Profile for Prof. Tomoyasu Taniyama

Education

• 1987 Keio Senior High School
• 1991 Bachelor of Engineering, Department of Instrumentation Engineering, Keio University
• 1997 Ph. D., Department of Materials Science, Keio University

 
Employment

• 1996 National Research Institute for Metals（currently National Institute for Materials Science, NIMS）Postdoctoral Research Fellow
• 1998 Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Graduate School f of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
• 2001 Visiting Researcher, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
• 2004 Associate Professor, Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology
• 2016 Associate Professor, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology
• 2016 Guest Associate Professor, Center for Spintronics Research Network, Osaka University
• 2018 Professor, Department of Physics, Nagoya University
• 2018 Specially Appointed Professor, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology

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Admin Experience

• 2005 Steering Committee, The Physical Society of Japan
• 2009 Program Executive Committee, 11th International Conference on Ferrites
• 2011 NPG Asia Materials (Springer Nature), Associate Editor
• 2013 Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the Magnetics Society of Japan & Magune, The Magnetics Society of Japan
• 2013 Award Nomination Committee, The Magnetics Society of Japan
• 2017 Secretaty, Society of Spintronics, Japan Society of Applied Physics
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Awards and Honors

• 2000 13th Hiroshi Ando Young Researchers’ Award
• 2004 3rd Funai Information Science Young Researchers’ Award
• 2004 Kenjiro Nakamura Research Award
• 2005 Young Scientists’ Prize, the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
• 2007 Tokyo Tech Challenging Research Award
• 2011 MSL Director Award
• 2013 ICF 11 New Product & Novel Technology Award
• 2016 13th Joint MMM-Intermag Best Poster Award
• 2019 Magnetics Society of Japan Excellent Research Award

 
Research Interests

• Nano-scale Magnetism
• Spintronics
• Multoferroics