Michihiro Hirata

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Staff Scientist
MPA-Q: Quantum

Dr. Michihiro Hirata is a staff scientist at MPA-Q: Quantum at LANL. His main research interest has been microscopic characterization and understanding of quantum materials showing topological and/or correlated electron properties. He is specialized in performing nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) under various extreme conditions, such as at high fields up to 45 T, high pressures up to 4 GPa, and 3He and dilution refrigerator temperatures. He is also interested in theoretical modeling and enjoys making collaborations with theorists, using different techniques ranging from lattice model calculations to renormalization-group approaches. Michi received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 2012, studying correlated organic conductors. He then became a JSPS Oversea Postdoctoral Fellow and stayed at the Grenoble High Magnetic Field Laboratory in CNRS, France, from 2013-2016, performing high-field NMR on cuprates and organics. Following three years in France, he got an assistant Professor position at Institute for Materials Research in Tohoku University, Japan, and worked at the High Field Laboratory for Superconducting Materials, from 2016 to 2021, working on bunch of different correlated electron materials. Michi became a staff member at LANL in 2021.

Elizabeth Peterson

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Staff Scientist
Physics of Condensed Matter and Complex Systems Group (T-4)

Elizabeth A. Peterson is a staff scientist in Theoretical Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the Physics of Condensed Matter and Complex Systems (T-4) group. She completed her undergraduate studies at UCLA in 2013, earning a B.S. in Chemistry and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics. From 2014-2016 she worked as a Research Scientist at a tech startup in San Francisco. In 2022 she completed her PhD in Physics at UC Berkeley, under the supervision of Prof. Jeffrey B. Neaton, with a focus on ab initio electronic structure calculations of oxides and low-dimensional materials for applications in photocatalysis and quantum information. In 2022 she began a postdoctoral position in T-4 at LANL and converted to a staff position in 2023. Her research interests, broadly, include ab initio studies of defects and interfaces of quantum materials and oxides for applications in next-generation applied energy and quantum information technology.

Han Htoon

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Scientist 5
Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies

Dr. Han Htoon is a scientist at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Materials Physics and Applications Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory. He received his PhD in physics from the University of Texas at Austin in 2001. He joined LANL as a director’s fellow and became a staff member after winning LANL’s Distin-guished Postdoctoral Performance in 2005. Htoon was recently awarded the LANL Fellows’ Research Prize (2019) and selected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2017). His research interests include fundamental as well as quantum optical properties of quantum dots, single-wall carbon nanotubes, solid-state defects and 2D materials, development of novel, single nanostructure, optical spectroscopy/imaging techniques, and device integration of optical nano-materials.

Jinkyoung Yoo

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Co-leader of Quantum Materials Systems thrust
Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies

Jinkyoung Yoo is the co-leader of Quantum Materials Systems thrust of The Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT), a National Nanoscience Research Center supported by U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), in Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is also a member of the Quantum Science Center, one of five DOE Quantum Information Science Center. He is serving as a panel of the technology council of heterogeneous integration for Semiconductor Research Corporation. He is a principal editor of Journal of Materials Research, edited by Materials Research Society and published by Springer-Nature. He received his Ph. D. (Materials Science) from the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in South Korea. He worked at CINT as a post-doctoral researcher from 2010 to 2013. He then joined CINT as a technical staff member in 2013. His research encompasses synthesis of semiconductor nanowire heterostructures, 2D/3D heterostructures, electrical/optical characterizations, and device fabrication to integrate fundamental understandings of nanoscience into applicable devices.

Yongqiang Wang

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Team Leader
Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies

Dr. Yongqiang Wang is Radiation Science Experiments (RSE) Team Leader and Director of Ion Beam Materials Laboratory (IBML) in Materials Science and Technology Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in nuclear physics and technology all from Lanzhou University in China. He has extensive expertise in conducting fundamental research in ion-solid interactions, ion irradiation and implantation effects, and ion beam analysis in various material systems as well as operation and management of small-scale electrostatic accelerators/implanters. He currently serves as Editor for Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms (NIMB), Co-organizer of Biennial International Conference series on Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry (CAARI), and Member of International Advisory Committee on Ion Beam Analysis. He has authored/co-authored nearly 400 peer-reviewed publications, including two US patents, three books, and five invited book chapters.

