- 1961 Born in Tokyo, Japan
- 1989 PhD, Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan
Current Positions:
- 2013- Director, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany
(2019- Managing Director (GD)) - 2014- Alexander von Humboldt Professor (W3), Institute for Functional Matter und Quantum Technologies, University of Stuttgart (part-time)
- 2015- Professor, Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, Japan (cross-appointment)
Previous Positions:
- 2011-2015 Professor, Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, Japan
- 2002-2014 Chief Scientist, Magnetic Materials Laboratory, RIKEN, Japan (joint appointment)
- 1999-2011 Professor, Department of Advanced Materials, University of Tokyo, Japan
- 1994-1999 Associate Professor, Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan
- 1992-1994 Lecturer, Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan
- 1990-1992 Postdoctoral Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA
- 1986-1990 Research Associate, Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan
Research Interest
1. Novel electronic phases in correlated transition metal oxides.
2. Exotic superconductivity.
3. Quantum magnetism.
4. Metal-insulator transitions.
5. Oxide electronics.
Publications
Authored 589 scientific publications. 11 research papers appeared in Science, 20 in Nature and 21 in Nature journals (Phys., Mater., Comm., Photonics, Nanotechnology), 68 in Physical Review Letters, and 151 in Physical Review B. Cited more than 34,506 times (Jan. 2020). 92 publications were cited 100 times or more. The WoS lists my citation indices as h-index = 95.
Invited Talks
Gave 205 invited talks at international conferences including plenary talks.
Patent
Correlated electronic phases often compete on a subtle balance and give rise to useful phase change functions for memory and sensors (Takagi, Science 327, 1601-1602 (2010). I filed more than 10 patents, including the negative thermal expansion material (JP5099478, JP5935258 US7632480) and the electronic ice pack material (JP6153194, EP2987841). The patent for electronic Ice Pack lead a collaborative project on polymer glue for IC chip protection with industry (Fuji polymer) through RIKEN.
Honors
1988 IBM Science prize for
“Discovery and Experimental Verification of High Temperature Superconductors”
1988 Japan Applied Physics Society Awards for the best paper of the year 1987,
“High Temperature Superconductivity of La-Ba-Cu Oxide”
1988 Young Scientist Awards from Materials Research Society, USA
1994 Nissan Science Prize for
“Physics and chemistry of high temperature superconductors”
2006 H. Kamerlingh Onnes Prize for
“Pioneering and seminal transport experiments which illuminated the unconventional nature of high temperature superconducting cuprates”
2009 Honda Frontier Prize for
“Pioneering work on physics of correlated electrons”
2010 Prize for Science and Technology, the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister
of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology for
“Development of functional materials based on correlated transition metal oxides”
2010 Fellow of American Physical Society
“For outstanding contributions to the exploration of the physics and materials science of strongly correlated transition metal oxides”
2013 Alexander von Humboldt Professor
2014 Highly Cited Researcher, Thomson Reuters
2017 Outstanding Referee, Physical Society of Japan
2020 Eugen and Ilse Seibold Prize, German Research Foundation
