Shun Okumura
Project Associate Professor
Quantum-Phase Electronics Center
The University of Tokyo
e-mail: okumura[at]ap.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Unit Leader
Emergent Functionality Design Research Unit
RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS)
e-mail: shun.okumura[at]reken.jp
Okumura group, Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo
Room 313, Faculty of Engineering Bldg. 6, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
Ph.D. of Engineering, Motome group, Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (Sep. 2020)
Doctor thesis “Chiral magnetism and quantum transport phenomena in noncentrosymmetric metals”
Master of Engineering, Motome group, Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (Mar. 2018)
Master thesis “Numerical Study of a Chiral Soliton Lattice in Magnetic Conductors”
Bachelor of Science, Kurihara group, Department of Physics, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan (Mar. 2016)
Bachelor thesis “Dynamics of a Persistent Skyrmion Lattice in Triple Quantum Well”
[Apr. 2025 – Current] Project Associate Professor, Quantum-Phase Electronics Center, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
[Apr. 2025 – Current] Unit Leader, Emergent Functionality Design Research Unit, RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS), Saitama, Japan
[Aug. 2023 – Sep. 2023] Visitor, Mook group, Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
[Apr. 2023 – Mar. 2025] Research Associate, Motome group, Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
[Feb. 2021 – Mar. 2023] Project Research Associate, Oka group, The Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan
[Oct. 2020 – Jan. 2021] Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (PD), Motome group, Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
[Nov. 2019 – Dec. 2019] Visitor, Garst group, Institute of Theoretical Solid State Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
[Apr. 2018 – Sep. 2020] Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC1), Motome group, Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
[Oct. 2017 – Mar. 2018] Research Assistant of Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo Doctoral Student Special Incentives Program (SEUT-RA), Motome group, Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Principal Investigator
[Apr. 2022 – Current] Grant-in-Aid for Early- Career Scientists (若手研究), the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, “物質中の磁気単極子が示す非平衡電磁気現象の微視的理論”
[Apr. 2018 – Jan. 2021] Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (特別研究員奨励費), the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, “カイラル磁性体中の非平衡量子輸送現象に対する大規模数値計算を用いた理論研究”
Co-Investigator
[Apr. 2023 – Current] Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (基盤研究(B)), the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, “強相関電子系におけるトポロジカル非線形機能の開拓”
Student Presentation Award of the Physical Society of Japan Region 3 (日本物理学会 領域3学生優秀発表賞), JPS Autumn Meeting 2020, Online, Sep. 2020.
“Quantum Liquid Crystals” Young Researcher Award (新学術領域「量子液晶の物性科学」第2回QLC若手研究奨励賞), FYR02 QLC meeting, Online, Dec. 2020.