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Explore 2025 research highlights from UTokyo and Kyushu University featured in elite journals, covering medaka hormones, Denisovan fossils, and next-gen batteries.
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Professor Atsuo Yamada is a professor in the Graduate School of Engineering at The University of Tokyo, where he has served since 2009. He earned his PhD from The University of Tokyo. His academic career includes positions as a research scientist at Sony Research Center from 1990 to 2000, laboratory head at Sony Frontier Science Laboratories from 2000 to 2002, and associate professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology from 2002 to 2009. He also held a visiting scholar position at the University of Texas at Austin from 1996 to 1997 and an invited professorship at the University of Bordeaux in 2005. Yamada directs research on the design and analysis of materials for energy storage and conversion, with a specialty in inorganic industrial materials, focusing on lithium-ion batteries, innovative batteries, solid-state electrochemistry, and host-guest reactions.
His contributions include numerous awards such as the Electrochemical Society of Japan Award for Academic Achievement in 2016, the International Battery Association Research Award in 2016, the American Ceramic Society Ross Coffin Purdy Award in 2016, the Electrochemical Society Battery Division Research Award in 2022, and the EnSM Award from Energy Storage Materials Journal in 2026. He has been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics in 2019 and 2025, and received the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2023. Yamada maintains an active research program through his laboratory at The University of Tokyo, advancing electrochemical energy storage technologies.
Explore 2025 research highlights from UTokyo and Kyushu University featured in elite journals, covering medaka hormones, Denisovan fossils, and next-gen batteries.
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