Associate Professor, Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University

Research areas: Condensed Matter Theory, Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics, Topological Insulators

Award Citation: The AYSF Committee acknowledges his contribution to the topological states in photonics crystals with synthetic dimensions and would like to support his exploration in the direction of many-body physics in synthetic and tunable AMO platforms.

Bio: Dr. Tomoki Ozawa is Associate Professor and Junior Principal Investigator at the Advanced Institute for Materials Research at Tohoku University. He received PhD in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2012. He then spent five years, first as a postdoc and then as a senior postdoc, at the Bose-Einstein Condensation Center at the University of Trento, Italy. He came back to Japan in 2018 to become a Senior Researcher at RIKEN. He moved to Tohoku University in 2020. Dr. Ozawa is a theoretical physicist, and his research area is in the interdisciplinary intersection between condensed matter physics and AMO (atomic, molecular, and optical) physics. He has been a pioneer in applying concepts of topological insulators to AMO platforms, contributing to the development of concepts such as synthetic dimensions, topological lasers, and topological phenomena in driven-dissipative systems. He has co-authored an influential review on topological photonics in Reviews of Modern Physics, which has received more than 2500 citations (Google Scholar). He has been a Tohoku University Distinguished Researcher since 2021, and is a recipient of the Young Scientists' Award from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan.

Personal Web: https://www.wpi-aimr.tohoku.ac.jp/en/research/researcher/ozawa_t.html