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Minoru Otani

Minoru Otani

Professor

Degree

Ph.D. in Science

Education

March 1995
Graduated, School of Engineering Science, Osaka University
April 1995
Entered Master's Program in Physics, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University
March 1997
Completed Master's Program in Physics, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University
April 1997
Entered Doctoral Program in Physics, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University
March 2000
Completed Doctoral Program in Physics, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University

Career

April 2000
JSPS Research Fellow (PD), The Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo
April 2001
Research Associate, Institute of Physics, University of Tsukuba
October 2003
Research Associate, The Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo
April 2007
Assistant Professor, The Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo
April 2008
Researcher, Research Institute for Computational Sciences, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
April 2010
Group Leader, Nanosystem Research Institute, AIST
October 2011
Visiting Researcher, Quantum Simulation Group, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA (until January 2012)
October 2012
Senior Planning Officer (on secondment), Research Strategy Office, Planning Headquarters, AIST (until September 2013)
December 2013
Visiting Researcher, Quantum Simulation Group, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA (until February 2015)
November 2015
Team Leader, Research Center for Computational Design of Advanced Functional Materials, AIST
April 2021
Professor, Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba
(present)

Researchers and Students

Researchers
Shoji Ishibashi
Akitaka Nakanishi
Doctoral students
Kazuhiro Sakuramoto
Masahiko Gen
Master's student
Kodai Hattori

Visiting Researchers

Feb–Mar 2024
Poobodin Mano National Nanotechnology Center (NANOTEC), NSTDA, Thailand
Nov–Dec 2023
Tomonori Kakinoki Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University

Alumni

Senior Researcher
Taisuke Hasegawa → ENEOS Corporation
Postdoctoral Researcher
Fumiaki Kuroda → National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Master's student
Shuya Banno → Honda Motor Co., Ltd.