April 2023 - March 2025
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientist: 4,680,000 Yen
Principal investigator
Steering crowds by non-invasive methods using the "nudging" approach: from laboratory to reality (URL)
April 2020 - March 2023
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientist: 4,290,000 Yen
Principal investigator
Development of a system to steer crowds through imperceptible modifications of the surrounding environment (URL)
September 2021
Co-winner of the Ig Nobel Prize on Kinetics
For conducting experiments to learn why pedestrians do sometimes collide with other pedestrians (URL)
March 2018
Recipient of the engineering department dean's prize of The University of Tokyo
Original name: 東京大学工学系研究科長賞（研究）
Award given to few students per year based on results achieved during the study program
January 2025 - December 2029
International Research Network (CNRS, France)
Joint grant
Pushing forward the physics-based modelling of crowds in urban settings to gain insight into some factors of risks for pedestrians and active modes
February 2020
UTEC Mobility Grant: 500,000 Yen
Mobility grant to spend a period abroad (University of Navarra, Spain, guest of Prof. Iker Zuriguel)
June 2016
AI*IA Mobility Grant: 2,000 Euros
Grant from the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence to perform a research project in Italy
April 2016 - March 2017
University of Tokyo international student scholarship: 1'200'000 Yen
Scholarship granted to a limited number of international student in The University of Tokyo
October 2014 - September 2017
SEUT type A scholarship from the University of Tokyo (outstanding candidate): 4'320'000 Yen
Scholarship granted to a limited number of students to cover financial costs during the PhD course