Shizeng Lin

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Scientist
Physics of Condensed Matter and Complex Systems Group (T-4) and Staff Scientist Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies

Shizeng Lin is a theorist specializing in condensed matter physics. Dr. Lin earned his Ph.D. from the joint graduate program at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and Tsukuba University in 2010. He then joined Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) as a postdoctoral researcher in 2011 and became a staff scientist in 2014. His research primarily focuses on correlated topological quantum materials, including superconducting vortices, magnetic skyrmions, and correlated physics in two-dimensional materials and their heterostructures. Currently, he leads a research team comprising several postdocs and students.

Avadh Saxena

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Senior Scientist
Physics of Condensed Matter and Complex Systems Group (T-4)

Dr. Avadh Saxena is former Group Leader of the Condensed Matter and Complex Systems group (T-4) at Los Alamos National Lab, New Mexico, USA where he has been since 1990. He is also an affiliate of the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos. His main research interests include phase transitions, optical, electronic, vibrational, transport and magnetic properties of functional materials, device physics, soft condensed matter, non-Hermitian quantum mechanics, geometry, topology and nonlinear phenomena/ materials harboring topological defects such as solitons, polarons, excitons, breathers, skyrmions and hopfions. He is an Affiliate Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden and holds adjunct professor positions at the University of Barcelona, Spain, University of Crete, Greece, Virginia Tech and the University of Arizona, Tucson. He is a Fellow of Los Alamos National Lab, a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), and a member of the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society, APS and American Ceramic Society (ACerS).

Andrei Piryatinski

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Scientist
Theoretical Division

Dr. Piryatinski is a technical staff member at the Theoretical Division of Los Alamos National Laboratory. His research interests cover nanostructured semiconductor materials' electronic and optical properties, the polariton physics of hybrid semiconductors and photonic/plasmonic nanostructures, quantum photon emitters, and coherent light sources. He received an M.S. in Physics in 1992 from Kyiv University and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Toledo in 1997. Following postdoctoral training at the University of Rochester 1997-2000 and the University of Wisconsin Madison (2000-2002), he joined the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos Laboratory in 2002 as a postdoc and became a staff scientist. Dr. Piryatinski is also an adjunct faculty member of the Physics Department at the University of New Mexico and affiliated scientists with the Center for Integrated Nanotechnology (CINT).

Diego Dalvit

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Technical Staff Member (Scientist 5)
Physics of Condensed Matter and Complex Systems Group (T-4)

Dr. Diego Dalvit is a quantum optics theorist, with expertise in quantum sensing and metrology, Casimir physics, and metamaterials. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) in 1998, came to Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1999 as a Director Funded Postdoctoral Fellow, and was converted to staff in 2002. He is a Fellow and Outstanding Referee of the American Physical Society. He coauthored a graduate textbook titled “Solved Problems in Statistical Physics” (Institute of Physics, 1999), co-edited another book titled “Casimir Physics” (Lecture Notes in Physics, Springer-Verlag, 2011), and published >100 papers in journals such as Reviews of Modern Physics, Science, Nature Physics, Nature Communications, Nano Letters, and Physical Review Letters. These publications have received ~8700 citations (h-index: 47). He has one issued patent and one patent under review.

Michael Pettes

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Deputy Group Leader and Staff Scientist
Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies

Dr. Michael T. Pettes is Deputy Group Leader of the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). He graduated from Duke University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 2001 and obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007 and 2011, respectively. He joined LANL as a staff scientist in July 2018 following a position as a Mechanical Engineering faculty member at the University of Connecticut and began his current management position in February 2021. He was elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in May 2023.

Theresa Kucinski

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Scientist
Nuclear Materials Science Group (MST-16)

Dr. Theresa M. Kucinski is a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) with the Nuclear Materials Science Group where she specializes in electron microscopy to characterize materials. She earned her Ph.D. in Chemistry at the Pennsylvania State University where she developed new TEM techniques for the application of aerosols under the guidance of Dr. Miriam Freedman. During her postdoc in MPA-CINT, Theresa represented LANL at the Inaugural DOE National Lab Research SLAM and won Top Presentation in Scientific Discovery for her work on 4D-STEM on imperfect materials. Theresa applies her experience in 4D-STEM using cutting-edge techniques and computational analysis to tackle material-specific challenges.

