ACSIN-16 & ICSPM34
October 19-23, 2026, Arcrea HIMEJI, JapanACSIN-16 Awards
Nanoscience Prize
Founded at ACSIN-5, the Nanoscience Prize honors scientists who have established outstanding achievements in nanoscience. The Nanoscience Prize of ACSIN-16 is awarded to
Prof. Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
For pioneering work on stacked van der Waals materials with smart contributions to understanding topological and magnetic phases, and in particular the discovery of superconductivity and correlated states in twisted bilayer graphene.
Biography
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero is the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his Licenciatura in physics from the University of Valencia, Spain, in 1999, and his PhD in physics from Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, in 2005. Following postdoctoral research at Columbia University, he joined MIT as an Assistant Professor of Physics in January 2008, received tenure in 2015, and was promoted to Full Professor in 2018.
Honors
Selected Awards
| 2020 | Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize, American Physical Society |
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| 2020 | Wolf Prize in Physics |
| 2020 | Medal of the Spanish Royal Physics Society |
| 2021 | Lise Meitner Distinguished Lecture and Medal |
| 2021 | Max Planck–Humboldt Research Award |
| 2021 | US National Academy of Sciences Award for Scientific Discovery |
| 2022 | Dan Maydan Prize in Nanoscience Research |
| 2023 | Ramón y Cajal Medal, Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences |
| 2025 | Onsager Medal, Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| 2025 | BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences |
| 2026 | Kavli Prize in Nanoscience |
Academy Memberships
| 2022 | US National Academy of Sciences |
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| 2023 | Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences |
| 2025 | European Academy of Sciences |
| 2026 | Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters |
Research Interests
Professor Jarillo-Herrero’s research lies in experimental condensed matter physics, in particular quantum electronic transport and optoelectronics in novel two-dimensional materials, with special emphasis on their superconducting, magnetic, and topological properties.
Previous laureates of Nanoscience Prize
| ACSIN-5(1999) | Don Eigler (IBM) |
| ACSIN-6(2001) | Phaedon Avouris (IBM) |
| ACSIN-7(2003) | Sumio Iijima (NEC) |
| ACSIN-8(2005) | Albert Fert (U. of Paris-Sud and Thales) |
| ACSIN-9(2007) open_in_new | Masaru Tsukada (Waseda University) |
| ACSIN-10(2009) | Walter de Heer (Georgia Tech) |
| ACSIN-11(2011) | John Boland (Trinity College) |
| ACSIN-12(2013) open_in_new | Masakazu Aono (NIMS) |
| ACSIN-13(2016) open_in_new | Paola Castrucci (U. of Rome Tor Vergata) & Paola De Padova (ISM, CNR, Italy) |
| ACSIN-14(2018) open_in_new | Qi-Kun Xue (Tsinghua University, BAQIS) |
Poster Awards
ACSIN-16 & ICSPM-34 Poster Awards will be offered in the two categories on a competitive basis: “Student Award” and “Young Researcher Award”.
If you are a young student, you can apply for both awards. However, if you win the Young Researcher Award, your application to the Student Award will be automatically withdrawn.
You can apply for these POSTER Awards even if you prefer an ORAL presentation for the paper. If you do so, when the paper is accepted as an oral presentation as desired, the nomination will be withdrawn. When the paper is assigned as a poster presentation against your preference, it will be nominated for the award(s).
Student award
The Student award recognizes outstanding poster presentations by students at ACSIN- 16/ICSPM-34. Students regardless their courses are encouraged to apply as eligible. The applicant must make the poster presentation by oneself as the first author. Application can be made after your abstract submission.
The award will be given to a limited number. Each winner will be honored a certificate in the conference banquet.
