International Visiting Professors and Researchers
The Institute for Solid State Physics (ISSP) recognizes that international collaboration contributes to global physics community by envisioning, creating, testing and implementing new directions. ISSP seeks opportunities to expand collaboration with researchers from around the world through various programs including the International Visiting Professors Program. A new international collaboration initiative started in 2017:
List of International Visiting Professors
Note: Fiscal years (FY) are based on the Program’s invitation cycle
(September - August). Actual visit periods may differ from the
scheduled periods.
| Name | Period | Research | Affiliation | Hosted by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. BARRAZA- LOPEZ, Salvador |
Sep. 2025-Mar. 2026 (planned) |
Theoretical study of two-dimensional materials for second harmonic generation | University of Arkansas, Department of Physics (USA) |
Prof. OZAKI, Taisuke |
| Associate Prof. ZHANG, Tiantian |
Oct. 2025-Mar. 2026 (planned) |
Topological and chiral phonons and their dynamics | Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences(China) | Prof. OKA, Takashi |
| Prof. PARK, Byong-Guk |
Oct. 2025-Jan. 2026 (planned) |
Enhanced spin-orbit torques in magnetic trilayers with a high crystalline (anti-)ferromagnet | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)(Korea) | Associate Prof. MIWA, Shinji |
| Associate Prof. LEE, Hyun-Yong |
Feb. 2026-Aug. 2026 (planned) |
Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics of a Dipole Moment Conserved System | Division of Display and Semiconductor Physics Korea University, Sejong (Korea) | Prof. KAWASHIMA, Naoki |
| Associate Prof. RONETTI, Flavio |
May 2026-Aug. 2026 (planned) |
Theoretical study of transport properties of anyons in fractional quantum Hall states | Centre de Physique Théorique (CPT, CNRS) - Univeristy of Aix-Marseille, France(France) | Associate Prof. KATO, Takeo |
| Name | Period | Research | Affiliation | Hosted by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. HERBUT, Igor |
Oct. 2024-Feb. 202 | Interactions and phase transitions in semimetals | Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University(Canada) | Prof. OSHIKAWA, Masaki |
| Associate Prof. LU, Yuan-Ming |
Dec. 2024-Mar. 2025 | Theoretical study of topological phases with broken symmetries | Ohio State University(USA) | Prof. OSHIKAWA, Masaki |
| Prof. ZHAO, Zhigang |
Jan. 2025-Feb. 2025 | Laser development for Laser photoemission spectroscopy | Shandong University (China) |
Prof. KOBAYASHI, Yohei |
| Name | Period | Research | Affiliation | Hosted by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. MARCENAT, Christophe |
Mar. 2024-May 2024 | Developments of thermal property measurement techniques and their applications to the reentrant superconductor UTe2 | Interdisciplinary Research Institute of Grenoble (IRIG), Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) (France) |
Assoc. Prof. KOHAMA, Yoshimitsu |
| Prof. DRICHKO, Natalia |
May. 2024-Jul. 2024 | Exploring Novel Quantum Phenomena in Organic Mott Insulators | Department of Physics and Astronomy，Johns Hopkins University (USA) |
Assoc. Prof. YAMASHITA, Minoru |
| Dr. PORTUGALL, Oliver |
Nov. 2023-Dec. 2023 Feb. 2024-Mar. 2024 |
Advanced development of megagauss-field-generation techniques using the singleturn coil method and its application to condensed matter physic | Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses, Toulouse, CNRS (France) |
Prof. MATSUDA, Yasuhiro H. |
| Name | Period | Research | Affiliation | Hosted by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. BOVENSIEPEN, Uwe |
Oct. 2022- Mar. 2023 | Electron-phonon coupling in transition metal dichalcogenides and related two-dimensional materials investigated by time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy | University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany) |
Assoc. Prof. OKAZAKI, Kozo |
| Prof. KIM, Yongmin |
Sep. 2022- Feb. 2023 | Phase transition behavior of VO2 and related crystals, and physical properties of two-dimensional materials under pulsed magnetic fields | Dankook University (Korea) |
Prof. MATSUDA, Yasuhiro H. |
| Name | Period | Research | Affiliation | Hosted by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. BATZILL, Matthias Marcus |
Jun. 2022- Aug. 2022 | Electronic and Magnetic properties of Nanostructures in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides | the University of South Florida (USA) |