Hisato Yamaguchi

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Scientist
Applied Electrodynamics Group (AOT-AE)

Hisato Yamaguchi received BA and MA in Physics from International Christian University, Japan and PhD in Materials Science from Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. He expertise in material synthesis and material surface characterization. Two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials such as graphene have been the focus of his research for past 15 years. His original emphasis was on the synthesis of 2D nanomaterials via solution processing and exploration of their applications. His recent interest is on the protection of material surfaces using 2D materials for their use under unconventional environments to enhance their lifetime without sacrificing their performance. The advantage of using 2D nanomaterial as protection coating is a combination of gas impermeability and atomic thinness, which does not alter the performance of underlying materials. His team has won R&D 100 award in 2019 on 2D nanomaterial protection coating technology for electron source in accelerators. He is now moving onto protection of actinides, another challenging surface to protect without sacrificing the performance.

Atsuo Yamada

The University of Tokyo

Professor
The University of Tokyo

Atsuo Yamada has unique career covering both academic and industrial research. After serving as a laboratory head of Sony Research Center, he was immediately appointed as an associate professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2002, a full professor of the University of Tokyo in 2009. His diverse research works on battery materials, particularly recognized for sophisticated approaches for structure-property relationships, include very early-stage exploration/optimization of LiFePO4 and more recently, identification and understanding of several functional electrolytes. Among his many honors, Atsuo has been awarded the Spriggs Award and the Purdy Award from ACerS, the Scientific Achievement Award from ECS Japan, and IBA Research Award from International Battery Association, Battery Division Research Award from the Electrochemical Society､and Science & Technology award from MEXT Minister.

Naoji Matsuhisa

The University of Tokyo

Associate Professor
Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology
The University of Tokyo

Naoji Matsuhisa is an Associate Professor at Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST) in the University of Tokyo. His research interest is in stretchable electronic materials and devices for application in next-generation wearable devices, as well as human-computer interfaces. He has developed a variety of stretchable electronic materials. Examples include printable, stretchable conductors or stretchable polymer conductors. Based on these materials, he has also developed novel soft electronic devices and systems for applications in healthcare or human-computer interaction. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers (>10,000 citations). His representative publications are in Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Electronics, and Nature Communications. He is a chair of the Young Researchers' Society for Flexible and Stretchable Electronics in Japan. He received <10 awards, including MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 in 2022 and PMI Future 50 in 2023.

Kenji Miyatake

University of Yamanashi

Professor
University of Yamanashi

Kenji Miyatake received his PhD degree in polymer chemistry from Waseda University, Japan in 1996. He was a postdoc (JSPS overseas research fellow) at McGill University, Canada, from 1999 to 2001. In 2001, he was appointed an associate professor in Clean Energy Research Center at the University of Yamanashi, where he currently serves as a professor. He also holds a professor position at Waseda University from 2020. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). He serves as an associate editor of Fuel Cells (Wiley). His research interest involves functional polymers for energy device applications.

Yoshinori Okada

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST)

Associate Professor
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST)

Yoshinori Okada obtained his Ph.D. at Nagoya University Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Crystalline Materials Engineering, in 2009. After working as a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (from 2009 to 2010) and Boston College (from 2010 to 2013), he became an Assistant Professor at Tohoku University (AIMR) in 2013. Since 2017, he has been an Associate Professor at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), where he leads the Quantum Materials Science unit. Starting in 2024, he will also serve as a visiting associate professor at the Institute for Solid State Physics (ISSP) at the University of Tokyo.

Shunsuke Yoshizawa

Center for Basic Research on Materials (CBRM)

Senior Researcher
Nanoprobe Group
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Shunsuke Yoshizawa has been a senior researcher at NIMS since 2018. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2010. He started his career as a project researcher at the Institute for Solid State Physics, the University of Tokyo in 2010. He moved to NIMS as a postdoctoral researcher in 2012 and became an ICYS (International Center for Young Scientists) researcher in 2015. His main research topic is the nanoscale spectroscopic investigation of superconductors and topological materials using low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy. He is interested in visualizing physical phenomena by improving measurement and analysis methods according to the target material.

Taichi Terashima

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA)

Group Leader
Quantum Material Properties Group
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Taichi Terashima has been the group leader of Quantum-Materials Properties Group at the MANA since 2020. He received D. Sc. (1993) from Kyoto University. He worked at the National Research Institute for Metals, NRIM, (1993–2001) and had a one-year research stay at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida, USA (1997–1998). Then, he worked as senior researcher at the NIMS (2001-2020) after the NRIM was merged into the NIMS. His research focuses on the Fermiology of heavy fermions and novel superconductors via quantum-oscillation measurements. He is currently interested in iron-based superconductors.

