September 25-30, 2025

International Collaborative Research

The team from Gdańsk University of Technology in Poland (represented by Professor Konieczka) and Kwansei Gakuin University’s School of Biological and Environmental Sciences (led by Professor M. Tsuboi, with cooperation from Professor Y. Ozaki) has secured a major Polish project (1 million Euros, approximately 180 million yen).

 The team from Gdańsk University of Technology in Poland (represented by Professor Konieczka) and Kwansei Gakuin University’s School of Biological and Environmental Sciences (led by Professor M. Tsuboi, with cooperation from Professor Y. Ozaki) has secured a major Polish project (1 million Euros, approximately 180 million yen).

 The funding for this large-scale research was applied for by Professor Konieczka and others at Gdańsk University of Technology in Poland, with cooperation from Professors Tsuboi and Ozaki, to an organization similar to Japan’s JSPS. The theme is amber.

 The research will study the structure, composition, and formation process of amber from the perspectives of paleontology, paleoenvironmental studies, geology, and related fields.

 Kwansei Gakuin University will not receive funds, but postdocs and students from Poland will be dispatched to Professor Tsuboi’s lab.

 The Kwansei Gakuin team will mainly conduct structural and compositional studies using infrared and Raman spectroscopy including imaging. Prof. Tsuboi and Prof. Ozaki also visited Gdańsk Medical University and Gdańsk University.