Current Affiliation

Affiliation

Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University

Address

6-3 Aramaki, Aoba, Sendai, 980-8578 Japan
Science Complex B 845

Education

  • April 1999: Enrolled at Nagai High School, Yamagata Prefecture
  • March 2002: Graduated from Nagai High School
  • April 2002: Enrolled in the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University
  • March 2006: Graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Physics
  • April 2006: Enrolled in the Master's Program, Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University
  • March 2008: Completed the Master's Program
  • April 2008: Enrolled in the Doctoral Program, Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University
  • March 2011: Completed the Doctoral Program
  • March 2011: Earned a Doctor of Science degree from Tohoku University

Academic Appointments

  • August 2008: Research Assistant, Global COE Program, Tohoku University (Term: August 2008 – March 2010)
  • April 2010: JSPS Research Fellow (DC2) (Term: April 2010 – March 2011, Supervisor: Associate Professor Sumio Ishihara)
  • April 2011: Research Associate, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University
  • April 2013: JSPS Research Fellow (PD) (Supervisor: Associate Professor Yukitoshi Motome, Term: April 2013 – March 2016, fellowship declined for FY 2014–2015)
  • April 2014: Assistant Professor, Koga Laboratory, Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
  • April 2016: Assistant Professor, Koga Laboratory, School of Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology
  • December 2018: Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Yokohama National University
  • January 2019: Concurrent appointment at the Institute of Advanced Sciences, Yokohama National University
  • October 2019: Concurrent appointment as a PRESTO Researcher, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
  • October 2021–present: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University

Part-Time Lecturer

  • December 2020: Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University
  • June 2021: Graduate School of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University
  • December 2021: Graduate School of Integrated Science and Engineering, Chiba University
  • June 2023: Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
  • June 2024: Graduate School of Science, Osaka University
  • September 2025: Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo

Teaching Experience

Tohoku University

Academic Year 2026

  • Physics Seminar [Fall Semester, 3rd year]
  • Frontiers in Science [Fall Semester, International students]
  • Statistical Physics I [Spring Semester, 3rd year]
  • Physics and Symmetry [Spring Semester, 3rd year]

Academic Year 2025

  • Statistical Physics II [Fall Semester, 3rd year]
  • Frontiers in Science [Fall Semester, International students]
  • Physics and Symmetry [Spring Semester, 3rd year]
  • Frontiers of Modern Physics [Spring Semester, 1st year]
  • Intensive Lecture “Fundamentals and Recent Developments in Quantum Spin Liquids” (Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo; contact: Prof. Yukitoshi Motome)

Academic Year 2024

  • Statistical Physics II [Fall Semester, 3rd year]
  • Physics and Symmetry [Spring Semester, 3rd year]
  • Frontiers of Modern Physics [Spring Semester, 1st year]
  • Physics Seminar [Spring Semester, 4th year]
  • Intensive Lecture “Fundamentals and Recent Developments in Quantum Spin Liquids” (Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University; contact: Prof. Mikito Koshino)

Academic Year 2023

  • Statistical Physics II [Fall Semester, 3rd year]
  • Lecture on the Theory of Electrons in Solids [Fall Semester, Graduate]
  • Physics Seminar [Fall Semester, 3rd year]
  • Physics Seminar [Spring Semester, 4th year]
  • Intensive Lecture “Spin and Orbital Physics in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems” (Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Intensive Lecture 1 in Physics; contact: Assoc. Prof. Yuichi Kasahara)

Academic Year 2022

  • Statistical Physics II [Fall Semester, 3rd year]
  • Lecture on the Theory of Electrons in Solids [Spring Semester, Graduate]

Academic Year 2021

  • Intensive Lecture “Physics of Correlated Electron Systems with Orbital Degrees of Freedom” (Graduate School of Integrated Science and Engineering, Chiba University, Advanced Condensed Matter Physics III; contact: Prof. Yukinori Ohta)
  • Physics Seminar [Fall Semester, 3rd year]

