Mar. 2023
Doctor of Science, Department of Pure and Applied Physics, Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Japan
Thesis: Rigid-Body Rotation of Cholesteric Droplets Coexisting with Their Isotropic Phase Driven by Thermomechanical Coupling (pdf file)
Adviser: Prof. Yuka Tabe, Committee: Prof. Mitsunori Takano and Prof. Yoshihiro Yamazaki
Mar. 2020
Master of Science, Department of Pure and Applied Physics, Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Japan
Mar. 2019
Bachelor of Engineering, Department of Applied Physics, School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Japan
Apr. 2025–Present
Research Fellow, Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic, USA
Advisors: Connie Chang, Jim Wilking
Visiting Research Scientist, Department of Physics, Brandeis University, USA
Advisor: Seth Fraden
May 2023–Apr. 2025
Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Physics, Brandeis University, USA
Advisors: Seth Fraden, Zvonimir Dogic (UCSB)
Apr. 2023–Apr. 2023
PD Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Advisors: Yuka Tabe, Ken Ishikawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Apr. 2022–Mar. 2023
DC2 Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Oct. 2021–Mar. 2022
Apr. 2021–Feb. 2022
Research Assistant, Kagami Memorial Research Institute for Materials Science and Technology, Japan
Katsu Nishiyama, John Berezney, Michael M. Norton, Akshit Aggarwal, Saptorshi Ghosh, Michael F. Hagan, Zvonimir Dogic, and Seth Fraden. Closed-loop control of active nematic flows. arXiv:2408.14414 [cond-mat.soft]. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2408.14414
Katsu Nishiyama, Shinji Bono, and Yuka Tabe. Steady rigid-body rotation of cholesteric droplets and their dumbbell-shaped aggregates driven by heat flux along the helical axes. Soft Matter, Vol. 17, No. 48, pp. 10818−10828, 2021. Back Cover. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1SM01524A
Shinji Bono, Yuji Maruyama, Katsu Nishiyama, and Yuka Tabe. Heat-Driven Rigid-Body Rotation of a Mixture of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Droplets and Colloids. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol. 124, No. 28, pp. 6170−6174, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c04186
Shinji Bono, Yuji Maruyama, Katsu Nishiyama, and Yuka Tabe. A thermomechanical coupling in cholesteric liquid crystals: Unidirectional rotation of double-twist cylinders driven by heat flux. The European Physical Journal E, Vol. 42, p. 99, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1140/epje/i2019-11867-x
Katsu Nishiyama, Shinji Bono, Yuji Maruyama, and Yuka Tabe. Direct Observation of Rigid-Body Rotation of Cholesteric Droplets Subjected to a Temperature Gradient. Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, Vol. 88, No. 6, p. 063601, 2019. Papers of Editors’ Choice. https://doi.org/10.7566/JPSJ.88.063601
Shinji Bono, Yuji Maruyama, Katsu Nishiyama, and Yuka Tabe. Photo-Controllable Rotation of Cholesteric Double-Twist Cylinders. Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol. 683, No. 1, pp. 39–45, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1080/15421406.2019.1581703
Katsu Nishiyama and Yuka Tabe. Direct Observation of Unidirectional Rotation of Cholesteric Droplets Subjected to a Temperature Gradient. AAPPS Bulletin, Vol. 29, No. 5, pp. 40–41, 2019.