Prof. HASEGAWA, Yukio |
| Deputy Director PORTUGALL, Oliver |
May 2022 - Nov. 2022 | Advanced development of megagauss-field- generation techniques using the single-turn coil method and its application to condensed matter physics | Laboratoire National des Champs Magne ́tiques Intenses, Toulouse (France) |
Prof. MATSUDA, Yasuhiro H |
| Prof. HADDAD, Sonia |
Jun. 2022-Mar. 2023 | Theoretical study of electrical and thermal transport properties of topological materials: the case of twisted bilayer graphene and Weyl semimetals | Université Tunis El Manar(Tunisia) | Prof. OSADA, Toshihito |
| Name | Period | Research | Affiliation | Hosted by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Associate Prof. RIETVELD, Ivo B |
Nov. 2020- Aug. 2021 | Organic crystalline polymorphism in need of structural and energetic precision to improve understanding and control | Université Paris Descartes (France) |
Prof. YAMAMURO, Osamu |
| Prof. CHEN, Shaoqiang |
Dec. 2020- May. 2021 | Ultrafast Lasing Dynamics and Exciton Effects in Single-Crystal Perovskite Microcavities | East China Normal University (China) |
Prof. AKIYAMA, Hidefumi |
| Name | Period | Research | Affiliation | Hosted by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. KANG, Woun | Jul. 2019-Feb. 2020 | Properties of Low-Dimensional Metallic Electrons under very High Magnetic Fields | Department of Physics, Ewha Womans University (South Korea) | Assoc. Prof. OSADA, Toshihiko |
| Dr. SINGH, Yogesh | Nov. 2019 - May. 2020 | Search for Heavy Fermion Superconductivity in the Kondo Lattice Material Yb2Fe3Si5 |
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali (India) | Prof. SAKAKIBARA, Toshiro |
| Name | Period | Research | Affiliation | Hosted by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. CHENG, Jinguang | May 2019- Aug.2019 | Development of the multianvil module for high-pressure measurements above 20 GPa and exploration of unconventional superconductivity near the pressure-induced quantum critical point | Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China) | Prof. UWATOKO, Yoshiya |
| Assoc. Research Prof. DRICHKO, Natalia | Sep.2018- Feb.2019 | Investigation of magnetic properties of organic Mott insulators κ-(BEDT-TTF)2Hg(SCN)2X (X=Cl, Br) | Johns Hopkins University (U.S.) | Prof. NAKATSUJI, Satoru and Prof. MORI, Hatsumi |
| Assoc. Prof. TAKAHASHI, Susumu | Sep.2018- Dec.2018 | Investigation of surface spin properties using STM-based ESR spectroscopy | University of Southern California (U.S.) | Prof. HASEGAWA, Yukio |
| Name | Period | Research | Affiliation | Hosted by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. HICKS, Clifford W. | May 2018-Aug. 2018 | Study of quantum transport of correlated electron systems under uniaxial pressure | Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids (Germany) | Prof. NAKATSUJI, Satoru |
| Assoc. Prof. RAN, Ying | Jan. 2018-Apr. 2018 | Novel correlation-driven physics and photoinduced phenomena in quantum materials | Boston College (U.S.) | Prof. OSHIKAWA, Masaki |
| Dr. SALZMANN, Ingo | Sep. 2017-Dec. 2017 | Corelation of structure and electronic properties of organic semiconductor and charge transfer film and thin crystal | Institute for Physik, Supramolecular Systems, Humboldt Univers itat zu Berlin (Germany) | Prof. MORI, Hatsumi and Prof. YOSHINOBU, Jun |
| Assistant Prof. NOVAK, Mario | Sep. 2017-Mar. 2018 | Weyl semimetals and Murunskite Crystals as new routes in material investigation | University of Zagreb (Croatia) | Prof. HIROI, Zenji |
List of International Visiting Researchers
| Name | Period | Research | Affiliation | Hosted by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZALIZNYAK, Igor | Sep. 2023 - Nov. 2023 Mar.2024 - May.2024 |
Study on Magnetism using Inverse Rowland Inelastic Spectrometer | Brookhaven National Laboratory (USA) |
Assoc. Prof. MASUDA, Takatsugu |
| SAHA, Kush | Jul. 2024 - Aug. 2024 (planned) | Emergent topological states in electron-phonon systems in external fields | National Institute of Science Education and Research Bhubaneswar (India) | Prof. OKA Takashi |
| Name | Period | Research | Affiliation | Hosted by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LI, Zhou | Nov. 2021- Feb. 2022 | Linear and nonlinear terahertz response in Weyl semimetal WTe2 | Chinese Academy of Science Terahertz Center | Assoc. Prof. MATSUNAGA Ryusuke |
