Sadamichi Maekawa Ph.D.

Position Department / Business Unit
Professor Institute for Materials Research
Institution Disciplines
Tohoku University Nanostructures
City State / Provence
Sendai
Country Website
Japan link
Fax
+81-22-215-2006

Dr. Maekawa's main research topics include: Solid State Theory, Theory of electronic properties in strongly correlated electron systems, Theory of transport in magnetic nanostructures.

Education

April 1975, Dr. Sc., Tohoku University, March 1971, M. Sc., Osaka University, March 1969, B. Sc., Osaka University

Career Highlights

2006-present: Deputy Director, Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University
2005-present: Honda Professor, Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University
1997-present: Professor, Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University
1988-1997: Professor, Department of Applied Physics, Nagoya University
1984-1988: Associate Professor, Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University
1971-1984: Research Associate, Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University

2004-present: Advisory Board: National Institute of Natural Sciences, Institute for Molecular Science
2004-present: Science Adviser, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research
2002-2004: Advisory Board: Materials & Structure Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2000-2004: Advisory Board: The Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo
1997-2001: Visiting Professor, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University
1996-1997: Visiting Professor, Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University
1992-1995: Visiting Professor, Department of Physics, University of Tokyo
1989-1990: Visiting Professor, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University
1975-1976: Post Doctoral Fellow, IBM Watson Research Center, New York
1978-1985: Visiting Scientist (Summer Faculty Member), IBM Watson Research Center, New York
1984: Visiting Scientist, Institute fur Festkorperforschung, Julich

Awards

The title of Honda Professor (2005, 2006)
Magnetics Society of Japan Award (2003)
Fellow of Institute of Physics and Chartered Professor
Humboldt Prize (2001)

Books

Spin Dependent Transport in Magnetic Nanostructures; CRC Press (2002)
Physics of Transition Metal Oxides (Springer, 2004)
Concepts in Spin Electronics (Oxford University Press, 2006)

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