Fellow Testimonials

The following testimonials submitted by Alumni Fellows provide an insight into the scope of the Canon Foundation over the years. If you are an Alumni Fellow and would like to feature on this page, please send your testimonial along with a recent photograph of yourself to us at email.

Lorenzo MARINUCCI

Lorenzo MARINUCCI

My project for this year, 2020 is a philosophical investigation of scent in Japanese culture. I arrived in Japan from Italy a few days before the border closed...

Risa DOMOTO

Risa DOMOTO

A year I spent as a Canon Foundation Research Fellow at University of Strathclyde was great and fruitful for me. I, as a Ph.D. student, wanted to understand how European researchers achieved scientific discovery/innovation...

Elise VOYAU

Elise VOYAU

The six months I spent in Waseda University thanks to the Canon Foundation Fellowship was a wonderful experience. Being a PhD Student in Inalco, Paris, I was accepted as a research fellow in Waseda University under the supervision of Professor Hashimoto Kazumichi...

Ryosei TANIGUCHI

Ryosei TANIGUCHI

I spent wonderful days at the Centre of the 19th Century Historical Researches, the University Paris 1 as a Canon Foundation Research Fellow. I did not only my own research on French modern parliamentary history...

Chris ADENYO

Chris ADENYO

My name is Christopher Adenyo and I am currently a Research Fellow at the University of Ghana. My field of specialization is Animal Genetics. I had my PhD from Kyoto University in 2014 and I continued to collaborate...

Oliver WHITE

Oliver WHITE

I spent a rewarding year affiliated to Waseda University in Tokyo thanks to the generosity of the Canon Foundation in Europe. Despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, the support of Canon Foundation...

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Sho Tsuji

Being able to conduct my experiments at Riken was a great experience. The technical know-how of the lab members helped me tremendously with setting up my experiment, and I was able to take parts of the set-up with me to my new lab...