Ya-Lun Ho received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from National Taiwan University in 2009 and 2010, respectively. He also received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Tokyo in 2015. He worked as JSPS Research Fellow from 2014 to 2017 and Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo from 2017 to 2022. After that, he joined the Institute for Photon Science and Technology, School of Science, The University of Tokyo as a Project Assistant Professor, and at the same time, he was also a Chief Scientist at JSR-UTokyo Collaboration Hub, CURIE until June 2023. 

Currently, He is a Senior Researcher at the Research Center for Electronic and Optical Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, NIMS.

Research Interests

- Low-dimensional material nanophotonics

- Atomic-layer metasurface

- Membrane nanophotonics 

Nanophotonics based on advanced materials, including 2D materials and quantum materials, with photonic designs and fabrication methodologies in atomic-layer scale
原子層メタ表面／光・物質相互作用／原子層レベルナノ加工／ナノメンブレン／二次元材料／コロイド量子ドット／大面積ナノ加工