Atsuo Shitade
Associate Professor, Department of Theoretical Nanotechnology (Minamitani Group)
Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University
Employment
2023/11/01-Present: Associate Professor, Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University
2023/03/01-2023/10/31: Assistant Professor, Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University
2019/11/01-2023/02/28: Assistant Professor, Department of Theoretical and Computational Molecular Science, Institute for Molecular Science
2019/11/01-2023/02/28: Assistant Professor, Department of Functional Molecular Science, Graduate University for Advanced Studies
2019/04/01-2019/10/31: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Physics, Kyoto University
Employed by: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) [No. JP15H05745]
Project: "Understanding of the Mechanism of Superconductivity and Search for a Novel Superconducting State in Uranium Heavy-Fermion Compounds"
2016/04/01-2019/03/31: Special Postdoctoral Researcher, RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science
2015/06/01-2016/03/31: Postdoctoral Researcher, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University
Employed by: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) [No. JP25287085]
Project: "New developments in quantum orders"
2015/04/01-2015/05/31: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Physics, Kyoto University
Employed by: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) [No. JP25400366]
Project: "Correlation effects in topological quantum matter"
2012/04/01-2015/03/31: JSPS Fellow-PD, Department of Physics, Kyoto University
2009/04/01-2012/03/31: JSPS Fellow-DC1, Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo
Education
Doctor of Engineering (University of Tokyo, 2012/03/22)
2009/04/13-2012/03/22: Doctor of Engineering, Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo
Supervisor: Professor Naoto Nagaosa
Thesis: "Cooperative Phenomena Driven by Spin-Orbit Interaction and Magnetism" [pdf]
2007/04/05-2009/03/23: Master of Engineering, Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo
Supervisor: Professor Naoto Nagaosa
Thesis: "Quantum spin Hall effect in transition metal oxides" [pdf]
2003/04/11-2007/03/23: Bachelor of Engineering, Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo
Supervisor: Professor Kazushi Kanoda
Thesis: "13C NMR in a metal--Mott-insulator alternating material (Me-3,5-DIP)[Ni(dmit)2]2"
Lectures and Exercises
2024/Spring-Summer: "Thermodynamics", Department of Engineering, Osaka University.
2019/Spring: "Physics Guided Research Q11", Department of Physics, Kyoto University (shared).
Grants-in-Aid
2022/04/01-2025/03/31: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) [No. JP22K03498]
Principal Investigator: Atsuo Shitade
Budget: \4,290,000
Project: "Semiclassical theory of wave packet dynamics in curved spacetime and its application to nonlinear responses"
2021/04/01-2025/03/31: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) [No. JP21H01816]
Principal Investigator: Emi Minamitani
Budget: \16,120,000
Project: "Theoretical study of thermal properties in two-dimensional amorphous materials using data science techniques"
2018/04/01-2022/03/31: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists [No. JP18K13508]
Principal Investigator: Atsuo Shitade
Budget: \3,900,000
Project: "Theory of spin dynamics induced by temperature gradient"
2012/04/01-2015/03/31: Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows [No. JP12J00600]
Principal Investigator: Atsuo Shitade
Budget: \3,630,000
Project: "Theoretical study of topology and quantum transport phenomena in strongly correlated electron systems"
2009/04/01-2012/03/31: Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows [No. JP09J00300]
Principal Investigator: Atsuo Shitade
Budget: \2,100,000
Project: "Theoretical study of cooperative phenomena driven by spin-orbit interaction and electron correlation"
Awards
2021/03/15: Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan (Division 8)
Title: "Theoretical study on cross-correlated responses in crystals based on electronic multipole"
2009/03/23: Shoji Tanaka Award (Master Thesis Award)
Title: "Quantum spin Hall effect in transition metal oxides"
Organizing Committees for Workshops
2020/10/01-2021/09/30: Organizing committee for the Physical Society of Japan (Division 3)
2014/05/31: Organizing committee for 3rd. Kansai Young Researchers' Condensed Matter Workshop (Osaka University)
2013/11/09: Organizing committee for 2nd. Kansai Young Researchers' Condensed Matter Workshop (Osaka University)
2013/06/22: Organizing committee for 1st. Kansai Young Researchers' Condensed Matter Workshop (Osaka University)
2010/08/07-2010/08/11: Organizing committee for 55th. Condensed Matter Physics Summer School (Hotel Tatsuki)
2008/08/07-2008/08/11: Organizing committee for 53rd. Condensed Matter Physics Summer School (Nasu Oshima Forum)