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Staff

Tomoaki Yamada received his B.S. degree in Inorganic Materials and Ph.D. degree in Material Science and Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, in 1999 and 2003, respectively. In 2004, he joined the Ceramics Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, where he worked in the field of tunable ferroelectric thin films. In 2008, he became an assistant professor under the Global COE Program in Tokyo Institute of Technology. In 2010, he moved to Nagoya University, Japan, as an associate professor, and was promoted to a full professor in 2021. From 2010 to 2020, he held a concurrent researcher position in the JST-PRESTO program for developing novel piezoelectric nanostructures and energy harvesters. Currently, he is also a visiting professor of Materials Research Center for Element Strategy at Tokyo Institute of Technology. His domains of experience and expertise are functional metal oxide thin films and devices, especially with focus on the manipulation of epitaxial growth, nano-structured interfaces, and characterizations and applications of these hetero-structures. He received the Richard M. Fulrath Award of the American Ceramic Society in 2020 for his achievements so far.
Keyword: Thin film, Nanostructure, Ferroelectric, Piezoelectric, Dielectric, Electro-optic, Electrocaloric

Shinya KONDO skipped his B.S. degree and received his M.S. degree in Materials, Physics, and Energy Engineering and his Ph.D. degree in Energy Engineering from Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, in 2017 and 2020, respectively. From 2019 to 2020, he was research fellow for young scientist of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. In 2020, he became an assistant professor at Okayama University, Okayama, Japan. In 2025, he moved to Nagoya University, Japan, as an assistant professor. His current research interests include functional metal oxide and nitride materials, especially ferroelectric thin films with focus on heteroepitaxial growth, and their dielectric, ferroelectric, and electro-optic properties.
Keyword: Dielectric materials, Thin film, Ferroelectric, Electro-optic

Xueyou YUAN received his B.S. degree (2013) in Material Science and Engineering from China University of Geosciences (Beijing) and Ph.D. degree (2018) in Material Science and Engineering from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), respectively. In 2019, he joined the Nanoionic Devices Group of the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan, where he executed the joint program of developing solid-state electrolyte. In 2020, he moved to Nagoya University, Japan, as a Venture Business Laboratory (VBL) postdoc, then as a research assistant professor in 2022 and research lecture in 2025. His domains of experience and expertise are functional metal oxide ceramics and thin films, especially with focus on the manipulation of epitaxial growth, characterizations, and physical properties and applications of them.
Keyword: Thin film, Ferroelectric, Piezoelectric, Multiferroic, Electro-optic

Kosuke ONO
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• Secretary: 1
• Technical staff: 1
• Researchers: 2

Student

• Graduate student: 12
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Alumni

Takanori Nagasaki received his M.Eng. and D.Eng. degrees from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1983 and 1993, respectively. He was involved in the area of nuclear fusion materials with the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Tokai-mura, Japan, from 1983 to 1995. In 1991, he was with Cambridge University, Cambridge, U.K., as a Visiting Scholar. Since 1995, he has been an associate professor and then professor with Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan. His current research interests include energy-related materials, especially materials to be used in the hydrogen energy system.
Keyword: Proton conduction, Hydrogen embrittlement

Masahito Yoshino earned a B.S. in materials science and engineering in 1998 and a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering in 2003, both from Nagoya University. His research interests are primarily in three areas: phosphors and scintillators, proton conducting oxides, hydrogen embrittlement in steels.
Keyword:  Luminescence, Proton conduction, Hydrogen embrittlement, First principles calculation