15:20 – 15:45 GMT, 26 March 2024 ‐ 25 mins
Takayuki Uchihashi - Nagoya University
Nagoya University, Japan
Takayuki Uchihashi is a professor of Physics Department at Nagoya University and an adjunct professor of Exploratory Research Center on Life and Living Systems, National Institute of Natural Science, Japan. In 1998, he obtained Dc. Eng. in Electronics from Osaka University. From 1998 to 2000, he worked at Joint Research Center for Atom Technology (JRCAT) in Tsukuba as a research associate. After that he moved to Trinity College in Dublin in 2002 and worked as a senior researcher in SFI Nanoscience Institute. In 2004, he joined the Physics Department, Kanazawa University as an assistance professor. He became an associate professor in 2008, and a full professor in Physics Department in 2015. In 2017, he moved to Department of Physics, Nagoya University. His research interests include the instrumentation of scanning probe microscopy and its application to proteins and polymers.