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RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research
Laboratory for Epithelial Morphogenesis 		Laboratory head: Yu-Chiun Wang Seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher (26-412) Open until filled Kobe
RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research
Laboratory for Epithelial Morphogenesis 		Laboratory head: Yu-Chiun Wang Seeking a Research Scientist (26-402) Open until filled Kobe
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 Advanced Intelligence Project
High-Dimensional Structure Theory Team 		Team Director：Masaaki Imaizumi Seeking a Research Scientist or a Postdoctoral Researcher (26-369) Open until filled Tokyo
RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project
Data-driven Experimental Design Team 		Laboratory head: Ichiro Takeuchi Seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher (26-209) Open until filled Other
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 Sustainable Resource Science
Seeking a Team Director (Principal Investigator, Indefinite-term) (26-344) Aug. 7, 2026 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 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 Advanced Intelligence Project
Chemical Reaction Informatics Team 		Laboratory head: Ichigaku Takigawa Seeking a Research Scientist or a Postdoctoral Researcher (26-207) Open until filled Other
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 Sustainable Resource Science
Biofunctional Catalyst Research Team 		Team Director: Ryuhei Nakamura Seeking Technical staff I or II (26-296) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
Biofunctional Catalyst Research Team 		Team Director: Ryuhei Nakamura Seeking Technical staff I or II (26-295) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project
Geoinformatics Team 		Laboratory head: Naoto Yokoya Seeking a Technical Scientist (26-166) Open until filled Tokyo
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 Sustainable Resource Science
Biofunctional Catalyst Research Team 		Laboratory head: Ryuhei Nakamura Seeking Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (26-173) 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 Computational Science
Data Assimilation Research Team 		Team Principal: Takemasa Miyoshi Seeking a few Senior Research Scientists, Research Scientists, Postdoctoral Researchers or Research Associates (26-116) Open until filled Kobe
RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences
[Female only] Seeking a few Senior Research Scientists, Research Scientists, Postdoctoral Researchers (26-7) Open until filled Wako
Tokyo
Yokohama
Kobe
RIKEN Center for Brain Science
RIKEN CBS-TOYOTA Collaboration Center, Computational Group Dynamics Collaboration Unit 		Unit Leader: Wataru Toyokawa Seeking a Technical Staff I (26-52) Open until filled Wako
TRIP Headquarters
Fundamental Quantum Science Program, Nonequilibrium Quantum Information Theory Research Team (tentative name) 		Seeking a Team Director (Principal Investigator, Indefinite-term) (25-3712) Jul. 10, 2026 Wako
RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science
Emergent Soft System Research Team 		Team Director: Takao Someya Seeking Postdoctoral Researchers (25-3727) 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 Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research
Center Director: Ryoichiro Kageyama Seeking a Senior Research Scientist, Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher (25-3469) Jun. 30, 2026 Kobe
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 Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences
Division of Fundamental Mathematical Science 		Division Director: Satoshi Iso Seeking a few Postdoctoral Researchers (25-3174) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science
Accelerator Group 		Group Director: Osamu Kamigaito Seeking Postdoctoral Researcher, Research & Development Scientist or Technical Staff I (25-3343) 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 Sustainable Resource Science
Cell Function Research Team 		Laboratory head: Keiko Sugimoto Seeking a few Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (25-3342) Open until filled Yokohama
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 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
Data Assimilation Research Team 		Team Principal: Takemasa Miyoshi Seeking a Research Scientist, Postdoctoral Researcher or Research Associate (25-2643) Open until filled Kobe
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 Emergent Matter Science
Emergent Functional Magnetic Materials Research Unit 		Laboratory head: Kosuke Karube Seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher (25-2568) Open until filled Wako
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 Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science
Nuclear Transmutation Technology Group 		Group Director: Hiroki Okuno Seeking a Research Scientist (25-2246) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science
Cross-Divisional Materials Research Program, Strong Correlation Quantum Phase RIKEN ECL Research Unit 		Laboratory Head: Rina Tazai Seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher or Research Scientist (25-2419) Open until filled Wako
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 Computational Science
Discrete Event Simulation Research Team 		Team Principal: Nobuyasu Ito Seeking a Research Scientist, a Postdoctoral Researcher or a Research Associate (25-2245) Open until filled Kobe
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
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
Electronic States Microscopy Research Team 		Team Director: Xiuzhen Yu Seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher or Research Scientist (25-2242) 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 Pioneering Research Institute
Quantum Energy Conversion RIKEN ECL Research Team 		RIKEN ECL Team Leader: Miyabi Imai Seeking a Research Scientist or a Postdoctoral Researcher (25-1697) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences
Laboratory for Transcriptional Regulation 		Team Director: Ichiro Taniuchi Seeking a Research Scientist, Postdoctoral Researcher or Research Associate (25-1577) Open until filled Yokohama
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 Research Scientists, Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (25-1425) Open until filled Kobe
RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing
Quantum Computational Science Research Team 		Team Director: Seiji Yunoki Seeking a Research Scientist or a Postdoctoral Researcher (25-1438) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences
Division of Applied Mathematical Science, Quantum Mathematical Science Team 		Team Director: Tetsuo Hatsuda Seeking a few Postdoctoral Researchers, Research Scientists or Senior Research Scientists (25-1262) Open until filled Wako
Tokyo
Kobe
RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science
Nuclear Chemistry Group 		Group Director: Hiromitsu Haba Seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher, Research Scientist or Senior Research Scientist (25-1253) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science
Nuclear Chemistry Group 		Seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher, Research Scientist, or Technical Staff I (25-919) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Computational Science
Field Theory Research Team 		Team Principal: Yasumichi Aoki Seeking a Senior Research Scientist, a Research Scientist or a Postdoctoral Researcher (25-926) Open until filled Kobe
RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing
Nanophotonic Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics Research Team 		Team Director: Takao Aoki Seeking a few Technical Staff I (25-875) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
Reproductive System RIKEN ECL Research Team 		Laboratory head: Reina Komiya Seeking a few Research Scientists, Postdoctoral Researchers (25-730) Open until filled Yokohama
RIKEN Center for Computational Science
Field Theory Research Team 		Team Principal: Yasumichi Aoki Seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher (25-680) Open until filled Kobe
RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science
Quantum Electron Device Research Team 		Laboratory head: Michihisa Yamamoto Seeking a Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher (25-698) Open until filled Wako
RIKEN Center for Computational Science
AI for Science Platform Division, Life and Medical Science Application Interface Platform Development Unit 		Unit Leader: Yasuhiro Matsunaga Seeking a Research Scientist or a Postdoctoral Researcher (25-654) Open until filled Kobe
RIKEN
FY 2026 call for applications for RIKEN ECL Team/Unit Leaders July 16, 2026 Wako
Tsukuba
Tokyo
Yokohama
Kobe
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