Invitees in the 2025 academic year

The 8th Symposium on International Joint Graduate Program in Materials Science

The International Symposium was held on November 4 to 7, 2025(JST). Lecturers line up in the lecture order.

• Lecturer	Affiliation	Lecture Title
  Dr. Xue HAN	RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science	Reconstructing the Wavefunction of Magnetic Topological Insulators MnBi2Te4 and MnBi4Te7
  Dr. Michael MAN	Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology	From Bright to Dark: Resolving Valley Depolarization Pathways in Monolayer WS2
  Dr. Chien-Lung HUANG	National Cheng Kung University	Non-Fermi-liquid behavior close to a ferromagnetic quantum critical point
  Dr. Xing TONG	Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory	Breaking the vitrification limitation of monatomic metals
  Dr. Roman KHYMYN	University of Gothenburg	Mutual synchronization of large arrays of spin-Hall nano-oscillators
  Dr. Mingwei ZHANG	University of California, Davis	High-Temperature Mechanical Properties of NbTaTi-based Refractory High-Entropy Alloys
  Dr. Ridwan SAKIDJA	Missouri State University	Physics-Informed, ML-Driven Representations for Materials and Quantum Systems
  Dr. Guo-qing ZHENG	Okayama University	Spin-Triplet Topological Superconductors
  Dr. Jia-Xin YIN	Southern University of Science and Technology	Quantum tuning of intertwined kagome orders
  Dr. Youichi YANASE	Kyoto University	Quantum geometry in unconventional superconductors
  Dr. Fulin WANG	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	Strain localization induced by lamellar LPSO phase in Mg alloys
  Dr. Heyang CHEN	Nanyang Technological University	Robust Mechanical Properties of Ag2Se1-xTex thermoelectric materials

GP-MS Lecture Series Part-4

The hybrid lecture was given on March 3, 2026, by Prof. Mathias Kläui

• Lecturer	Affiliation	Lecture Title
  Prof. Mathias Kläui	Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz	Tutorial on Disruptive Approaches in Spintronics: materials with designed symmetries and novel magnetic order combined with ultra-efficient reading & writing

GP-MS Lecture Series Part-3

The hybrid lecture was given on December 2, 2025, by Dr. Anna Kosogor

• Lecturer	Affiliation	Lecture Title
  Dr. Anna Kosogor	University of Vienna	Phase Transitions and Related Phenomena in Functional Materials

GP-MS Lecture Series Part-2

The hybrid lecture was given on July 28, 2025, by Prof. Gaowu Qin

• Lecturer	Affiliation	Lecture Title
  Prof. Gaowu Qin	Shenyang University of Chemical Technology	Mg Alloys: Shifting Structural Materials to Functional Materials

GP-MS Lecture Series Part-1

The hybrid lecture was given on July 3, 2025, by Dr. Shingo Ito

• Lecturer	Affiliation	Lecture Title
  Dr. Shingo Ito	Nanyang Technological University	Nitrogen-Embedded Aromatic Molecules:From Synthetic Exploration to Functional Applications

Invitees in the 2024 academic year

The 7th Symposium on International Joint Graduate Program in Materials Science

The International Symposium was held on November 18 to 21, 2024(JST). Lecturers line up in the lecture order.

• Lecturer	Affiliation	Lecture Title
  Prof. Sang-Koog Kim	Seoul National University	Dynamic Properties of 3D Vortex Structures in Magnetic Nanoelements
  Prof. Marco Beleggia	University of Modena and Reggio Emilia	Magnetism of Dipolar-Dominated Nanoparticle Superstructures
  Prof. Manuel Smeu	Binghamton University	Battery simulations with ab initio molecular dynamics
  Dr. Zhirong Zhao-Karger	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Exploring Battery Materials for Rechargeable Calcium Batteries
  Dr. Sibylle Riedel	Helmholtz Institute Ulm	Towards practical Calcium-Sulfur Batteries
  Prof. An-Chou Yeh	National Tsing Hua University	EFFECT OF GRAIN BOUNDARY SERRATION TREATMENT ON HOT DEFORMATION AND CREEP BEHAVIOUR OF UDIMENT-720LI SUPERALLOY
  Prof. Geir Martin Haarberg	Norwegian University of Science and Technology	Electrolysis to Produce Light Metals from Molten Salts Electrolytes
  Prof. Xin Lu	University of Science and Technology Beijing	Upcycling of reactive metals through molten salt electrolysis
  Prof. Yan Ma	Delft University of Technology	Sustainable ironmaking with hydrogen and ammonia
  Prof. Sharvan Kumar	Brown University	Deformation Behavior of Mo-Si-B Alloys
  Prof. Jiajun Gu	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	2D quantum sheets as electrode materials for supercapacitors: tiny building blocks help facilitate mass transport in a limited space
  Prof. Chi-Chang Hu	National Tsing Hua University	Energy Storage Techniques in Laboratory of Electrochemistry & Advanced Materials at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan

