Seiji Yunoki

Chief Scientist, Computational Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory RIKEN

Seiji Yunoki received his Ph.D in Applied Physics from Nagoya University, Japan, in 1996. He was awarded an Overseas Research Fellowships by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), which allowed him to spend two years at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, USA. After an additional year and a half there, he moved to the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, in 1999 for a two-year postdoctoral position. Subsequently, he spent over four years at SISSA in Trieste, Italy, followed by two and a half years at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, USA. In 2008, he joined RIKEN as an associate Chief Scientist. Currently, he is a Chief Scientist heading the Computational Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory at RIKEN. He also leads the Computational Materials Science Research Team at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS), the Computational Quantum Matter Research Team at the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS), and the Quantum Computational Science Research Team at the RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing (RQC). His research focuses primary on quantum computing and its applications in condensed matter physics.