph Costantine (American University of Beirut, Lebanon, Lebanese): Constantine’s research leverages electromagnetism to design a new generation of wireless communication systems, biomedical sensors and wirelessly powered devices through radio frequency energy harvesting
- Joanna Doummar (American University of Beirut, Lebanon, Lebanese): Doummar seeks to better understand complex underground drainage systems, known as karst aquifers, to better address and solve national water quality and quantity challenges
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