Invitees in the 2022 academic year

GP-MS Lecture Series Part-4

The hybrid lecture was given on January 17, 2023, by Prof. Antonio Facchetti

• Lecturer	Affiliation	Lecture Title
  Prof. Antonio Facchetti	Department of Chemistry and the Materials Research Center, Northwestern University	Organic Semiconductors for Opto-Electronics. Molecular Design, Properties, Molecular Doping and Applications

GP-MS Lecture Series Part-3

The hybrid lecture was given on January 11, 2023, by Prof. Pierre Antoine Geslin

• Lecturer	Affiliation	Lecture Title
  Prof. Pierre Antoine Geslin	INSA de Lyon-CNRS	Solid solution strengthening in random concentrated alloys

GP-MS Lecture Series Part-2

The online lecture was given on December 20, 2022, by Prof. Denis Bartolo

• Lecturer	Affiliation	Lecture Title
  Prof. Denis Bartolo	Laboratoire de Physique, École normale supérieure de Lyon	Active matter: a hydrodynamic perspective to flocking

The 5th Symposium on International Joint Graduate Program in Materials Science

The International Symposium was held on October 24-27, 2022(JST). Lecturers line up in the lecture order.

• Lecturer	Affiliation	Lecture Title
  Prof. Andrew A. Gewirth	University of Illinois	Electrodeposited Metal and Alloy Catalysts for Electrocatalysis
  Prof. Jian-Feng Li	Xiamen University	In-situ Raman Monitoring of Electrochemical Reaction Processes
  Prof. Suvankar Chakraverty	Institute of Nano Science and Technology	KTaO3—The New Kid on the Spintronics Block
  M.Sc. Thorsten Schneider	Technische Universität Darmstadt	Strain Engineering of Antiferroelectricity in NaNbO3 thin films
  Prof. Lambert Alff	Technische Universität Darmstadt	Extended defects, substoichiometric phases and defect interactions in oxide based memristive devices
  Prof. Yingying Peng	Peking University	Magnetic excitations and charge order in high-Tc superconductors
  Prof. Johan Chang	Universität Zürich	Nature and symmetry charge order in cuprate superconductors
  Prof. Rui-Hua He	Westlake University	Anomalous intense coherent secondary photoemission from an oxide semiconductor
  Prof. W. Russ Algar	University of British Columbia	Advancing Materials to Simplify Bioanalysis and Imaging
  Prof. Eylon Yavin	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Developing Bright FIT-PNA RNA Sensors
  Prof. Marc Vendrell	University of Edinburgh	Fluorescent Peptides For Live Cell Imaging And Translational Studies
  Prof. Ramin Golestanian	Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen	Non-reciprocal active matter
  Prof. Andreas Menzel	Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg	Magnetic gels and elastomers — externally tunable soft elastic composite materials
  Prof. Amin Doostmohammadi	University of Copenhagen	Active Matter: Flow, Topology, and Control
  Prof. Yuki Koyano	Kobe University	Imperfect Bifurcation in the Rotation of a Propeller-Shaped Camphor Rotor

GP-MS Lecture Series Part-1

The hybrid lecture was given on September 20, 2022, by Prof. Sylvain Dancette

• Lecturer	Affiliation	Lecture Title
  Prof. Sylvain Dancette	MATEIS Lab & Mechanical Engineering department, INSA Lyon	Mechanical behavior of Advanced High Strength Steel spot welds, experiments and modeling

Invitees in the 2021 academic year

GP-MS Lecture Series Part-6

The online lecture was given on February 16, 2021 by Prof. Citterio Daniel.

• Lecturer	Affiliation	Lecture Title
  Prof. Citterio Daniel	Department of Applied Chemistry, Keio University	Low-cost and simple analytical devices for point-of-care testing (POCT)

GP-MS Lecture Series Part-5

The online lecture was given on December 7, 2021 by Prof. Ryan O’Hayre.