Yokohama National University

Academic Year 2021

  • Intensive Lecture “Physics of Correlated Electron Systems with Orbital Degrees of Freedom” (Graduate School of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Selected Topics in Superconductivity Science and Engineering / Special Lecture in Physics I; contact: Assoc. Prof. Kazumasa Hattori)
  • Introduction to Condensed Matter Physics [Fall Semester, Graduate]
  • Laboratory and Information Exercises in Physics and Applied Physics II [Spring Semester, 2nd year]
  • Introduction to Physics and Applied Physics [Spring Semester, 1st year]

Academic Year 2020

  • Intensive Lecture “Physics of Correlated Electron Systems with Orbital Degrees of Freedom” (Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering / Department of Physical Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, Nagoya University; contact: Prof. Hiroshi Sawa)
  • Graduation Research [Full Year, 4th year]
  • Advanced Physics Seminar [Full Year, 4th year]
  • Presentation Exercise [Fall Semester, 3rd year]
  • Laboratory and Information Exercises in Physics and Applied Physics II [Spring Semester, 2nd year]
  • Introduction to Physics and Applied Physics [Spring Semester, 1st year]

Academic Year 2019

  • Introduction to Condensed Matter Physics [Fall Semester, Graduate]
  • Graduation Research [Full Year, 4th year]
  • Advanced Physics Seminar [Full Year, 4th year]
  • Presentation Exercise [Fall Semester, 3rd year]
  • Laboratory and Information Exercises in Physics and Applied Physics II [Spring Semester, 2nd year]

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Academic Year 2018

  • Quantum Mechanics III (Exercise) [3rd Quarter, 3rd year]
  • Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (Exercise) [3rd Quarter, 2nd year]
  • Exercises in Classical Mechanics [2nd Quarter, 2nd year]
  • Statistical Mechanics II (Exercise) [1st Quarter, 3rd year]

Academic Year 2017

  • Quantum Mechanics II (Exercise) [4th Quarter, 2nd year]
  • Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (Exercise) [3rd Quarter, 2nd year]
  • Exercises in Classical Mechanics [2nd Quarter, 2nd year]

Academic Year 2016

  • Exercises in Quantum Mechanics II [B] [4th Quarter, 2nd year]
  • Exercises in Quantum Mechanics I [B] [3rd Quarter, 2nd year]

Academic Year 2015

  • Exercises in Quantum Mechanics I [B] [Fall Semester, 2nd year]
  • Exercises in Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics II [A] [Spring Semester, 3rd year]

Academic Year 2014

  • Exercises in Quantum Mechanics I [B] [Fall Semester, 2nd year]
  • Exercises in Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics II [A] [Spring Semester, 3rd year]

Tohoku University

Academic Year 2012

  • Frontiers of Physics [Fall Semester, 1st year]
  • Exercises in Quantum Mechanics II [Spring Semester, 3rd year]