Winners
- Oct20P-8 Soshi Akita (Tsukuba Univ.)Epitaxial Growth of High-Quality Mn4-xPdxN Thin Films and Demonstration of Magnetization Compensation
- Oct21P-78 Atsuto Enomoto (ChibaTech)Electrochemical Pipette-based Enhanced Raman Spectroscopic Analysis
- Oct20P-38 Wataru Hirayama (Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University)Growth and Electronic Structure of Single-Layer Sb2Te3 on Si(111)
- Oct21P-93 Shogo Kamio (Kyoto University)Structural Analysis of Molten Salt/Solid Interfaces by High- Temperature qPlus Atomic Force Microscopy
- Oct20P-55 Yicheng Ma (Zhejiang University)One-Dimensional van der Waals Heterostructure Field-Effect Transistors
- Oct21P-66 Hexuan Mao (School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Institute of Science Tokyo)Investigating Mussel-Inspired Adhesion Mechanisms by Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy
- Oct21P-116 Shunsuke Mochizuki (Kanazawa Univ.)Development of Method for Analyzing 3D Distribution of Intracellular Mechanical Properties from Nanoendoscopy-AFM Data
- Oct21P-77 Tomohiro Shigeno (Univ. Tokyo)Development of hydrogen-functionalized tips for chemical structure imaging at room temperature
- Oct21P-115 Sana Yoshida (Tokyo Metropolitan University)Sandblasted polystyrene surface modulates the stemness and motility of mesenchymal stem cells
Young researcher award
The Young Researcher Award recognizes outstanding poster presentations at ACSIN- 16/ICSPM-34. Anyone 35 or younger as of October 19, 2026 is encouraged to apply as eligible. The applicant must make the poster presentation by oneself as the first author. Application can be made after your abstract submission.
The award will be given to a limited number. Each winner will be honored a certificate in the conference banquet.
Winners
- Oct21P-28 Aunie Afifah Binti Abdul Mutalib (School of Chemical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Graduate School of Science, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, Kobe University)Deep Eutectic Solvent as Simultaneous Supporting Electrolyte and Structure-Directing Agent in Electrosynthesis of ZnO for Enhanced Visible-Light Chlorophenol Degradation
- Oct20P-42 Masatsugu Nagai (AIST)Formation of Nanoscale-Flat Diamond Trench {111} Sidewalls by Thermochemical Etching Revealed by Cross-sectional TEM
- Oct20P-5 Ryotaro Sahashi (Univ. of Tokyo Eng.)Elucidating Atomistic Polarization Switching Dynamics in Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 via Electric-Field-Induced Molecular Dynamics with Machine Learning Force Fields
- Oct21P-105 Kenta Tamaki (Nagoya Univ.)Engineering Stimuli-Responsive Microtubules through Synthetic Molecular Functionalization
- Oct21P-54 Shigemi Terakawa (Grad. Sch. Eng., Univ. Osaka)Substrate-dependent electronic properties of ultrathin films of transition metal dihalide: 2D van der Waals magnet
Voting
All registered attendees and committee members of ACSIN-16 & ICSPM34 are invited to participate in the official conference voting. Your vote is crucial in selecting “student award” winners and “young researcher award” winners. Announcement of results: Award winners will be honored a certificate during the conference banquet.
- Voting period
Start October 20, 2026 at 5:30 PM (JST) End October 22, 2026 at 9:00 AM (JST) - Eligible Voters
- All registered participants attending ACSIN-16 & ICSPM34.
- Voting Items
- 1. Student award: Outstanding poster presentations† by students
2. Young researcher award: Outstanding poster presentations† by researchers/students aged 35 or younger as of October 19, 2026.
*Only presenters who have entered the respective award competition are eligible for the awards. - Award Selection
- Award winners will be selected by the Award Committee, taking the voting results into consideration.
- Voting Method
- Online Electronic Ballot by way of your account page.
Conditions
Each winner is strongly encouraged to submit to the Focus Collection of Japanese Journal of Applied Physics for this conference (original paper).
* Decisions by the program committee are final and they will not enter into correspondence with individual applicants to discuss their entry or the reasons for their decisions.