• Lecturer	Affiliation	Lecture Title
  Prof. Ryan O’Hayre	Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Colorado School of Mines	Introduction to Fuel Cells and a Brief Foray into the Emerging Area of Proton-Conducting Ceramic Electrochemical Energy Conversion Devices

GP-MS Lecture Series Part-4

The online lecture was given on December 2, 2021 by Prof. Jun-Sik Lee.

• Lecturer	Affiliation	Lecture Title
  Prof. Jun-Sik Lee	SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, California	Resonant X-ray Scattering and its Application on High-Tc Cuprates

The 4th Symposium on International Joint Graduate Program in Materials Science

The Online Symposium was held on October 25-28, 2021(JST). Lecturers line up in the lecture order.

• Lecturer	Affiliation	Lecture Title
  Prof. George V. Franks	University of Melbourne	3D printing of hierarchical porous ceramics using aqueous suspension-oil formulations
  Prof. Seigo Tarucha	RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science & Center for Quantum Computing	Si Platform for Implementing Fault Tolerant Spin-based Quantum Computing
  Prof. Bart van Wees	University of Groningen	Electrical and thermal generation of spin currents by magnetic graphene
  Prof. Serena Michelle Best	University of Cambridge	Design of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds - Still Learning our ABC?
  Prof. Kirrily Clair Rule	Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization	Neutron Scattering Techniques for Materials Research: An Overview of the ANSTO Neutron Scattering Facilities
  Prof. Maxim Avdeev	Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization	Neutron diffraction: introduction and application for magnetic materials
  Dr. Shinichiro Yano	Nuclear Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Taiwan	Taiwanese cold neutron triple-axis spectrometer SIKA at ANSTO
  Prof. Junichi Takeya	Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo	Large-area ultrathin organic single-crystal wafers for circuits and devices
  Prof. Lionel Hirsch	IMS (Integration: from Material to Systems), CNRS - University of Bordeaux	Organic photodetectors for low-cost instrumentation
  Dr. Yang Wang	Department of Materials Science, Fudan University	Molecular Insights into n-Type Organic Thermoelectric Materials
  Prof. Achim Walter Hassel	Institute of Chemical Technology of Inorganic Materials, Johannes Kepler University Linz	High Precision Corrosion Measurements from Flow Type Scanning Droplet Microscopy with Downstream Analysis
  Prof. Takao Hanawa	Institute of Biomaterials and Bioengineering, Tokyo Medical and Dental University	Metallic Biomaterials from the Viewpoint of Surface Reactions
  Prof. Eriks Rozners	Department of Chemistry, Binghamton University	Sequence Selective Recognition of Double-Stranded RNA by Cationic Nucleobase and Backbone-Modified Peptide Nucleic Acids
  Prof. Gang Chen	School of Life and Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen	PNA-based binders selective for double-stranded RNAs over single-stranded RNAs and their biotech applications
  Prof. Katherine Kedzierska	Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne	Integrated immune networks in SARS-CoV-2 infected pregnant women reveal different NK cell and unconventional T cell activation

GP-MS Lecture Series Part-3

The online lecture was given on September 6, 2021 by Prof. Ying Jin.

• Lecturer	Affiliation	Lecture Title
  Prof. Ying Jin	University of Science and Technology Beijing	A Review on Corrosion Under Insulation

GP-MS Lecture Series Part-2

The following online lecture was held on June 10.

• Lecturer	Affiliation	Lecture Title
  Dr.Keiko Nakamura-Messenger	Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Division, Johnson Space Center	Astromaterial Curation and Research at NASA

GP-MS Lecture Series Part-1

The online lecture was given on April 30, 2021 by Prof. Nagao.

• Lecturer	Affiliation	Lecture Title
  Prof. Michihiro Nagao	National Institute of Standards and Technology	Dynamics studies on nanoscales by means of neutron scattering

Invitees List in the 2020 academic year

GP-MS Lecture Series: Chalcogenide nanoelectronics

The lecture was given on Feb. 24, 2021 by Prof. Kolobov.

