[visionlist] ICVS Smith-Pokorny Award 2026

[Sérgio Nascimento]

The board of directors of the International Colour Vision Society is
delighted to announce that the recipient of the first Smith-Pokorny Award
(2026) is Dr. Takuma Morimoto. The award, which was established by ICVS to
recognise scientists at an early stage of their careers, was named in
honour of the outstanding contributions of Vivianne C. Smith and Joel
Pokorny to the field of colour vision.
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Dr. Morimoto received his DPhil in Experimental Psychology from the
University of Oxford in 2020, following a Master of Engineering degree from
the Tokyo Institute of Technology (2015) and Bachelor of Engineering from
Chiba University (2013). He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the
Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford.

Dr. Morimoto’s 30+ publications demonstrate a breadth of interests,
technical skills, and creativity, covering topics in colour constancy,
material perception, hyperspectral imaging, illumination measurements and
modelling, colour categorisation, and neural networks. His reach across the
international colour vision research community encompasses impressive
collaborations with prominent groups in not only the UK and Japan, but also
Giessen (Germany) and Braga (Portugal), the latter formed during his tenure
as a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford
(2020-2025). Dr. Morimoto has also served the colour vision community
through organizational and teaching assistance at the ICVS summer school,
committee membership in the CIE and Optica, and feature editorship for a
special issue on Colour Vision (JOSA-A).

The ICVS is delighted to confer on Dr. Takuma Morimoto the Smith-Pokorny
Award for his outstanding scientific contributions to date, and to
recognize also his exceptional promise of future achievements in colour
vision research.



Sérgio Nascimento, ICVS General Secretary

On behalf of the Board of Directors

International Colour Vision Society

www.icvs.info
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