Welcome to my homepage
Hello. I'm Dr. Yoshitaka Tateyama, a MANA Young Scientist in the WPI Center for
Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA) that is newly organized in the
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS).
[I used to be a senior researcher in the Computational Materials Science Centre (CMSC), NIMS.]
I'm a theoretical/computational physicist/chemist.
I've earned a ph.D. in condensed matter physics. In these years however I've been
interested in chemistry problems and got involved in the communities of chemists.
My research is a sort of mixture between physics and chemistry, and thus interdisciplinary.
My primary targets are rather fundamental problems in physical
chemistry. Therefore I call my virtual team "Computational Physical Chemistry (CPC) team".
I'm trying to make the team (collaboration) larger.
It would be really nice if you'd like to tackle those problems of interest
in/with the CPC team.
My research
My main projects are as follows.
(1) Development and/or establishment of theories and computational methods for problems in physical chemistry
based on the "density functional theory (DFT) and ab-initio calculation techniques".
(2) Understanding microscopic mechanisms of elementary reactions in physical chemistry problems
by applying these DFT-based and ab-initio computations.
The particular fields of target are,
- Electrochemistry
- Photochemistry
- Solution chemistry
- Hydrogen science
- Defect science
- High pressure science.
In detail, I'm now working on, redox reaction (electron and proton transfer reactions), elementary reactions in catalysis, fuel cells and solar cells, reactions in aqueous solution, photoinduced electron-nucleus dynamics, and hydrogen in materials.
Some of these projects are being done in international collaborations. Also I collaborate with a lot of domestic theorists as well as experimentalists. The discussions in those collaborations are indeed the driving forces of my projects. On the other hand, I'm trying to make my research unique as much as possible.
CMS seminar (Seminar series in NIMS-CMSC)
I'm running the "Comuptational Materials Science (CMS) seminar" in the Computational Materials Science Centre (CMSC), NIMS where I used to be. This seminar series aims at discussion of fundamental theories and calculational methods as well as individual problems in materials science.For detail, visit the web page of the CMS seminar.