Dr. Takahashi grew up in Sakura, Chiba, Japan where the area were surrounded by many rice fields, creeks and a lake. In his childhood, he enjoyed playing soccer, cycling, and fishing.  When he was in a high school, he was fascinated with Physics and Math with which the nature can described by a simple expression, and decided to study science in a college and beyond.  He gradauted from Aoyama-Gakuin University with B.S.  and M.S. in Physics with research of condensed matter physics theory with Prof. Duk Joo Kim. After the graduate school, Dr. Takahashi worked for Hitachi in Tokyo to research high-speed and high-bandwidth interface circuits for a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) bus with Dr. Hideki Osaka. 

Then, Dr. Takahashi moved to the United State to earn his Ph.D. He attened University of Florida for four years to obtain his in Physics in 2005 with Prof. Steve Hill. He then moved to University of California Santa Barbara where he investigated electron spin decoherence in solid-state systems including nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond and single-molecule magnets (SMMs) using high frequency pulsed electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy. He also developed 240 GHz pulsed EPR spectrometer powered by the UCSB free-electron lasers (FELs) with Prof. Mark Sherwin, Physics-UCSB. 

Education

2005   Ph.D. in Physics, University of Florida

1997   M.S. in Physics, Aoyama-Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan

1995   B.S. in Physics, Aoyama-Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan

Awards

2012    Searle scholar

2011    James H. Zumberge research and innovation individual award (USC)

2004    Tom Scott memorial award for the best experimental Ph.D. research (UF) 

Appointments

2017-present    Associate Professor (tenured), University of Southern California

Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics & Astronomy

2018   Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo, Intititute for Solid State Physics

2010-2017     Assistant Professor, University of Southern California

  Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics & Astronomy

2008-2010     Project Scientist, University of California at Santa Barbara (Sherwin group)

 Department of Physics/Institute for Terahertz Science and Technology (ITST)

2006-2008   Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California at Santa Barbara (Sherwin group)

          Department of Physics/Institute for Terahertz Science and Technology (ITST)

1997-2001   Engineer, Hitachi Ltd.

 Semiconductor and Integrated Circuits, Tokyo, Japan