CV

Born in July, 1980 in Hitachi, Ibaraki, Japan. 

Research Experience

• April 2007 - August 2009

 Special Postdoctoral Researcher at Condensed Matter Theory Laboratory, RIKEN (Wako, Japan)

• September 2009 - June 2011

Postdoctoral Fellow at Department of Physics, University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada)

(Yong Baek Kim's group; Journal Club)

• July 2011 - August 2012

Postdoctoral Researcher at Department of Physics, University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)

(Masahito Ueda's group)

• August 2012 - March 2019

Assistant Professor (Research Associate) at Department of Physics, University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)

(Masahito Ueda's group)

• April 2019 - March 2025

Senior Assistant Professor (principal investigator) at Department of Physics, Keio University

• April 2025 - present 

Associate Professor at Department of Physics, Keio University (Yokohama, Japan)

(Theoretical Physics Group)

Education

• April 1999 - March 2002

Undergraduate studies at Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo, Japan)

(ended without a diploma for grade skipping to the graduate course)

• April 2002 - March 2004

Master of Science at Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo, Japan)

(Masaki Oshikawa's group)

• September 2005 - September 2006

Visiting Student at IPhT, CEA Saclay (Gif-sur-Yvette, France) and at LPTMC, Universite Paris VI P. & M. Curie (Paris, France)

(hosted by Gregoire Misguich and Claire Lhuillier; support from "College Doctoral Franco-Japonais")

• April 2004 - March 2007

Doctor of Science at Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo, Japan)

(Masaki Oshikawa's group)

Award

• The 2nd High Magnetic Field Forum Frontier Award for Young Researcher (December, 2020)

for "Theoretical studies on quantum magnets with competing ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic interactions"

• The 7th Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan in the 11th division (Condensed Matter fundamentals) (March, 2013)

for the studies on "Entanglement entropy in quantum many-body systems" (award description in Japanese)

Research grants 

(KAKEN Researcher number: 50647716) 

• JSPS KAKENHI JP24H00970 (3,600,000 yen, FY 2024-2025) Transformative Research Area A "Extreme Universe"

Investigation of topological phases and transitions via quantum control, quantum entanglement, and duality 

• JSPS KAKENHI JP18K03446 (3,100,000 yen, FY 2018-2024)

Symmetry-enriched topological phases: theoretical foundation and proposal for realization

• Keio Gijuku Academic Development Funds (1,000,000 yen, FY 2019)

Theoretical study of many-body effects in Bose-Einstein condensates in synthetic gauge fields

• Matsuo Foundation (1,500,000 yen,  FY 2017-FY2018)

Phase frustration in Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices

• JSPS KAKENHI JP25800225 (2,900,000 yen, FY 2013-2016)

Exploration of topological orders in strongly correlated ultracold atomic systems and development of their fundamental theory

• Research grant for Special Postdoctoral Researcher at RIKEN (3,900,000 yen, FY 2007-2009)

Spin liquid and topological order in two-dimensional quantum antiferromagnets

Journal referee contributions

I regularly review articles in Physical Review (Lett., A, B, X), JSTAT, JPSJ, and PTEP.

I have also reviewed articles in NJP, JLTP, MPLB, Physica A.