Announcement of winners for the fifth “Marie Sklodowska Curie Award”
Japan Science and Technology Agency
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JST has selected winners for the fifth Marie Sklodowska Curie Award for young female researchers.
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The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) has selected winners for the Fifth Marie Sklodowska Curie Award for young female researchers.
For the Fifth Marie Sklodowska Curie Award, we accepted applications from October 1 to December 10, 2025. Through document screenings and interviews with external experts, we have selected one Grand Prize winner and two Inspiration Prize winners. In addition, considering the efforts of other applicants who meet the criteria for the award and deserve appreciation, we also selected one Recognition Prize winner.
JEOL Ltd. will award 1M yen for the Grand Prize, 500K yen for each Inspiration Prize, and 300K yen for the Recognition Prize. In addition, the Grand Prize winner will be offered an opportunity to visit research institutions in Poland—where Maria was born and raised—through the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Japan and the Polish Academy of Sciences.
The Winners of the Fifth Marie Sklodowska Curie Award
Grand Prize Winner
Yuko Kuroki
Data & AI Researcher, Intesa Sanpaolo AI Research (Italy)
Research field: Information Science
Inspiration Prize Winners
Ami Kobayashi
Distinguished Senior Assistant Professor (Principal Investigator), Department of Medical Science and Innovation, Institute of Medical Research, Tohoku University
Research field: Neuroscience
Sonomi Yamaguchi
HFSP Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Cancer Immunology and Virology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (United States of America)
Research field: Phage Biology, Structural Biology, Biochemistry
Recognition Prize Winner
Mariko Morimoto
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame (United States of America)
Research field: Chemical Biology, Immunology, Cancer Biology
From top left: Dr. Kuroki; top right: Dr. Kobayashi; bottom left: Dr. Yamaguchi; bottom right: Dr. Morimoto.
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Japan Science and Technology Agency
About the Marie Sklodowska Curie Award
JST recognizes the importance of initiatives designed to promote the activities of female researchers in science, technology, and innovation, and based on this belief we established the “Marie Sklodowska Curie Award” in 2021, together with the Embassy of the Republic of Poland, for awarding young female researchers who are expected to flourish across the world. The award’s namesake, Dr. Marie Sklodowska Curie, was recognized for her achievements in her early thirties and later won two Nobel Prizes. The award honors her great contribution and achievements to the development of science and technology, and we hope her example will inspire the ambitions of Japanese female researchers.
While the latter half of the doctoral program and the first few years after obtaining doctoral degrees are the most promising period for female researchers to make great strides as independent researchers, it is also true that they often face various life events during this period. By honoring the achievements of the winners and making them widely recognized, we hope that this award will support them to take a leap forward with their passion and flexibility as well as to foster the next generation of female researchers.
For more information, please refer to the website.
URL: https://www.jst.go.jp/diversity/en/OurEfforts/mscaward/index.html
Five UJI researchers rank among the 300 most prominent women scientists in Spain
Marisa Salanova ranks first among women scientists from Castelló. She leads the WANT research group and focuses her research on the field of occupational health psychology
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The researcher Marisa Salanova, in the center, ranks first among women scientists from Castelló. She leads the WANT research group and focuses her research on the field of occupational health psychology.
Five researchers from the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló in the fields of psychology and chemistry have ranked among the top 300 Spanish and international women scientists working in Spain, according to a ranking based on public Google Scholar profiles and equivalent OpenAlex indicators.
The highest-ranked UJI researcher is Professor Marisa Salanova, while Associate Professor Isabel M. Martínez ranks third among the university’s researchers. Both carry out their research in the field of social psychology within the WANT research team on Psychosocial Prevention and Healthy Organisations at the UJI (www.want.uji.es), which in recent years has focused on occupational health psychology.
Through competitive research projects and consultancy activities for companies on psychosocial risk prevention, training and applied positive psychology, the group promotes psychosocial and financial health in organisations, as well as resilience in situations of crisis and rapid change.
The team has developed the HERO scientific model and several diagnostic tools that make it possible to assess the state of organisations and help work teams proactively and systematically plan best practices and resources to improve tasks, the social environment and organisational climate. According to Marisa Salanova, director of the research team, “this ranking helps increase the visibility of the scientific impact of the research carried out at the UJI in psychology and psychosocial health”.
Cristina Botella, founder of the Psychology and Technology Laboratory (LabPsiTec) and emeritus professor, considered the first Spanish researcher in applied psychology, together with the current laboratory director, Professor of Psychopathology Azucena García Palacios, rank second and fourth among UJI researchers. LabPsiTec investigates the possibilities that new information and communication technologies offer for clinical psychology practice.
