Minoru Kawamura is currently a senior research scientist at RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science. He received his Ph. D degree in physics from the University of Tokyo in 2001. After postdoctoral positions at NTT Basic Research Laboratories, RIKEN, and the University of Tokyo, he joined RIKEN in 2008 as a tenured researcher. He is an experimental physicist and specializes in the fields of semiconductor physics and low temperature physics. His research interests include quantum transport phenomena in nano-scale electronic devices, spin-related phenomena in semiconductors, and electronic states in topological insulators. He is skilled at micro-fabrication of solid state devices and materials, low-noise electron transport measurements at cryogenic temperatures, magnetic resonance measurements, and characterization of the observed phenomena.

Education

Bachelor of Sci. (1996), Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan.

Master of Sci. (1998), Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan.

Ph. D. in physics(2001),  University of Tokyo, Japan.

Professional experience

April 2001 - March 2003: Postdoctoral fellow, NTT Basic Research Laboratories

April 2003 - March 2006: Postdoctoral fellow, RIKEN

April 2006 - September 2008: Research Associate, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo

October 2008 - March 2010: Researcher, RIKEN

[October 2008 - March 2012: also Researcher of the PRESTO project, Japan Science and Technology Agency]

April 2010 - present: Senior research scientist, RIKEN

April 2016 - present: Part-time lecturer, Tokyo University of Science

July 2019 - September 2019: Visiting professor, National Chung Hshing University, Taiwan

August 2023 - July 2024: Visiting professor, National Chung Hshing University, Taiwan

Lectures

"Quantum Transport Phenomena in Mesoscopic Systems", Intensive lecture course, graduate school, Kumamoto University (2012).

"Electronics", Lecture course, Department of physics, School of science and technology, Tokyo University of Science (2016).

"Electronics", Lecture course, Department of physics, School of science and technology, Tokyo University of Science (2017).

"Electronics", Lecture course, Department of physics, School of science and technology, Tokyo University of Science (2018).

"Electronics", Lecture course, Department of physics, School of science and technology, Tokyo University of Science (2019).

"Introduction to Topological Insulators", Summer course, graduate school, National Chung Hshing University, Taiwan (2019).

"Electronics", Lecture course, Department of physics, School of science and technology, Tokyo University of Science (2020). [online]

"Electronics", Lecture course, Department of physics, School of science and technology, Tokyo University of Science (2021). [online]

"Electronics", Lecture course, Department of physics, School of science and technology, Tokyo University of Science (2022).

"Electronics", Lecture course, Department of physics, School of science and technology, Tokyo University of Science (2023).

"Quantum anomalous Hall effect", Summer school, graduate school, National Chung Hshing University, Taiwan (2023).

Awards

The RIKEN EIHO Award (RIKEN Significant Achievement Award) , March 2022.

The 9th CEMS award, April 2022.

Grants

2007: Sumitomo foundation

2008: The Japan Science Society

2007-2008: KAKENHI (Wakate B), JSPS

2008-2012: PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency

2012-2015: KAKENHI (Wakate A), JSPS

2015-2020: KAKENHI(Scientific Research on Priority Areas), MEXT

2018-2021: KAKENHI(Kiban B), JSPS

Professional Societies & Social Activities

Member of the Physical Society of Japan.

SEWANIN of Division 4 of the Physical Society of Japan (May 2008 - April 2009).

The local organizing committee of Frontiers in Nanoscale Science and Technology Workshop 2011.

Steering committee member of RIKEN Open Campus Day 2013.

Steering committee member of RIKEN Open Campus Day 2015.

Member of RIKEN Scientists' assembly steering committee FY2014-FY2015.

Program committee member of the International Symposium on Hybrid Quantum Systems 2017 (HQS 2017).

Program committee member of Compound Semiconductor Week 2019 (CSW2019).

Program committee member of the International Symposium on Hybrid Quantum Systems 2019 (HQS 2019).

License

High-pressure gas safety license(class-B, mechanical).

Driver's license (ordinary).