Yoshinori Tokura


Yoshinori Tokura is a Japanese physicist, Professor at University of Tokyo and Director of Center for Emergent Matter Science at RIKEN. He is a specialist in physics of strongly correlated electron systems and known for his work in high-temperature superconductivity, Mott transition, colossal magnetoresistance, Multiferroics, and magnetic skyrmions.

Biography

Tokura was born in Nishiwaki, Hyōgo, Japan. He holds a: B.S. in Applied Physics, the University of Tokyo, and a M.S. and Ph.D in that subject from the same university. His subsequent career has also been at the University of Tokyo, rising from Research Associate to Lecturer in the Dept. of Applied Physics, then Assistant Professor and Professor in the Dept. of Physics, and finally, from 1995 on, Professor in Dept. of Applied Physics.
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He is a Member of the Science Council of Japan, and a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

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