Grants

2024: Fellows-in-Residence Programme, CY Cergy Paris Université, France. chemical evolution in the interstellar medium through the chemistry of anions in interstellar ices. (Principal Investigator) 

2024: Research Program of Institute for Chemical Research (ICR), Kyoto University, Japan. N2 binding on CpXL3Mo3S4Ni cluster: an ab-initio computational study. (Principal Investigator)

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. 

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)  

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.  (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.  (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)  

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)  

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.  (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.  (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.  (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. (Principal Investigator)