PI's biography
Yuki earned his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Tokyo in 2015, where he specialized in physical chemistry. As an undergraduate, he worked with Kaoru Yamanouchi and investigated how femtosecond pulses could be used to control the sub-femtosecond dynamics of Coulomb explosion in small molecules. He then moved to Berkeley, California, to pursue his Ph.D. in Chemistry, which he completed in 2020 under the guidance of Stephen Leone and Daniel Neumark. At Berkeley, his research focused on the application of attosecond spectroscopy to chemical dynamics, where he characterized curve-crossing dynamics and vibronic coherences in photoexcited molecules. Following his Ph.D., he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University with Tony Heinz, David Reis, and Shambhu Ghimire. There, he studied strong light-matter interactions in two-dimensional materials and explored the use of enhanced quantum effects for optical applications.
In August 2023, Yuki started a research group at the U-M Chemistry. Go Blue!
Positions
Willian R. Roush Assistant Professor, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, USA, 2023-present
Fellow, Quantum Research Initiative, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, USA, 2024-present
Department of Chemistry
Quantum Materials Chemistry group
Urbanek-Chodorow Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford PULSE Institute, USA, 2020-2023
Research advisors: Tony F. Heinz, David A. Reis, Shambhu Ghimire
Research theme: "Extreme light-matter interactions in two-dimensional materials"
Ph.D., Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, USA, 2015-2020
Research advisors: Stephen R. Leone, Daniel M. Neumark
Thesis title: "Attosecond molecular spectroscopy: electronic coherence and curve-crossing dynamics"
B.S., Chemistry, University of Tokyo, Japan, 2011-2015
Research advisor: Kaoru Yamanouchi
Thesis title: "Carrier-envelope-phase dependence of Coulomb-explosion dynamics in D2O"
Awards
2020 UC President’s Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Fellow, University of California
2020 Urbanek-Chorodow Postdoctoral Fellowship, Stanford University
2015 Funai Overseas Scholarship, The Funai Foundation for Information Technology
2015 Chemistry Chair Award for Undergraduate Research, University of Tokyo