• Lecturer	Affiliations	Lecture Title
  Professor Alexander V. Kolobov	Department of Physical Electronics Herzen State Pedagogical University,Russia	Chalcogenide nanoelectronics

GP-MS Lecture Series: Liquid Metal Dealloying: From Fundamentals to Applications

The lecture was given on Dec. 16, 2020 by Prof. Okulov.

• Lecturer	Affiliations	Lecture Title
  Assoc. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ilya Vladimirovich Okulov	Faculty of Production Engineering, University of Bremen, Germany	Liquid Metal Dealloying: From Fundamentals to applications

The 3^rd Symposium on International Joint Graduate Program in Materials Science

The Online Symposium was held on Nov. 16-18, 2020(JST). Lecturers line up in the lecture order.

• Lecturer	Affiliations	Lecture Title
  Prof. Byeong-Joo Lee	Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology	Solute-dislocation binding: understanding the mechanism for room temperature ductility of Mg alloys
  Prof. Ying Jin	National Center for Materials Service Safety, University of Science and Technology Beijing	Calcium Phosphate Coating of Mg/Mg alloys for Biomedical Use
  Dr. Sachiko Hiromoto	Corrosion Property Group, Research Center for Structural Materials, National institute for Materials Science	Calcium Phosphate Coating of Mg/Mg alloys for Biomedical Use
  Prof. Dierk Raabe	Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH	Interplay of Chemistry and Structure at Lattice Defects studied at the Atomic Scale
  Prof. Hans-Joachim Freund	Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft	Model Systems for Heterogeneous Catalysts at the Atomic Scale
  Prof. Andreas Klein	Technical University of Darmstadt, Department of Materials and Earth Sciences	XPS Analysis of Functional Oxides
  Prof. Holger Fritze	Institute of Energy Research and Physical Technologies, Clausthal University of Technology	High-Temperature Acoustic Loss in Piezoelectric CTGS crystals
  Dr. Matthias T. Elm	Center for Materials research, Justus-Liebig University Giessen	Impact of the Surface Space Charge Region on the Charge Transport in Oxides for Energy Applications
  Prof. Peter Walde	Department of Materials, ETH Zürich	Basic Properties of Vesicles as Biomaterials
  Dr. Dora Tang	Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics	Bottom up approaches to synthetic cellularity
  Assist. Prof. Kate Adamala	Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota	Cell-free Protein Production Technologies
  Assist. Prof. Shengxi Huang	Materials Research Institute Pennsylvania State University	Abnormal Raman Modes in Janus Monolayers and Weyl Semimetals
  Prof. Lianming Tong	College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University	Circularly Polarized Raman Scattering of Two-Dimensional Materials
  Prof. Teng Yang	Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences	Double Resonant Raman Scattering in TMDCS

  GP-MS Lecture Series : So What Do You Do with a Combinatorial Materials Discovery?

  The lecture was given on Oct. 16, 2020 by Prof. Takeuchi.

  • Lecturer	Affiliations	Lecture Title
    Prof. Ichiro Takeuchi	Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland	So What Do You Do with a Combinatorial Materials Discovery? (Or How I Went From Finding a Fatigue-free Shape Memory Alloy to Starting a Refrigerator Company)

  GP-MS Lecture Series : Structure Analysis of Materials by Transmission Electron Microscopy

  The lecture was given on Sep. 29 and 30, 2020. by Prof. Murayama.

  • Lecturer	Affiliations	Lecture Title
    Prof. Mitsuhiro Murayama	Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Virginia Polytechnical Institute and State University	Structure Analysis of Materials by Transmission Electron Microscopy

  GP-MS Lecture Series : What is Patent, and what for?

  The lecture was held online on July 6, 2020.

  • Affiliation	Lecturers' name	Title
    Patent Attorney SHIGA International Patent Office	Shu Oikawa	What is patent, and what for?

  Invited Researchers in the 2019 academic year

  GP-MS Lecture Series : Basics and Limitations in Computational Materials Design

  A lecture was given to GP-MS students at Tohoku University.

