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RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences
Division of Fundamental Mathematical Science 		Division Director: Satoshi Iso Seeking a few Senior Research Scientists, Research Scientists, Postdoctoral Researchers (26-1354) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Brain Science
Brain-Body Interaction RIKEN ECL Research Team (To be established: Dec. 1, 2026) 		RIKEN ECL Team Leader: Tomoe Ishikawa Seeking a Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher (26-1435) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Computational Science
Data Assimilation Research Team 		Team Principal: Takemasa Miyoshi Seeking a Research Part-time Worker I or II (26-1396) Open until filled Kobe
RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science
Nuclear Chemistry Group 		Group Director: Hiromitsu Haba Seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher, Research Scientist, or Technical Staff I (26-1328) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science
Nuclear Chemistry Group 		Group Director: Hiromitsu Haba Seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher, Research Scientist or Senior Research Scientist (26-1327) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project
Succinct Information Processing Team 		Team Director: Yasuo Tabei Seeking a Research Scientist or a Postdoctoral Researcher (26-1239) Open until filled Tokyo
RIKEN Center for Brain Science
Brain-Body Interaction RIKEN ECL Research Team (To be established: Dec. 1, 2026) 		RIKEN ECL Team Leader: Tomoe Ishikawa Seeking a Technical Staff I or Technical Staff II (26-1198) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing
Quantum Information Physics Theory Research Team 		Team Director: Franco Nori Seeking Senior Research Scientists, Research Scientists, or Postdoctoral Researchers (26-1340) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
Catalysis and Integrated Research Group 		Group Director: Mikiko Sodeoka Seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher (26-1316) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science
Accelerator Group 		Group Director: Osamu Kamigaito Seeking Postdoctoral Researcher or Technical Staff I (26-1255) Nov. 5, 2026 Wako
RIKEN Center for Brain Science
Laboratory for Brain Resilience 		Team Director: Emi Ling Seeking a Research Part-time Worker I (26-1311) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project
Geoinformatics Team 		Team Director: Naoto Yokoya Seeking Postdoctoral Researchers (26-1238) Open until filled
RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project
Computational Physics Machine Learning Team 		Team Director: Takaharu Yaguchi Seeking a Research Scientist or a Postdoctoral Researcher (26-1237) Open until filled Other
RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing
Nanophotonic Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics Research Team 		Team Director: Takao Aoki Seeking a few Technical Staff I (26-1215) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
Biofunctional Catalyst Research Team 		Team Director: Ryuhei Nakamura Seeking a Research Scientist (26-1150) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research
Laboratory for Developmental Dynamics 		Team Director: Shuichi Onami Seeking a Research Scientist, Postdoctoral Researcher, or Technical Scientist (26-1065) Open until filled Kobe
RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research
Laboratory for multimodal AI framework 		Team Director: Ryosuke Kojima Seeking a few Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (26-996) Open until filled Kobe
RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research
Center Director: Ryoichiro Kageyama Seeking a Senior Research Scientist, Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher (26-750) Nov. 30, 2026 Kobe
RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
Cambial Stem Cell System RIKEN ECL Research Unit 		RIKEN ECL Unit Leader: Dongbo Shi Seeking Research Part-time Worker II (26-990) Open until filled Yokohama
RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science
Accelerator Group 		Group Director: Osamu Kamigaito Seeking Postdoctoral Researcher or Research & Development Scientist (26-941) Oct. 30, 2026 Wako
RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project
Dynamical Systems Learning Team 		Team Director: Yoshinobu Kawahara Seeking a Research Scientist or a Postdoctoral Researcher (26-938) Open until filled Other
RIKEN Center for Computational Science
Learning Optimization Platform Development Unit 		Unit Leader: Mohamed Wahib Seeking a few Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (26-796) Open until filled Tokyo
RIKEN Center for Computational Science
High Performance Artificial Intelligence Systems Research Team 		Team Principal: Mohamed Wahib Seeking a few Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (26-795) Open until filled Tokyo
Computational Science Promotion Division Seeking a few Part-time workers (26-797) Open until filled Other
RIKEN Center for Brain Science
Laboratory for Protein Conformation Diseases 		Team Director: Motomasa Tanaka Seeking a Technical Staff II (26-961) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing
Superconducting Quantum Electronics Research Team 		Team Director: Yasunobu Nakamura Seeking a Senior Research Scientist, Research Scientist, or Postdoctoral Researcher (26-932) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science
Accelerator Group 		Group Director: Osamu Kamigaito Seeking Postdoctoral Researcher or Research & Development Scientist (26-897) Oct. 30, 2026 Wako
RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing
Superconducting Quantum Electronics Research Team 		Team Director: Yasunobu Nakamura Seeking a few Senior Technical Staff or Technical Staff I (26-341) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Pioneering Research Institute