Toshikaze Kariyado

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA)

Senior Researcher
2D Quantum Materials Group
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Toshikaze Kariyado is a senior researcher in Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA) at National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS). He got his Doctoral degree at University of Tokyo in 2012. After one year project researcher position in University of Tokyo, he moved to University of Tsukuba as an Assistant Professor in 2013. Then, he joined MANA-NIMS in 2016. In 2018-2019, he did his research activity in Harvard University as a Visiting Scholar. His expertise is in condensed matter theory. Recently, he is working on design of artificially stacked 2D materials for realizing exotic quantum phenomena.

Terumasa Tadano

Research Center for Magnetic and Spintronic Materials (RCMSM)

Group Leader
Spin Theory Group
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Terumasa Tadano has been leading the Spin Theory Group in CMSM at NIMS since 2024. He earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Tokyo in 2013. He started his research career as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tokyo and continued at NIMS. In 2017, he became an ICYS fellow at NIMS, refining his expertise in condensed matter physics through extensive research on lattice dynamics and anharmonic phonon theory. In 2019, he became a permanent research staff at NIMS, currently serving as a Principal Researcher and Group Leader. His expertise includes advanced computational techniques such as DFT and machine learning, which he utilizes to investigate and predict the thermal, electronic, and magnetic properties of materials.

Kazunari Yamaura

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA)

Group Leader
Quantum Solid State Materials Group
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Kazunari Yamaura is a distinguished expert in solid-state materials, leading the Quantum Solid State Materials Group at the Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA) within the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan. He earned his Doctorate in Chemistry from Kyoto University and currently serves as a Guest Professor at Hokkaido University. Previously, he was a Visiting Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Dr. Yamaura's research focuses on developing functional bulk materials with potential applications in quantum properties and advanced technologies, such as next-generation spintronic devices and ultra-sensitive sensors. He has authored over 270 scientific papers, contributing significantly to the field of materials science. Dr. Yamaura is also dedicated to mentoring the next generation of researchers through the NIMS–Hokkaido University Joint Graduate School Program.

Yusuke Kozuka

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA)

Group Leader
Qubit Materials Group
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Yusuke Kozuka has been a group leader of Qubit Materials Group at MANA, NIMS since 2023 and a Guest Professor at Waseda University since 2024. He received his Ph. D. degree at the University of Tokyo in 2010. He started his research carrier as a Research Associate at Tohoku University in 2010, and then moved to the University of Tokyo in 2011. In 2018, he moved to NIMS as an Independent Scientist. His main interest is to develop new materials and devices for quantum science and technology. He particularly focuses on thin-film technologies, interface engineering, and nanofabrication of semiconducting and superconducting materials to improve the performance of the quantum hardware.

Hiori Kino

Research Center for Electronic and Optical Materials (RCEOM)

Principal Researcher
Nano Electronics Device Materials Group
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Graduated from the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, The University of Tokyo in 1991. Completed the doctoral program at the Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo in 1996, earning a Doctor of Science. After serving as an assistant at the Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, and other positions, joined the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in 2002. Since 2015, as part of the Innovation Hub Construction Support Project by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), has been engaged in data mining since the inception of the Materials Integration by Information Initiative (MI2I) at NIMS. In the realm of data-driven AI, has a keen interest in explainable AI technologies that leverage knowledge of condensed matter physics, data generation through first-principles calculations, and the knowledge-driven AI technologies necessary for such endeavors. Authored two books on Materials Informatics in Japanese and maintains a strong interest in education.

Atsushi Togo

Center for Basic Research on Materials (CBRM)

Group Leader
Computational Materials Science Group
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Atsushi Togo received his Ph.D. degree in 2006 from Kyoto University. After working as a postdoctoral researcher at Kyoto university, RWTH Aachen university, and CNRS, he worked as a program-specific associate professor (2012 to 2020) at ESISM, Kyoto university. Currently he is a group leader at National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan.

Koichiro Yaji

Center for Basic Research on Materials (CBRM)

Group Leader
Photoemission Spectroscopy Group
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Koichiro Yaji has been a Group leader in the Center for Basic Research on Materials at NIMS since 2021. He earned his Ph.D. degree at Hiroshima University in 2006. He began his career as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Solid State Physics (ISSP), The University of Tokyo, in 2006. He then moved to the Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, as a Postdoctoral Researcher in 2008, and later he returned to ISSP as a Research Associate in 2010. In 2020, he joined NIMS as a Senior Researcher. His main interests are electronic properties and surface science. He is also working on developing a state-of-the-art spin-resolved photoemission spectroscopy machine. He has achieved remarkable results using spin-resolved photoemission spectroscopy.