  • Date:January 21 (Tue), 2020

  • Lecturers’ name, affiliations and title:

    Affiliations	Lecturers' name	Title
    Prof. Emeritus of Tohoku University Abdul Kalam Distingushed Professor of SRM University Director of ICT Innovation Center, Vietnam	Prof. Yoshiyuki KAWAZOE	Basics and Limitations in Computational Materials Design - What we should learn before starting computer simulation -

  The 2^nd Symposium on International Joint Graduate Program in Material Science

  Participated in the symposium and delivered lectures on their own topics.

  • Date: November 4 (Mon.) – 5(Tue.), 2019

  • Lecturers’ names, affiliations:

    Lecturer	Affiliation	Title
    Prof. Peng Zhang	Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Materials Science and Engineering	Nanocomposite Structures for Hydrogen Production
    Prof. Lambert Alff	Technische Universität Darmstadt, Institute of Materials Science	Atomically controlled micrometer thick growth of SrMoO3: A highly conducting perovskite enabling agile and energy efficient all-oxide high frequency devices
    Prof. Yayu Wang	Tsinghua University, Department of Physics, China	Quantum phase transitions in magnetic topological insulators
    Dr. Satoshi Okamoto	Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA	Theoretical investigation of spin-orbit physics and correlation effects in complex oxides and metallic compounds
    Prof. Ichiro Takeuchi	University of Maryland, Materials Science and Engineering, USA	Combinatorial approach and machine learning for materials discovery
    Prof. Zhangquan Peng	The Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, China	Oxygen Electrochemistry in Aprotic Li-O2 Batteries: A Model Study at Au|DMSO Interface
    Prof. Primoz Ziherl	University of Ljubljana and Jozef Stefan Institute, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Slovenia	Two-length scale quasicrystals
    Prof. Florian Mueller-Plathe	Technische Universität Darmstadt, Theoretical Physical Chemistry, Germany	Soft Matter = Hard Science
    Prof.Otto Zhou	University of North Carolina, USA	Developing Medical Imaging Devices Using Carbon Nanotube X-Ray
    Dr. Taner Yildirim	National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST Center for Neutron Research, USA	Pressure and Strain Control of Crystal Symmetry, Fermi Surface Reconstruction and Superconductivity in Weyl semimetal MoTe2
    Prof. Jun Tang	Sichuan University, College of Physics, Radiation Physics and Technology, China	Preliminary Study on Actinides Doped Iron-based Superconductivity
    Dr. Kanagasekaran Thangavel	Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Department of Physics, India	Towards electrically driven organic semiconductor laser
    Prof. Ki Buem Kim	Sejong University, Department of nanotechnology and advanced materials engineering, Korea	High strength ultrafine eutectic alloys with enhanced plasticity
    Prof. Do Hyang Kim	Yonsei University, Department of materials science and engineering, Korea	Metallic glass as a precursor for structural and functional applications
    Prof. Guangyin Yuan	Shanghai Jiao Tong University,National Engineering Research Center of Light Alloy Net Forming, China	Formation mechanism of nanoquasicrystals and effects on the mechanical properties of Mg-Zn-Gd-based alloys
    Dr. Eric Mascot	University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Physics	Discovery of Majorana edge modes in a 2D magnet-superconductor hybrid system
    Dr. Dina Sheyfer	Argonne National Laboratory, Material Science Division	High-speed X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy studies of dynamics in liquid-liquid extraction systems
    Dr. Thomas Pang	GE Additive Japan, General Manager	How Additive Is Driving the Future of Manufacturing
    Prof. Ma Qian	Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Centre for Additive Manufacturing	3D-printed metal bone implants: Current status and outstanding challenges
    Dr. Noriko Read	IHI Europe Ltd. Research & Development Div. General Manager	Trend of Additive Manufacturing in Europe and research activities in academia

  GP-MS Lecture Series : Structure Analysis of Materials by Transmission Electron Microscopy

  Visited us during his stay in Japan, and delivered lectures for our students.

