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Asian Polar Science Fellowship Program

Facing the challenge from the ends of the world

Asian Polar Science Fellowship Program

The Asian Polar Science Fellowship Program consists of two categories: the Institute Visiting Program and the Field Research Program.


The Institute Visiting Program offers up to 3 months of office space and/or laboratory access at KOPRI’s facilities. The award includes round-trip airfare, accommodation at KOPRI’s facilities, and a moderate stipend. Eligible applicants should be early career or established polar scientist from an Asian country.


The Field Research program offers up to 1 months of logistics support to conduct field research using KOPRI’s facilities, i.e. the Antarctic research stations and the IBRV Araon. Eligible applicants should be early career polar scientist from an Asian country.


Selected candidates will be provided with round-trip airfare, accommodation at KOPRI’s facilities, and logistics support for the visit to the station or to board the IBRV Araon.


* Early career: researchers who are currently enrolled in masters or doctoral programs, or who completed their degree within the last five years

Current and Past Fellows

2019 Fellows

Dapeng Xu

State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, China

Responses of Protist Community to the Melting of Ice Cover and the Potential Influence on Biogeochemical Process in the Western Arctic Ocean

Jinpei Yan

Key Laboratory of Global Change and Marine-Atmospheric Chemistry, Third Institute of Oceanography, China

Collaborative research on the linkage of DMS-CCN-climate in Amundsen Sea and sources of atmospheric sulfur species over Ross Sea

Kohei Matsuno

Hokkaido University, Japan

Spatial distribution of microprotist and mesozooplankton community in the Inglefield Bredning (North Western Greenland)

Larysa Samchyshyna

National Antarctic Scientific Center, Ministry of Education and Sciences of Ukraine

Vertical distribution, community structure and biomass of mesozooplankton in the Bransfield Strait at early austral summer 2018

Suchithra Sundaram

Center for Global Sea Level Change, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE

Antarctic climate variability and feedbacks: Response to the sea surface temperature patterns of the Indian Ocean

Ha Tran Dinh

University of Science and Technology of Hanoi, Vietnam

Polar Microalgae

Mohd Riduan Ahmad

Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka

Characteristics of lightning flashes over Antarctic Peninsula

2018 Fellows

Le Phuong Mai Nguyen

University of Science and Technology of Hanoi, Vietnam

Functional determination of target gene from polar microorganisms

Dieu Linh Nguyen

University of Science and Technology of Hanoi, Vietnam

Enhancement of heterologous protein over-expression of Antartic microalgal CPSs

Sinan Yirmibesoglu

Istanbul Technical University Polar Research Center, Turkey

Sea Ice Obervations Methods and Remote Sensing Analyses

Shuhui Zhao

Key Laboratory of Global Change and Marine-Atmospheric Chemistry, Third Institute of Oceanography, China

The exchange studies about atmospheric nitrogen and trace metals input via dry deposition to the Southern Ocean

Takashi Yamanouchi

National Institute of Polar Research, Japan

Comparative study of atmospheric phenomena (cloud, aerosols and circulation) among Antarctic Peninsula, East Antarctica and the Arctic

Xikun Song

State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, China

Biological Hot Spot for the endemic Antarctic benthic communities: an evolutionary view from the Condarian hydroids and some other invertebrates

2017 Fellows

Thi Thanh Phuong Nguyen

University of Science and Technology of Hanoi, Vietnam

Screening of antibiotics from polar microorganisms

Yen Nhi Phung

University of Science and Technology of Hanoi, Vietnam

Functional determination of target gene from polar microorganisms

Edwin Sien Aun Sia

Swinburne University of Technology, Malaysia

Cross-Biomes (Peat-related) Prokaryotic Community Analysis for potential roles in greenhouse gas release

Yuma Enokido

Tohoku University, Japan

Oxygen isotope analysis of hydrated carbonaceous chondrites

Nur Athirah Yusof

University Malaysia Sabah

Thermal adaptation of psychrophilic yeast in extreme environment: Structural and functional characterization of molecular chaperons related to thermal stress response from an Antarctic yeast, Claciozyma Antarctica Pl12

Ozan Unsalan

Ege University, Turkey

Petrological and mineral chemistry studies on selected Antarctic meteorites in KOREAMET collection

Masataka Shiobara

National Institute of Polar Research, Japan

KOBAYASHI Hiroshi

University of Yamanashi, Japan

Remote-sensing of Maritime Aerosols on board R/V Araon

2016 Fellows

Minh Hoang Duc Pham

University of Science and Technology of Hanoi, Vietnam

Investigation of biogenesis pathway of marine microalgae-derived antioxidant substances in Arctic polar microalgae

Vi Trinh Le Kieu

University of Science and Technology of Hanoi, Vietnam

Understanding the biological roles of Arctic marine microalgae-derived UV-absorbing substance, Mycosporline-like Amino Acids (MAAs), in human cells

Amin Beiranvand Pour

University Technology Malaysia

Geology and remote sensing investigations for structural analysis and lithological mapping in Antarctic Peninsula

Miming Zhang

Xiamen University, China

The exchange studies about DMS shipboard underway measurement method and field obtained data from the southern ocean

Kazutoshi Sato

The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Japan

Predictability studies using additional Arctic radiosonde data

2015 Fellows

Sheeba Nettukandy Chenoli

National Antarctic Research Center, University of Malaya, Malaysia

Teleconnectivity between polar and tropical climate variabilities

Hari Datta Bhattarai

Research Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology, Kathmandu, Nepal

Comparison of secondary metabolites from high mountainous lichens species from Nepal with those collected from the Antarctica by using GC-MS and LC-MS experiments

Noor Haza Fazlin Hashim

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Structural genomics of glycoside hydrolases from glaciozyma Antarctica

Tomoya Obase

Tohoku University, Japan

Noble gas analysis in angrites

Eri Yoshizawa

Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Japan

Identify interplay between oceanic heat and sea ice using year-round ocean mooring data (Identify the overall spatial pattern of the upper ocean circulation by CTD and XCTD observations)

Kenta Suzuki

Hokkaido University, Japan

Application of IP25 to the reconstruction of sea ice history in the western Arctic Ocean during the last 45,000 years