Nonequilibrium Physics of Living Matter Laboratory 		Chief Scientist: Kyogo Kawaguchi Seeking a few Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (26-740) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science
Research Instruments Group 		Group Director: Nobuhisa Fukunishi Seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher (26-808) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science
Nuclear Transmutation Technology Group 		Group Director: Hiroki Okuno Seeking a Research Scientist or a Postdoctoral Researcher (26-753) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Brain Science
Brain Image Analysis Unit 		Unit Leader：Henrik Skibbe Seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher (26-823) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Computational Science
AI for Science Platform Division, Advanced AI Device Development Unit 		Unit Leader: Kentaro Sano Seeking a few Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (26-759) Open until filled Kobe
RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing
Cold-Atom Quantum System Research Team 		Team Director: Sylvain de Leseleuc Seeking a few Research Part-time Workers I or II (26-565) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
Biomacromolecules Research Team 		Laboratory head: Keiji Numata Seeking Postdoctoral Researchers (26-721) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing
Floating-Electron-Based Quantum Information RIKEN Hakubi Research Team 		RIKEN Hakubi Team Leader: Erika Kawakami Seeking a Research Part-time Worker I　(26-631) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science
Emergent Functional Magnetic Materials Research Unit 		Unit Leader: Kosuke Karube Seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher (26-717) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Computational Science
AI for Science Platform Division, Materials Science Application Interface Platform Development Unit 		Unit Leader: William Dawson Seeking a few Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (26-661) Open until filled Kobe
RIKEN Center for Computational Science
Supercomputing Performance Research Team 		Team Principal: Jens Domke Seeking a few Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (26-628) Open until filled Kobe
RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics
Extreme Photonics Research Team 		Team Director: Eiji J. Takahashi Seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher (26-619) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Pioneering Research Institute
Biophenomena Engineering RIKEN ECL Research Team 		RIKEN ECL Team Leader: Makoto Saito Seeking a few Technical Staffs I or II (26-596) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project
Explainable AI Team 		Team Director: Hitomi Yanaka Seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher (26-548) Open until filled Tokyo
RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project
Robot learning team 		Team Director: Takayuki Osa Seeking a Research Scientist or a Postdoctoral Researcher (26-595) Open until filled Tokyo
RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences,
Division of Applied Mathematical Science, AI as Science Team 		Team Director: Masato Taki Seeking a few Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (26-428) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Computational Science
Discrete Event Simulation Research Team 		Team Principal: Nobuyasu Ito Seeking a few Research Scientists, Postdoctoral Researchers, or Research Associates (26-443) Open until filled Kobe
RIKEN Center for Computational Science
Computational Structural Biology Research Team 		Team Principal: Florence Tama Seeking a few Research Scientists (26-437) Open until filled Kobe
RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project
Computational Social Choice Team 		Team Director : Ayumi Igarashi Seeking a Research Scientist or a Postdoctoral Researcher (26-422) Open until filled Tokyo
RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project
AI security and privacy Team 		Team Director : Jun Sakuma Seeking a Research Scientist or a Postdoctoral Researcher (26-372) Open until filled Tokyo
RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project
Imperfect Information Learning Team 		Team Director: Masashi Sugiyama Seeking a Research Scientist or a Postdoctoral Researcher (26-367) Open until filled Tokyo
RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project
Geoinformatics Team 		Team Director : Naoto Yokoya Seeking a Research Scientist or a Postdoctoral Researcher (26-370) Open until filled Tokyo
RIKEN Center for Brain Science
Laboratory for Motor Circuit Plasticity 		Team Director：Aya Takeoka Seeking a Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher (26-308) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics
Terahertz and Infrared Quantum Photonics Research Team 		Team Director: Koichiro Tanaka Seeking a Research Scientist, Postdoctoral Researcher, Technical Staff I, or Technical Staff II (25-3510) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Computational Science
Next-Generation HPC Infrastructure Development Division, Next-Generation HPC Infrastructure System Development Unit 		Unit Leader: Kentaro Sano Seeking a few Senior Technical Scientists or Technical Scientists (25-2253) Open until filled Kobe
RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing
Analytical Quantum Complexity RIKEN Hakubi Research Team 		RIKEN Hakubi Team Leader: Tomotaka Kuwahara Seeking a few Postdoctoral Researchers (26-218) Open until filled Kobe
RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science
Quantum Materials Innovation Research Team 		Team Director: Atsushi Tsukazaki Seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher or a Research Scientist (26-239) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Brain Science
