Grants

2023: Grant from the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) Sakura Science Program. This grant funded seven chemistry students in the Department of Chemistry, University of Colombo to visit the Institute for Chemical Research at Kyoto University in Japan for a research stay. [20360 USD]

2023-2024: International Collaborative Research Program of Institute for Chemical Research (ICR), Kyoto University. On the mechanism of the CO2 reduction catalyzed by cubic [Mo3S4Pd] clusters: a computational study. [8144 USD] (Principal Investigator)

2023: CY Advanced Studies, CY Cergy Paris Université, France. “Systematic mechanistic survey on the formation of complex organic molecules in the interstellar medium. (Principal Investigator) [3393 USD]

2022-2024: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Bilateral Joint Research Project grant (No. JPJSBP 120229901). Predicting radical behaviors on interstellar dust surface: a collaborative theoretical and experimental approach. Open Partnership Joint Research Project between Hokkaido University (Japan) and Gothenburg University (Sweden), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan. [27146 USD] (Principal Investigator)

 2022-2027: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI grant (No. 22H00159). Molecular evolution on the surface of interstellar dust activated by radical diffusion: the key to the production of complex organic molecules. [272619 USD] (Co-Investigator)

2022-2023: International Collaborative Research Program of Institute for Chemical Research (ICR), Kyoto University. Computational mechanistic study on the Co-catalyzed nitrogenase model reactions. (Principal Investigator) [3366 USD]

2022: CY Advanced Studies, CY Cergy Paris Université, France. “Connect computational chemistry, surface science, and low-temperature sciences to study the radical processes on ice” (Principal Investigator) [4344 USD]

2021-2023: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI grant (No. 21H05416) Quantum chemical determination of the complex organic molecules’ formation in the interstellar medium. [35291 USD] (Principal Investigator)

2020-2021: International Collaborative Research Program of Institute for Chemical Research (ICR), Kyoto University. Electronic structure of biomimetic [Mo3S4Fe] clusters and its relation to the catalytic N2-reduction: a computational study. [3800 USD] (Principal Investigator)

2019-2021: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI grant (No. 19K03940). Multiscale modelling of radical diffusion and radical reactions on interstellar ices. [29114 USD] (Principal Investigator)

2017-2021: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI grant (No. 17H06445). Elucidation of mechanism for hybrid catalytic systems based on the automated reaction path search method. [305264 USD] (Co-Investigator)

2014-2016: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI grant (No. P14334). Computational study of the reaction mechanism and selectivity of synthetic chiral metalloporphyrins. [30839 USD] (Principal Investigator)