| Name | Period | Research | Affiliation | Hosted by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WANG, Zhe | Sep. 2018- Oct. 2018 | Quantum criticality of an Ising-like spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic chain – a study by high-field magnetocaloric-effect and specific-heat measurements | Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf (Germany) | Assoc. Prof. KOHAMA, Yoshimitsu |
| ZALIZNYAK, Igor | Oct. 2019- Dec. 2019 | Dimensional Cross-Over and Spinon Confinement in Sr2CuO3 | Brookhaven National Laboratory (U.S.) | Assoc. Prof. MASUDA, Takatsugu |
| Hua Chen | Nov. 2018- Dec. 2018 | Study of novel interfacial and topological effect in Weyl magnets | Colorado State University (U.S.) | Prof. OTANI Yoshichika |
| Name | Period | Research | Affiliation | Hosted by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ERNST, Arthur | Jan.2018- Feb.2018 | Electronic states and magnetism of ferromagnetic nitride monolayers with magnetic atoms | Institut für Theoretische Physik, Johannes Kepler Universität (Austria) | Prof. KOMORI, Fumio |
| NUGROHO, Agustinus Agung | Dec. 2017- Jan. 2018 | Exploration of Topological Properties in Correlated Electron Systems | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Institute Teknologi Bandung（Indonesia) | Prof. NAKATSUJI, Satoru |
| CHANDARA, Premala | Mar.2018- May 2018 | Study of novel quantum phenomena in quadrupolar Kondo lattice | Rutgers University (U.S.) | Prof. SAKAKIBARA Toshiro and Prof. NAKATSUJI, Satoru |
Joint Research by International Collaboration Program
| Name | Research subject | Affiliation | Hosted by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Development of a THz laser setup for ultrahigh magnetic fields | Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses (France) | Associatte Prof. MIYATA, Atsuhiko |
| Name | Research subject | Affiliation | Hosted by |
|---|---|---|---|
| WU, Yuh-Renn | Student exchange program between The Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo and College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National Taiwan University | College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National Taiwan University (Taiwan) | Prof. AKIYAMA, Hidefumi |
| Name | Research subject | Affiliation | Hosted by |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHAHI, Prashant | Thermoelectric performance optimization of Pb1-xSnxSe topological materials via high-pressure | D.D.U. Gorakhpur University (India) | Prof. UWATOKO, Yoshiya |
| Name | Research subject | Affiliation | Hosted by |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHAHI, Prashant | Study of ultrashort pulse laser system | D.D.U. Gorakhpur University (India) | Prof. UWATOKO, Yoshiya |
| KIM, Changyoung | Ultrafast control of the work function | Institute for Basic Science (IBS) of Korea | Prof. KOBAYASHI, Yohei |
| ZHAO, Zhigang | Study of ultrashort pulse laser system | Shandong University (China) | Prof. KOBAYASHI, Yohei |
| KUMAR, Jitender | Search for Multiferroic Nature of Ludwigites at Low Temperatures and High Magnetic Fields | Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune (India) | Assoc. Prof. TOKUNAGA Masashi |
| YAN, Binghai | Surface electronic states of topological matter | Wiseman Institute (Israel) | Prof. KOMORI, Fumio |
| SEBASTIAN, Suchitara | High-field Hall resistivity on YBCO | University of Cambridge | Assoc. Prof. KOHAMA, Yoshimitsu |
| Name | Research subject | Affiliation | Hosted by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BALAKIREV, Fedor | Superconducting and Normal State Properties of High-Tc Cuprates in High Magnetic Fields | Los Alamos National Laboratory (U.S.) | Assoc. Prof. KOHAMA, Yoshimitsu |
| PORTUGALL, Oliver | Measurements of Magnetic-Field Induced Novel Quantum Phases in Multiferroic Materials in World Strongest Magnetic Fields | CNRS-LNCMI (France) | Prof. TAKEYAMA, Shojiro |
| KHODAPARAST, Giti | Cyclotron Resonance in InAsP films | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) (U.S.) | Assoc. Prof. MATSUDA, Iwao |
| Name | Research subject | Affiliation | Hosted by |
|---|---|---|---|
| GODDARD, Paul | High-magnetic-field thermodynamics of quantum spin chainsvv | University of Warwick (U.K.) | Assoc. Prof. KOHAMA, Yoshimitsu |
| JI, Sungdae | Pressure-Induced Quantum Phases in a Kitaev honeycomb magnet alpha-RuCl3 | Max Planck POSTECH/HshinchuCenter for Complex Phase Materials (Germany) | Assoc. Prof. MASUDA, Takatsugu |