LIMMS
Laboratory for Integrated Micro-Mechatronics Systems
Date of creation: 1995
CNRS Institute: CNRS Engineering
French director: Sebastian VOLZ
Japanese partner: Institute of Industrial Science (The University of Tokyo)
Japanese co-director: Masahiro NOMURA
Staff: 16 permanent researchers (of which 13 CNRS); 17 Japanese host-professors; 15 postdoc fellows; 6 PhD students
Mirror site: SMMIL-E (Seeding Microsystems in Medicine in Lille – European Japanese technologies against Cancer), Lille, France
Website: https://limms-tokyo.org/
LIMMS team
OVERVIEW
LIMMS is an International Research Laboratory on MEMS and NEMS (Micro- and Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems) between the CNRS and the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Industrial Science. It is located in Komaba Campus, Tokyo, Japan. It was created in 1995 and became a laboratory in 2004.
Research activities are focused on three main microsystems related fields: Biology, Energy, and Quantum & Molecular Tech.
Today, LIMMS is leading a JSPS Core-to-Core Program. LIMMS members are also managing an exploratory PEPR (Programme et Équipement Prioritaire de Recherche) called MoleculArxiv and dedicated to the storage of massive data on DNA; a JST CREST project; as well as 5 ANR (French National Agency for Research) and 4 JSPS Kaken-Hi projects. The SATT (Technology Transfer Acceleration Company) is also supporting a start-up initiative in the Lille branch of LIMMS (SMMILE, France).
In April 2021 started an Integrated Research System (Kiko) of the University of Tokyo having LIMMS at its core and including 55 professors from 7 Institutes and Graduate Schools.
RESEARCH TOPICS
- MicroFluidics
- Bio Hybrid Systems
- Neural Networks
- Quantum Electrochemistry
- Organ-on-chip
- DNA
- iPS Cells
- Sensors
- Energy Harvesting and Management
PARTNERING INSTITUTIONS AND LABORATORIES
IN FRANCE
- CNRS Engineering
IN JAPAN
- Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo
OTHER LABORATORIES INVOLVED
IN FRANCE
- FEMTO-ST (Besançon)
- LAAS (Toulouse)
- C2N (Paris)
- InESS (Strasbourg)
- SATIE (Rennes)
- LETI-CEA (Grenoble)
- EM2C (Paris)
- INL (Lyon)
- ICSN (Paris)
- Institut Néel (Grenoble)
- IMS (Bordeaux)
- LMI (Lyon)
- GREYC (Caen)
- IM2NP (Marseille)
- BMBI-UTC (Compiègne)
- IEMN (Lille)
IN JAPAN
- Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo