Takayuki Kurihara

Dr. Takayuki Kurihara  (栗原 貴之)

I am an experimental physicist working on: Ultrafast photonics R&D, condensed matter physics, optomagnetism, terahertz and attosecond photonics, etc.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6903-002X

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-l-0HY0AAAAJ&hl=ja 

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Takayuki-Kurihara

ResearchMap: https://researchmap.jp/takayuki_kurihara 

※NOTE: I started my research group as a principle investigator since April 2025 at Univ. Tokyo (Komaba campus). This is a temporal website until my official HP is ready. If you are interested in working with me on topics such as ultrafast laser, nonlinear optics, quantum optics, terahertz science, condensed matter photonics, and ultrafast magnonics, etc, please don't hesitate to contact me via following email. Master & Ph.D. student & posdoc position are now available!  :

 takayuki-kurihara ＋at_mark_＋ g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Associate Professor, Ph.D. (Science)

Department of Basic Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo

Room 507A, Building No. 16, Komaba I Campus, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8902

TEL: 03-5454-6754 (Int. 46754)

UTokyo: https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/people/k0001_02976.html

Department of Basic Science (Japanese only at the moment): https://dbs.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/laboratory/d1_takayuki_kurihara/

◆EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

★The University of Tokyo, Japan (current address)

(Department of Basic Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences)

・March 2025 - : Associate Professor

...Will work on ultrafast physics and time-domain quantum photonics! 

The University of Tokyo, Japan

(Itatani group, Laser and Synchrotron Research Center, Institute for Solid State Physics)

・February 2020 - March 2025: Research Fellow (assistant professor)

Worked on few-cycle OPA for attosecond experiments, laser dvelopment, high harmonics generation and soft X-ray physics. 

University of Konstanz, Germany 

        (Postdoctoral researcher at Alfred Leitenstorfer group, University of Konstanz)

・April 2018 - February 2020: Groupleader Postdoc (Zukunftskolleg 5-year fellow)

・August 2016-March 2019: JSPS Postdoctoral fellow for Research Abroad

Worked on ultrafast spin noise spectroscopy, fiber laser, THz and mid-infrared magnonics.

Osaka University, Japan 

・April 2016- March 2017:  JSPS Postdoctoral fellow, THz science group, Institute for Laser Engineering.

Worked on THz FEL and THz metamaterials.

The University of Tokyo, Japan

(Suemoto group, Laser and Synchrotron Research Center, Institute for Solid State Physics)

・March 2016: Ph.D. Science, Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science.

Thesis: “Observation and control of the magnetic order dynamics using terahertz magnetic nearfields enhanced by metallic microstructures” (Research Incentive Award from Graduate School of Science / Nominated for Springer Thesis Award).

 ・March 2013: Master of Science, Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science.

・March 2011: Bachelor of Engineering, Department of Precision Engineering, School of Engineering.

Worked on THz magnonics and plasmonics.

◆FELLOWSHIP, WORK EXPERIENCE

・2025 - SFB 1432 Merkator Fellow (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, University of Konstanz)

・April 2025-present:

Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo.

・February 2020 – March 2025:

Research Fellow (assistant professor), The University of Tokyo

・April 2019 – February 2020:

         Zukunftskolleg Research Fellow, University of Konstanz 

・April 2017 – March 2019:

Overseas Research Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

・April 2016 – March 2017:

Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (PD), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

・April 2015 – March 2016:

Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC2), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

・February 2012 – March 2016:

Advanced Leading Graduate Course for Photon Science (ALPS)

◆SKILLS

・Experiment Skills:

THz time domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS), Nonlinear spectroscopy, fiber laser R&D, OPA, solid state laser (Ti:Sapphire oscillator / amplifier), UV-Vis-NIR spectrometer, Fourier-transform infrared spectrometer (FTIR), Raman spectrometer, Scattering nearfield optical microscopy (SNOM), Muffle Furnace, Floating-Zone (FZ) furnace, Electron-beam deposition, resistance heating evaporation, UV photolithography, Laser processing, Milling Machining, Lathe Machining, X-ray Laue measurement, LabVIEW, Matlab, IGOR pro, Mathematica, etc.

・Language Skills:

 Japanese (native language), English (scientific research level), German (B1)

◆AWARDS

・19th Kondo prize, The University of Osaka (2025)

・The 2025 AAPPS -JPS Award （Physical Society of Japan, division 5）

・2024 Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan (division 5)

・Poster presentation award (second place), Quantum Vacuum in Matter International Workshop, Rice University, Houston, US, October 11 – 13 (2023).

・Participant for the 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (Alma Mater; Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz), 7/1-7/5 (2019)

・Proceeding Award from the Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University (2017)

・Young Scientists Presentation Award, from The Japan Socienty of Applied Physics (2016)

・Springer Thesis Award (2016)

・Research Incentive Awards, from School of Science, The University of Tokyo (for Ph.D. Thesis, March 2016)

・Best Poster Presentation Award for Students, from The Physical Society of Japan (Annual conference, celebrating the International Year of Light, Sept. 2015)

・”Best Presentation Award for Students”, from Japan Society of Applied Physics (THz summer school 2012)

◆Conference committee etc.

・CLEO 2025 subcommittee (Fundamental Science 4: Ultrafast dynamics in condensed matter)

・関東光科学若手研究会 2025 幹事

(Last update: 19 April 2025)