For more than twenty-five years, the laboratory has tested tools such as virtual and augmented reality and mobile systems for clinical assessment and treatment. Professor Cristina Botella pioneered this line of work focused on different areas related to health, quality of life and personal and social wellbeing. Professor García Palacios has focused on developing intervention programmes and leading research lines devoted to personality disorders and chronic pain.
Finally, researcher María Ibáñez Martínez, from the Area of Analytical Chemistry, ranks fifth among UJI researchers. She is a member of the Public Health and Environmental Analytical Chemistry research group and the University Institute of Pesticides and Water Resources (IUPA). Her research focuses on the use of modern hybrid chromatography/mass spectrometry techniques (LC-MS), mainly high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS), for the control, identification, confirmation and quantification of contaminants and other organic compounds in environmental, food and biological samples. She also leads numerous GLP studies at the IUPA Pesticide Residue Analysis Laboratory.
The ranking, compiled by Isidro F. Aguillo at the Cybermetrics Lab of the Institute of Public Goods and Policies of the Spanish National Research Council (IPP-CSIC), aims to increase the visibility of women researchers through open-access platforms such as Google Scholar, ORCID and OpenAlex, which provide broader coverage than other bibliometric sources, including subscription-based databases. It also seeks to promote open infrastructures through the wider use of personal ORCID identifiers and institutional ROR identifiers.
The 2026 edition of the ranking includes a total of 12,110 researchers ranked according to the global impact of their research, 122 of whom belong to the public university of Castelló. The full ranking can be consulted in the author’s publication.
Publication
Aguillo, Isidro F. (2026). Ranking de mujeres investigadoras españolas y en España. Edición GS-ORCID OPENALEX Abril 2026. figshare. Preprint. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.32063853.v5
view moreCredit: Universitat Jaume I of Castellón
Five researchers from the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló in the fields of psychology and chemistry have ranked among the top 300 Spanish and international women scientists working in Spain, according to a ranking based on public Google Scholar profiles and equivalent OpenAlex indicators.
The highest-ranked UJI researcher is Professor Marisa Salanova, while Associate Professor Isabel M. Martínez ranks third among the university’s researchers. Both carry out their research in the field of social psychology within the WANT research team on Psychosocial Prevention and Healthy Organisations at the UJI (www.want.uji.es), which in recent years has focused on occupational health psychology.
Through competitive research projects and consultancy activities for companies on psychosocial risk prevention, training and applied positive psychology, the group promotes psychosocial and financial health in organisations, as well as resilience in situations of crisis and rapid change.
The team has developed the HERO scientific model and several diagnostic tools that make it possible to assess the state of organisations and help work teams proactively and systematically plan best practices and resources to improve tasks, the social environment and organisational climate. According to Marisa Salanova, director of the research team, “this ranking helps increase the visibility of the scientific impact of the research carried out at the UJI in psychology and psychosocial health”.
Cristina Botella, founder of the Psychology and Technology Laboratory (LabPsiTec) and emeritus professor, considered the first Spanish researcher in applied psychology, together with the current laboratory director, Professor of Psychopathology Azucena García Palacios, rank second and fourth among UJI researchers. LabPsiTec investigates the possibilities that new information and communication technologies offer for clinical psychology practice.
For more than twenty-five years, the laboratory has tested tools such as virtual and augmented reality and mobile systems for clinical assessment and treatment. Professor Cristina Botella pioneered this line of work focused on different areas related to health, quality of life and personal and social wellbeing. Professor García Palacios has focused on developing intervention programmes and leading research lines devoted to personality disorders and chronic pain.
Finally, researcher María Ibáñez Martínez, from the Area of Analytical Chemistry, ranks fifth among UJI researchers. She is a member of the Public Health and Environmental Analytical Chemistry research group and the University Institute of Pesticides and Water Resources (IUPA). Her research focuses on the use of modern hybrid chromatography/mass spectrometry techniques (LC-MS), mainly high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS), for the control, identification, confirmation and quantification of contaminants and other organic compounds in environmental, food and biological samples. She also leads numerous GLP studies at the IUPA Pesticide Residue Analysis Laboratory.
The ranking, compiled by Isidro F. Aguillo at the Cybermetrics Lab of the Institute of Public Goods and Policies of the Spanish National Research Council (IPP-CSIC), aims to increase the visibility of women researchers through open-access platforms such as Google Scholar, ORCID and OpenAlex, which provide broader coverage than other bibliometric sources, including subscription-based databases. It also seeks to promote open infrastructures through the wider use of personal ORCID identifiers and institutional ROR identifiers.
The 2026 edition of the ranking includes a total of 12,110 researchers ranked according to the global impact of their research, 122 of whom belong to the public university of Castelló. The full ranking can be consulted in the author’s publication.
Publication
Aguillo, Isidro F. (2026). Ranking de mujeres investigadoras españolas y en España. Edición GS-ORCID OPENALEX Abril 2026. figshare. Preprint. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.32063853.v5
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