Jun Kikkawa

Center for Basic Research on Materials (CBRM)

Principal Researcher
Electron Microscopy Group
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Jun Kikkawa has been a principal researcher at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) since 2023. He received his Ph.D. degree from Osaka University in 2006. He began his career as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in 2006. In 2008, he moved to Osaka University as an Assistant Professor, and later, in 2012, joined the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) as a researcher, becoming a senior researcher in 2014. He was also a researcher at the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) from 2018 to 2022. His main interest lies in the development and application of electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) combined with scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM). He recently focuses on measuring phonons and subgap states at the nanometer scales using a monochromated electron microscope.

Takayoshi Sasaki

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA)

Fellow, Group Leader
Soft Chemistry Group
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Takayoshi Sasaki is a Fellow at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS). He earned his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Tokyo in 1985. Since 1980, he has worked for the National Institute for Research in Inorganic Materials (NIRIM), Japan, which was reorganized into NIMS in 2001. Since the establishment of MANA in 2007, he has served as the Principal Investigator (and as Center director from 2017 to 2021). His current research interest focuses on 2D oxide and hydroxide nanosheets obtained by delaminating layered materials.

Lingying Li

International Center for Young Scientists (ICYS)

ICYS Research Fellow
International Center for Young Scientists
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Lingying Li is an ICYS Research Fellow at the Department of International Center for Young Scientists, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan since 2023. She received her Ph.D. in 2022 from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at University of Tsukuba, under the supervision of Prof. Tomonobu Nakayama. From 2022 to 2023, she was a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Dr. Takeo Minari at NIMS. She also has industrial experience at STATS ChipPAC Ltd. and Benesse Holdings, Inc. Her research interests include solution-processable materials, liquid-mediated patterning techniques, and (flexible/stretchable) thin-film electronics, e.g., transistors and sensors.

Joel Henzie

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA)

Principal Researcher
Functional Chromophores Group
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Joel Henzie has been a Principal Researcher at NIMS since 2020. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry at Northwestern University in 2007, where he studied plasmonic metamaterials. He began his career as a postdoctoral researcher at the Chemistry Department at the University of California-Berkeley in 2008, working on the DARPA-SERS project to assess the promise of SERS in chemical detection and develop inexpensive ultrasensitive SERS sensors. Then he moved to the Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA) in 2012. He works on the optical and electronic properties of porous conductors and the development of inexpensive methods to construct porous materials. His main fundamental interest is identifying and constructing material systems with local disorder and long-range order.

Takaaki Taniguchi

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA)

Principal Researcher
Functional Nanomaterials Group
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Takaaki Taniguchi has been a principal researcher in MANA at NIMS since 2020. He received his Ph.D. degree at Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2010. He began his career as an assistant professor at Kumamoto University in 2010, then moved to NIMS in 2015 as a researcher, His main interest is in the synthesis, characterization, and application of chemically exfoliated nanosheets including graphene oxides, metal oxides, and transition metal dichalcogenides.

Daichi Kozawa

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA)

Senior Researcher
2D Quantum Materials Group
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Dr. Daichi Kozawa has been a Senior Researcher at the National Institute for Materials Science since 2023. He earned his Ph.D. in Energy Science from Kyoto University in 2015. His career includes the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship at MIT and a Special Postdoctoral Fellowship at RIKEN. Dr. Kozawa has received The Canon Foundation Research Grant, the President Award from Kyoto University, the Young Scientist Award from The Physical Society of Japan, and the Iijima Award for Young Scientists, named after Dr. Sumio Iijima, the founder of carbon nanotubes. He studies the properties of quantum nanostructures in one-dimensional and two-dimensional materials, focusing on creating organic quantum defects in nanoscale materials.