Grants

  • April 2010–March 2012 (funding for FY2011 declined)
    “Theory of Frustration Effects and Quantum Phenomena Characteristic of Orbitally Degenerate Systems”
    (JSPS KAKENHI, Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows; Principal Investigator)
  • April 2013–March 2016 (funding for FY2014 and FY2015 declined)
    “Correlation Effects and Charge Dynamics in d-Electron Systems with Non-Kramers States”
    (JSPS KAKENHI, Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows; Principal Investigator)
  • February 2015–February 2016
    “Topological Thermal Transport in Quantum Spin Liquids”
    (Support Program for Discovering Research Seeds, Tokyo Institute of Technology; Principal Investigator)
  • April 2015–March 2018
    “Numerical Study of Quantum Spin Systems Based on the Majorana Fermion Picture”
    (JSPS KAKENHI, Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research; Co-Investigator)
  • April 2016–March 2018
    “Majorana Dynamics and Its Topology Inherent in Quantum Spin Systems”
    (JSPS KAKENHI, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a Proposed Research Area), Publicly Offered Research; Principal Investigator)
  • April 2016–March 2020
    “Exploration of Quantum Spin Liquids by Fractionalization of Spins”
    (JSPS KAKENHI, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A); Co-Investigator)
  • April 2016–March 2020 (funding for FY2019 declined)
    “Study of Exotic Quantum States Emergent from Strong Spin-Orbit Coupling on the Basis of Exactly Solvable Models”
    (JSPS KAKENHI, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B); Principal Investigator)
  • April 2018–March 2020
    “Stability and Control of Topological Properties of Emergent Quasiparticles in Quantum Spin Liquids”
    (JSPS KAKENHI, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a Proposed Research Area), Publicly Offered Research; Principal Investigator)
  • December 2018–March 2020
    Research Fund, Leading Initiative for Excellent Young Researchers (LEADER)
    (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT))
  • December 2018–March 2023
    Research Environment Improvement Fund, Leading Initiative for Excellent Young Researchers (LEADER)
    (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT))
  • April 2019–March 2024
    “Nonequilibrium Magnetic Dynamics Reflecting Quasiparticle Excitations in Quantum Spin Liquids”
    (JSPS KAKENHI, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C); Principal Investigator)
  • October 2019–March 2023
    “Spatiotemporal Manipulation of Elementary Excitations in Quantum Topological Magnets”
    (JST PRESTO, “Topological Materials Science for Creation of Innovative Functions”; Principal Investigator)
  • April 2020–March 2025
    “Creation and Control of Majorana Particles in Quantum Spin Liquids”
    (JSPS KAKENHI, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A); Co-Investigator)
  • April 2022–March 2025
    “Exploration of Novel Quantum Phases by Controlling Nonmagnetic Sites in Honeycomb Magnets Using High-Pressure Synthesis”
    (JSPS KAKENHI, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B); Co-Investigator)
  • April 2023–March 2026
    “Study of Novel Cross-Correlated Responses in Organic and Inorganic Strongly Correlated Systems Enabled by Nonrelativistic Spin-Orbit Coupling”
    (JSPS KAKENHI, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B); Co-Investigator)
  • April 2023–March 2028
    “Promotion of the 1000-Tesla Science”
    (JSPS KAKENHI, Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A); Co-Investigator)
  • April 2023–March 2028
    “Theory of Nonperturbative Magnetic-Field Effects at 1000 T”
    (JSPS KAKENHI, Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A); Co-Investigator)
  • April 2024–March 2028
    “Development of a Theory for Spatiotemporal Control of Quantum Spin Systems as a Foundation for Quantum Information Technologies”
    (JSPS KAKENHI, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B); Principal Investigator)
  • April 2026–March 2028
    “Novel Cross-Correlated Responses in Asymmetric Quantum Matters Enabled by Thermal Responses”
    (JSPS KAKENHI, Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A), Publicly Offered Research; Principal Investigator)
  • April 2026–March 2029
    “Exploration of Thermal Properties Using Quantum Geometry”
    (JSPS KAKENHI, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A); Co-Investigator)

Awards

  • March 2005
    Aoba Society for the Promotion of Science Encouragement Award, Tohoku University
  • February 2011
    Department of Physics Award, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University
  • December 2016
    Incentive Award for Young Researcher, School of Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology
  • March 2017
    11th Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan (Division 8)
  • April 2018
    The Young Scientists’ Prize, The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
  • July 2020
    External Funding Award, Yokohama National University
  • October 2020
    12th Senshu-kai Encouragement Award, Senshu-kai, Tohoku University
  • December 2020
    15th Condensed-Matter Science Prize

Professional Service

  • April 2016–March 2017
    Steering Committee Member, Division 8 (Strongly Correlated Electron Systems), The Physical Society of Japan
  • May 9–13, 2017
    Local Organizing Committee Member, International Conference on Topological Materials Science 2017 (TopoMat2017)
  • November 14–15, 2019
    Organizer, Topological Materials Science Workshop on Majorana Excitations