Associate Professor Kiyohisa Tanaka

Associate Professor Kiyohisa Tanaka is a member of the UVSOR Synchrotron Facility at the Institute for Molecular Science (IMS), located in Okazaki, Japan, where he is affiliated with the Advanced Solid State Physics research group. He received his Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree from the prestigious University of Tokyo in 2000 followed by his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from the same institution, laying the foundation for a career at the forefront of experimental condensed matter physics.

He started his academic career as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Later he was assigned as an Assistant Professor at Osaka University in 2008 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2013. Since 2014 he has also been serving as an Associate Professor at the Institute for Molecular Science and as an Associate Professor at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies.

Professor Tanaka's research is centred on the investigation of strongly correlated electron materials using Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy (ARPES), a powerful experimental technique that directly maps the electronic band structure of materials by measuring the energy and momentum of electrons emitted from a sample surface upon exposure to synchrotron light. His work exploits the exceptional brightness and tunability of synchrotron radiation available at the UVSOR facility to probe the complex quantum mechanical behaviour that underpins strongly correlated electron systems — a class of materials in which conventional single-electron theories break down due to strong electron–electron interactions.

His work sits at the intersection of synchrotron science and quantum materials research, making significant contributions to the broader international effort to understand and ultimately harness the properties of strongly correlated electron systems.Click his image for more details.