yukarisearch - Yukari Katsura Ph.D.

History

Apr. 1996 - Dec. 1999 

Ascham School, Edgecliff (NSW, Australia) 

Apr. 2000 - Mar.2009 

The University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)

Apr. 2003 - Mar. 2009 

Bachelor/Master/Doctor-course student

Kishio Lab., Dept. of Applied Chemistry/Superconductivity, 

(Graduate) School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)

Apr. 2006 - Mar. 2009

JSPS Special Researcher (DC1)

Apr. 2009 - Aug. 2012 

Special Postdoctorial Researcher

Magnetic Materials Lab., RIKEN (Saitama, Japan) 

Sep. 2012 - Jul. 2014

Special Researcher

Takagi (Takagi-Taniguchi) Lab., Dept. of Physics, 

Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)

Aug. 2014 - Jul. 2015

Special Researcher

Oshiyama Lab., Dept.  of Applied Physics, 

Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)

Apr. 2015 - Mar. 2017

Part-time Lecturer (Chemistry)

Shibaura Institute of Technology (Saitama, Japan)

Aug. 2015 - Present

Assistant Professor

Kaoru Kimura Lab., Dept.  of Advanced Materials Science, 

Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo (Chiba, Japan)

Jul. 2015 - Present

Special Researcher

Center for Materials research by Information Integration (CMI2), 

Research and Services Division of Materials Data and Integrated System (MaDIS), 

National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) (Ibaraki, Japan)

Research history

2003-2005 Critical current properties of polycrystalline MgB2 superconductor (experimental)

2005-2009 Search for new boride superconductors (experiment + theory)

2008-2009 Search for new Fe-based superconductors (experiment +  theory)

2009-2012 Search for new thermoelectric materials (experiment + theory)

2010-2012 Design of Thermoelectric measurement system (experiment)

2010-Present Search for design rules of thermoelectric materials (theory)

2015-Present Materials Informatics of thermoelectric materials using large-scale experimental data (theory)

Skills

Material synthesis under inert conditions

Transmission electron microscopy

First-principles calculations (WIEN2k+BoltzTraP etc.)

Academic communities

Thermoelectrics Society of Japan (Member of Editorial Committee)

Japan Society of Applied Physics

Japanese Physical Society

Japan Society of Metals and Metallulogy

International Awards

Sep. 2012 Yukari Katsura, Award for Encouragement of Research in Materials Science, International Union of Materials Research Societies – International Conference on Electronic Materials (IUMRS-ICEM2012)

Sep. 2014 Yukari Katsura, Hidenori Takagi, The 2014 ITS Outstanding Poster Award at the 33rd International Conference on Thermoelectrics

Software

easy-boltztrap