• Development of Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Reaction Studied by the Observation of Ultrashort-life Species and Transition States Prof. Takayoshi Kobayashi
• Reaction Chemistry of Transition Metal Polyhydride Clusters Prof. Hiroharu Suzuki
• Chemistry of Low-Coordinate Organosilicon and Heavier Group 14 Element Compounds Prof. Akira Sekiguchi
• Pioneering and Developing Studies on Structural Chemistry Based on Fluctuations Prof. Keiko Nishikawa
• Studies on Energy and Environmental Chemistry Based on Photochemistry Prof. Kazuhito Hashimoto
• Creation of Functional Supramolecular Polymers through Molecular Recognition Prof. Akira Harada