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Ryuji Takagi, Associate Professor
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Takagi Lab conducts fundamental research in quantum information theory. Drawing on perspectives from physics, information science, and computational science, the lab clarifies the essential properties of quantum systems from an operational viewpoint. Its main research topics include quantum resource theory, quantum entanglement theory, and quantum thermodynamics. Founded in 2024, it is a new lab on the Komaba Campus.
Munehito Arai, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences0 student voices
The Arai Lab conducts experimental and theoretical research to design new proteins that are useful for medicine and industry. Using state-of-the-art protein design methods, the lab aims to develop drugs that target diseases such as viral infections, cancer, and allergies. The lab also works on developing enzymes that efficiently produce biofuels and other products, and on basic research into the mechanisms of protein folding. Combining life sciences, physics, and information science, the lab advances its research from both theoretical and experimental perspectives.
Yuichi Wakamoto, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences0 student voices
The Wakamoto Lab studies the fundamental principles of biological phenomena such as growth, adaptation, evolution, and differentiation, using E. coli, yeast, and cancer cells as models. Organisms are diverse, but some traits and rules are shared across species. The lab explores the origins and significance of these commonalities through both experiments and theory. It focuses in particular on fluctuations, plasticity, and interactions observed at the single-cell level. To do this, the lab develops its own measurement technologies and advances its analyses alongside them.
Yusuke Kato, Professor
Quantum & Condensed Matter0 student voices
The Kato Lab specializes in condensed matter theory (quantum condensed matter physics) and studies phenomena that quantum mechanics produces inside materials. Its central themes are the physics of superconducting states, superfluids and supersolids, and the magnetism and transport phenomena of chiral materials. Superconductivity and superfluidity are prototype phenomena of quantum condensation and quantum many-body physics. The lab is located on the Komaba Campus and accepts graduate students from both the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Science.
Miho Yanagisawa, Associate Professor
Bio & Life Sciences0 student voices
Yanagisawa Lab studies the material properties and physical phenomena of soft matter such as liquid crystals, polymers, and gels. The lab investigates phenomena such as molecular diffusion, structural phase transitions, and phase separation, mainly through experiments. The lab also applies these findings to understanding biological phenomena and to creating microscale materials. Centered on physics, the lab works on research at the boundaries with biology, chemistry, and engineering.
Yuki Hibiya, Associate Professor
Space, Particle Physics & Aerospace0 student voices
Hibiya Lab studies how the solar system was born and how planets such as Earth formed, from the perspective of the evolution of matter. Using knowledge of isotope science, chronology, and mineral chemistry, the lab examines meteorites that fall to Earth as well as rocks from Earth itself. By handling material that came from space firsthand, the lab investigates how Earth and the solar system came to be 4.5 billion years ago.
Ken Sato, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences0 student voices
Sato Lab studies how proteins are transported inside cells (vesicular transport). Cells contain membrane-bound organelles such as the endoplasmic reticulum and the Golgi apparatus, which exchange materials through small membrane sacs called transport vesicles. The lab focuses on vesicular transport in the secretory pathway, investigating how transport vesicles form from the endoplasmic reticulum and how proteins are sorted and carried. The lab mainly uses budding yeast as its model organism and analyzes these processes with bioimaging and with methods that reconstitute the phenomena using artificial membrane vesicles.
Atsushi Ikeda, Associate Professor
Quantum & Condensed Matter0 student voices
The Ikeda Group studies the physics of soft matter and nonequilibrium materials. Many materials around us, like mayonnaise, behave like a liquid when squeezed out of the bottle but hold their shape on a plate. The lab aims to understand this coexistence of solid-like and liquid-like behavior in materials such as glass, lathered shampoo, sand piles, and gels. The lab conducts its research through theoretical analysis based on statistical mechanics and continuum mechanics, together with numerical simulations.
Daisuke Yokogawa, Associate Professor
Chemistry & Catalysis0 student voices
The Yokogawa Lab takes a theoretical chemistry approach to answering the "why" of chemistry. Where things with different properties meet, as at the boundary between water and oil, interesting properties appear that are not seen in either one alone. The lab also pursues research in boundary regions where fields of chemistry overlap, such as organic chemistry and physical chemistry. Using statistical mechanical methods and quantum chemical calculations, the lab strives to calculate under conditions as close to real experiments as possible.
Junichiro Yajima, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences0 student voices
The Yajima Lab investigates the question "What is life?" by studying the mechanisms behind the movements of proteins and cells. The lab aims to uncover the principles by which bio-nanomachines such as kinesin and dynein, as well as cilia and cells, move. The lab pursues both reverse bioengineering, which seeks to understand living things by taking them apart, and forward bioengineering, which builds systems artificially from biological macromolecules. The lab uses advanced measurement and imaging techniques, such as optical tweezers and microscopes that measure positions in three dimensions.
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