  • Date:July 1 (Mon.) – 5(Fri.), 2019

  • Lecturers’ names, affiliations and titles:

    Affiliations	Lecturers' names	Title
    Virginia Polytechnical Institute and State University Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering,	Prof. Mitsuhiro Murayama	Lecture 1： Introduction to Electron Microscopy: “why should we care and what can we do?”
    		Lecture 2： Transmission Electron Microscopy for Materials Characterization: Overview and some practical examples of major techniques “what should we know to make it useful?”

  2019 Joint Symposium on Material Science and Engineering

  Participated in the 2019 Joint Symposium and delivered lectures in the GP-MS session.

  • Date:June 27, 2019

  • Lecturers’ names, affiliations and titles:

    Affiliations	Lecturers’ name	Title
    The University of British Columbia Department of Materials Engineering	Prof. Chad W Sinclair	Pushing Computational Metallurgy to Predictions on Experimental Timescales
    	Prof. Mathias Militzer	Multi-scale Modelling of Microstructure Evolution

  Tohoku Forum for Creativity Junior Research Program 2019

  Participated in the Tohoku Forum and delivered lectures in the GP-MS session.

  • Date:June 24, 2019

  • Lecturers’ names, affiliations and titles:

    Affiliations	Lecturers’ name	Title
    National Tsing Hua University, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering	Prof. Hsueh-Shih Chen	Application of quantum dots in display and lighting
    	Prof. Ming-Yen Lu	Revealing the atomic arrangements of compounds by using prob-corrected transmission electron microscopy
    University of Science and Technology Beijing School of Materials Science and Engineering	Prof. Wenbin Cao	Controllable Synthesis of TiO2:Toward an efficient photocatalyst

  The 2nd Symposium for World Leading Research Centers

  Participated in the symposium and delivered lectures on the educational system of the universities and the research areas in which they would like to collaborate with Tohoku University in the field of materials science in the session of GP-MS (International Joint Graduate Program in Materials Science).

  • Date:February 2019

  • Lecturers' names and affiliations:

    Affiliations	Lecturers' names
    National Tsing Hua University Department of Materials Science and Engineering	Prof. Ta-Jen Yen
    University of Science and Technology Beijing School of Materials Science and Engineering	Prof. Lu-Ning Wang
    	Prof. Wenbin Cao

  Invited Researchers in the 2018 academic year

  Kick-off Symposium on International Joint Graduate Program in Materials Science

  Participated in the symposium and delivered lectures on the educational system of the universities and the research areas in which they would like to collaborate with Tohoku University in the field of materials science.

  • Date:November 2018

  • Lecturers' names and affiliations:

    Affiliations	Lecturers' names
    Jülich Research Centre Institute of Energy and Climate Research	Prof. Dr.-Ing. Manja Krüger
    	Dr.-Ing. Georg Hasemann
    KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Dr. Anders Eliasson
    	Prof. Par Jonsson
    National Tsing Hua University Depertment of Materials Science and Engineering	Prof. Ta-Jen Yen
    	Prof. Po-Yu Chen
    	Prof. Jyh-Ming Wu
    	Assoc. Prof. An-Chou Yeh
    	Prof. Che-Wei Tsai
    	Prof. Ming-Yen Lu
    Pohang University of Science and Technology Graduate Institute of Ferrous Technology	Prof. Chang-Hee Yim
    	Prof. Nack Joon Kim
    	Prof. Sung-Mo Jung
    	Prof. Chong Soo Lee
    	Assoc. Prof. Yoon-Uk Heo
    Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Materials Science & Engineering	Prof. Zhuguo Li
    	Assoc. Prof. Ke Chen
    	Prof. Zhenshan Cui
    	Prof. Liming Peng
    	Prof. Wu Yixiong
    	Prof. Min Wang
    Technische Universität Darmstadt Department of Materials Science	Prof. Ralf Riedel
    	Ass. Prof. Oliver Clemens
    	Prof. Lambert Alff
    	Prof. Karsten Albe
    The University of British Columbia Department of Materials Engineering	Prof. Warren Poole
    	Prof. Matthias Militzer
    	Prof. Chad W Sinclair
    University of Lyon	Prof. Damien Fabrègue
    	Prof. Wolfgang Ludwig
    	Prof. David Rodney