The ASPIRE Program (Adopting Sustainable Partnerships for Innovative Research Ecosystem) aims to strengthen and enhance Japan’s scientific and technological capabilities. It fosters international collaboration in strategically important scientific fields by connecting top researchers from Japan to researchers in advanced STI countries and regions. The program seeks to accelerate the international circulation of talent within Japan’s research community.

In the Japan-Germany joint research field of quantum technologies the project “Diamond spin qubits for quantum applications (DIAMONDQTECH)” has been selected. The project is led by Dr. Takeshi Oshima, Director of the Takasaki Institute for Advanced Quantum Science, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), Japan, and Professor Fedor Jelezko of the Institute of Quantum Optics, Ulm University, Germany. Professor Kosaka will participate as a Co-PI (Principal Co-Investigator) for the research theme “Quantum Communication.”

The project is planned to be conducted over five years.

For more details, please refer to the JST press release.