GP-MS Lecture Series Part-3

The hybrid lecture was given on October 31, 2024, by Prof. Zheng Ming Sun

• Lecturer	Affiliation	Lecture Title
  Prof. Zheng Ming Sun	Southeast University	MAX phases, MXenes and beyond

GP-MS Lecture Series Part-2

The hybrid lecture was given on September 24, 2024, by Prof. Sharven Kumar

• Lecturer	Affiliation	Lecture Title
  Prof. Sharvan Kumar	Brown University	An Introduction to Dislocations in Metals and Intermetallics

GP-MS Lecture Series Part-1

The hybrid lecture was given on July 19, 2024, by Dr. Guide Link

• Lecturer	Affiliation	Lecture Title
  Dr. Guido Link	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Microwave Processing of Materials, Benefits and Challenges

Invitees in the 2023 academic year

GP-MS Lecture Series Part-4

The hybrid lecture was given on March 18, 2024, by Prof. Michael De Volder

• Lecturer	Affiliation	Lecture Title
  Prof. Michael De Volder	University of Cambridge	Fuelling the Green Energy Transition: Extending Lifetime and Boosting Energy Density of Lithium-Ion Batteries

GP-MS Lecture Series Part-3

The hybrid lecture was given on February 16, 2024, by Prof. Andrew A. Gewirth

• Lecturer	Affiliation	Lecture Title
  Prof. Andrew A. Gewirth	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Electrochemistry at Interfaces: Structure and Reactivity

The 6th Symposium on International Joint Graduate Program in Materials Science

The International Symposium was held on November 28 to December 1, 2023(JST). Lecturers line up in the lecture order.

• Lecturer	Affiliation	Lecture Title
  Prof. Kenji Nomura	University of California San Diego	Recent advancement of Oxide TFT technology
  Prof. Seung Sae Hong	University of California, Davis	Freestanding complex oxide membranes and heterostructures
  Prof. Shan Shi	Hamburg University of Technology	Nanoporous metals by dealloying - more strength with less material?
  Prof. Jiuhui Han	Tianjin University of Technology	Evolution of porosity and phases during vapor phase dealloying
  Prof. Yiqiang Zhang	Zhengzhou University	Printed high-performance perovskite solar cells: Ink engineering, interfacial engineering, and charge-carrier kinetics regulation
  Dr. Gennady Cherkashinin	Technical University of Darmstadt	Understanding interfacial electronic properties as key for efficient materials for energy storage and energy conversion
  Prof. Teruyuki Ikeda	Ibaraki University	High-throughput exploration of multicomponent material systems using composition graded materials
  Prof. G. Jeffrey Snyder	Northwestern University	Strategies for engineering complex thermoelectric materials
  Prof. Cheol Hwan Park	Seoul National University	Magnetic anisotropy and magnetic ordering of transition-metal phosphorus trisulfides
  Prof. Jan M Tomczak	King's College London	Transport properties of correlated narrow-gap semiconductors
  M.Sc.Junfeng Qiao	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne	Automated high-throughput Wannierization
  Prof. Ke Chen	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	Fabricating superamphiphilic surface to enhance the interfacial bonding strength of TC4 and non-polar UHMWPE
  Prof. Sylvain Dancette	National Institutes of Science and Technology, Lyon	Ductile fracture in metals revisited by 3D imaging and finite element analysis

GP-MS Lecture Series Part-2

The hybrid lecture was given on November 20, 2023, by Prof. Geir Martin Haarberg

• Lecturer	Affiliation	Lecture Title
  Prof. Geir Martin Haarberg	Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)	Metal Production by Electrolysis in Molten Salts and Aqueous Electrolytes

GP-MS Lecture Series Part-1

The Online lecture was given on July 5, 2023, by Prof. Maximilian Fichtner

• Lecturer	Affiliation	Lecture Title
  Prof. Maximilian Fichtner	Helmholtz Institute Ulm (HIU)	Electrode Materials