Taisuke Sasaki
Professional Experience
2025.5 Professor, Subprogram in Materials Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, University of Tsukuba
2023.4 Group leader, NIMS
2019.7 Lecturer, Department of Materials Engineering, The University of Tokyo (Joint appointment)
2019.4 Principal researcher, NIMS
2016.4 Senior researcher, NIMS
2011.4 Researcher, NIMS
2009.4 Postdoctoral researcher, The University of Alabama
2008.4 Postdoctoral researcher, NIMS
Educational Background
2008 Dr. Eng. Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba
2005 M.S. Department of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University
2003 B.S. Department of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University
Awards and Honors
2024 Mishima Award, The Iron and Steel Institute Japan
2022 The Japan Institute of Metals and Materials Meritorious Award, Japan Institute of Metals and Materials
2021 Honda Memorial Young Researcher Award, The Honda Memorial Foundations
2020 The 31st Tsukuba Encouragement Prize, The Science and Technology Promotion Foundation of Ibaraki
2019 The Young Scientist’s Prize, The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
2018 The Japan Institute of Metals and Materials Murakami Young Researcher Award, Japan Institute of Metals and Materials
2015 Young scientist award, MRS-J
2014 The Japan Institute of Metals and Materials Young Researcher Award, Japan Institute of Metals and Materials
2014 Young scientist award, Japan Institute of Light Metals
2013 Young scientist award, Japan Magnesium Association
2003 Shirasagi award, Osaka Prefecture University (Ranked 1st in the department upon graduation)
Selected Publications
"Role of deformation on the hydrogen trapping in the pearlitic steel"
Z.H. Li, T.T. Sasaki, R. Ueji, Y. Kimura, A. Shibata, K. Hono, Scripta Materialia, 241 (2024) 115859
"Substantial coercivity enhancement in Dy-free Nd-Fe-B sintered magnet by Dy grain boundary diffusion"
Z. Wang, T.T. Sasaki, Y. Une, T. Ohkubo, K. Hono, Acta Materialia, 248 (2023) 118774.
"Deformation induced solute segregation and G.P. zone formation in Mg-Al and Mg-Zn binary alloys"
T.T. Sasaki, J.Y. Lin, P. Yi, Z.H. Li, S.E. Prameela, A. Park, E. Lipkin, A. Lee, M. Falk, T.P. Weihs, K. Hono, Scripta Materialia, 220 (2022) 114924.
"Microstructure and coercivity of grain boundary diffusion processed Dy-free and Dy-containing Nd-Fe-B sintered magnets"
T.H. Kim, T.T. Sasaki, T. Ohkubo, Y. Takada, A. Kato, Y. Kaneko, K. Hono,, Acta Materialia, 172 (2019) 139-149.
"Bake-hardenable Mg-Al-Zn-Mn-Ca sheet alloy processed by twin-roll casting"
M.-Z. Bian, T.T. Sasaki, T. Nakata, Y. Yoshida, N. Kawabe, S. Kamado, K. Hono, Acta Materialia, 158 (2018) 278-288.