Laboratory for Brain Resilience 		Team Director: Emi Ling Seeking Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher (26-201) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Brain Science
Laboratory for Brain Resilience 		Team Director: Emi Ling Seeking a Technical Staff I (26-177) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing
Optical Quantum Computing Research Team 		Team Director: Akira Furusawa Seeking a few Postdoctoral Researchers or Research Associates (26-15) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing
Nanophotonic Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics Research Team 		Team Director: Takao Aoki Seeking a few Senior Research Scientists, Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (25-3711) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Computational Science
Complex Phenomena Unified Simulation Research Team 		Team Principal: Makoto Tsubokura Seeking a few Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (25-3344) Open until filled Kobe
RIKEN Center for Brain Science
Cognitive Somnology RIKEN Hakubi Research Team 		RIKEN Hakubi Team Leader: Masako Tamaki Seeking a Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher (25-3338) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project
Adaptive Bayesian Intelligence Team 		Laboratory head: Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan Seeking a Research Scientist or a Postdoctoral Researcher (25-3065) Open until filled Tokyo
RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing
Quantum Many-Body Dynamics Research Team 		Team Director: Takeshi Fukuhara Seeking a few Senior Scientists, Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (25-3204) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Brain Science
Laboratory for Neural Computation and Adaptation 		Team Director: Taro Toyoizumi Seeking Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher (25-3067) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Pioneering Research Institute
Biophenomena Engineering RIKEN ECL Research Team 		RIKEN ECL Team Leader: Makoto Saito Seeking a few Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (25-2982) Open until filled Wako
Information R&D and Strategy Headquarters
Infrastructure Research and Development Division, Advanced Networking Technology Unit 		Unit Leader: Katsushi Kobayashi Seeking a few Senior Research Scientists, Research Scientists, Postdoctoral Researchers, Research Associates, Senior Technical Scientists, Technical Scientists, or Technical Staffs I (25-2771) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science
Topological Phenomena Theory Research Team 		Laboratory Head: Shuichi Murakami Seeking a few Postdoctoral Researchers (25-2768) Open until filled Wako
TRIP Headquarters,
Advanced Semiconductor Science Program (ASSP), Processor Design Platform Team 		Team Director: Makoto Taiji Seeking Postdoctoral Researcher or Research Scientist (25-2703) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Computational Science
Processor Research Team 		Team Principal: Kentaro Sano Seeking a few Senior Research Scientists, Research Scientists, Postdoctoral Researchers, or Research Associates (25-2431) Open until filled Kobe
RIKEN Center for Computational Science
Next-Generation HPC Infrastructure Development Division, Advanced HPC Technologies Development Unit 		Unit Leader: Kento Sato Seeking a few Senior Technical Scientists or Technical Scientists (25-2515) Open until filled Kobe
RIKEN Center for Computational Science
High Performance Big Data Research Team 		Team Principal: Kento Sato Seeking a few Senior Research Scientists, Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (25-2457) Open until filled Kobe
RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing
Quantum Information Physics Theory Research Team 		Team Director: Franco Nori Seeking a few Technical Staff I or Technical Staff II (25-2374) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing
Floating-Electron-Based Quantum Information RIKEN Hakubi Research Team 		RIKEN Hakubi Team Leader: Erika Kawakami Seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher (25-2155) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science
Emergent Molecular Function Research Group 		Group Director: Kazuo Takimiya Seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher (25-2241) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing
Cold-Atom Quantum System Research Team 		Team Director: Sylvain de Leseleuc Seeking a few Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (25-2243) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing
Cold-Atom Quantum System Research Team 		Team Director: Sylvain de Leseleuc Seeking a few Senior Technical Staff or Technical Staff I (25-2238) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences
Laboratory for AI-driven Experimental Medicine 		Team Director: Jun Seita Seeking a Senior Research Scientist, Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher (25-1550) Open until filled Yokohama
RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing
Optical Quantum Control Research Team 		Team Director: Hidehiro Yonezawa Seeking a few Research Scientists and Postdoctoral Researchers (25-1940) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project
Information Statistical Mechanics and Dynamics Team 		Laboratory head: Ayaka Sakata Seeking a Research Scientist or a Postdoctoral Researcher (25-2014) Open until filled Tokyo
RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
Molecular Bioregulation Research Team 		Laboratory head: Shinya Hagihara Seeking Research Scientist or Postdoctoral researcher (25-1971) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Brain Science
Brain Intelligence Theory Unit 		Unit leader: Takuya Isomura Seeking a Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher (25-1803) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN
Call for Applications for FY 2027 RIKEN Research Engineer Fellow October 30, 2026 Wako
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