Qinqiang Zhang

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

NIMS Postdoctoral Researcher
Nanostructured Semiconducting Materials Group

Wei-Sheng Wang

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

Trainee
Frontier Superconducting Materials Group

Yuta Ueki

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

NIMS Junior Researcher
Frontier Superconducting Materials Group
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Hibiki Nagata

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

NIMS Junior Researcher
Frontier Superconducting Materials Group
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Yu Meng

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

NIMS Junior Researcher
Quantum Solid State Materials Group
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Xuan Liang

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

NIMS Junior Researcher
Quantum Solid State Materials Group
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Jayanta Bera

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

NIMS Postdoctoral Researcher
Quantum Device Engineering Group
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Yuho Yamamoto

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

NIMS Junior Researcher
Quantum Device Engineering Group

Ryohei Nemoto

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

NIMS Postdoctoral Researcher
Surface Quantum Phase Materials Group

Yitao Chen

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

Trainee
Surface Quantum Phase Materials Group

Yuto Urano

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

NIMS Junior Researcher
2D Quantum Materials Group
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Fanyu Zeng

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

NIMS Junior Researcher
2D Quantum Materials Group
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Worapon Phatcharasirinawakun

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

NIMS Junior Researcher
Quantum Material Properties Group
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Ryota Ono

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

NIMS Postdoctoral Researcher
Quantum Materials Modeling Group

Youhei Yamaji

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

Group Leader
Quantum Materials Modeling Group
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Shengzhou Li

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

NIMS Junior Researcher
Quantum Materials Simulation Group
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Amran Yatmeidhy

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

NIMS Postdoctoral Researcher
Quantum Materials Simulation Group
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Barun Kumar Barman

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

NIMS Postdoctoral Researcher
Photonics Nano-Engineering Group

Yusuke Kozuka

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

Group Leader
Qubit Materials Group
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Yusuke Kozuka has been a group leader of Qubit Materials Group at MANA, NIMS since 2023 and a Guest Professor at Waseda University since 2024. He received his Ph. D. degree at the University of Tokyo in 2010. He started his research carrier as a Research Associate at Tohoku University in 2010, and then moved to the University of Tokyo in 2011. In 2018, he moved to NIMS as an Independent Scientist. His main interest is to develop new materials and devices for quantum science and technology. He particularly focuses on thin-film technologies, interface engineering, and nanofabrication of semiconducting and superconducting materials to improve the performance of the quantum hardware.

Kazuki Aihara

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

Trainee
Thin Film Electronics Group

Makoto Sakurai

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

Principal Researcher
Ionic Devices Group
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Wataru Namiki

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

Researcher
Neuromorphic Devices Group
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Daiki Nishioka

International Center for Young Scientists

ICYS Research Fellow

Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Akitsu Shigetou

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

Team Leader
Smart Interface Team
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Ondrej Vesely

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

NIMS Postdoctoral Researcher
Soft Chemistry Group

Huanran Li

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

NIMS Junior Researcher
Functional Nanomaterials Group
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Zihan Zhang

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

NIMS Junior Researcher
Functional Nanomaterials Group
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Takayuki Kikuchi

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

NIMS Junior Researcher
Functional Nanomaterials Group
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Zhenfeng Guo

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

NIMS Junior Researcher
Frontier Molecules Group
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Kouta Fukuda

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

NIMS Junior Researcher
Frontier Molecules Group
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Subrata Maji

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

NIMS Postdoctoral Researcher
Functional Chromophores Group

Joel Henzie

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

Principal Researcher
Functional Chromophores Group
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Joel Henzie has been a Principal Researcher at NIMS since 2020. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry at Northwestern University in 2007, where he studied plasmonic metamaterials. He began his career as a postdoctoral researcher at the Chemistry Department at the University of California-Berkeley in 2008, working on the DARPA-SERS project to assess the promise of SERS in chemical detection and develop inexpensive ultrasensitive SERS sensors. Then he moved to the Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA) in 2012. He works on the optical and electronic properties of porous conductors and the development of inexpensive methods to construct porous materials. His main fundamental interest is identifying and constructing material systems with local disorder and long-range order.

Jiakai Chen

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

NIMS Junior Researcher
Nanoparticle Group
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Cong Zhang

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

NIMS Junior Researcher
Nanoparticle Group
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Masaki Ishii

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

NIMS Postdoctoral Researcher
Supermolecules Group

Takuma Ohashi

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

Trainee
Supermolecules Group

Novi Dwi Widya Rini

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

Trainee
Supermolecules Group
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Koki Nozawa

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

Trainee
Nanostructured Semiconducting Materials Group

Takumi Horikoshi

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

Visiting Researcher
High-Pressure Structural Controls Group

Ilario Bisignano

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

NIMS Junior Researcher
Optical Nanostructure Team
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Ryugo Hosokawa

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

NIMS Junior Researcher
Optical Nanostructure Team
Researcher Bio (NIMS SAMURAI Database)

Yuk Ming Wong

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

NIMS Postdoctoral Researcher
Optical Nanostructure Team

ICYS

International Center for Young Scientists

International Center for Young Scientists