Professor Hidekazu Kurebayashi

University College London, UK
Hide Kurebayashi is Professor of Condensed Mater Physics and Nanoelectronics at UCL and a visiting Professor at Tohoku University. Before joining UCL, he worked at University of Cambridge as JST-PRESTO research fellow in the Cavendish laboratory, where he also completed his PhD in 2010. He leads an experimental research group in the London Centre for Nanotechnology, working on spintronics and spin dynamics. His recent research interest includes spin-orbit transport in inversion-broken and/or low-dimensional crystals such as van der Waals materials, neuromorphic computing and coherent photon-magnon coupling in nano-systems. For his research, he received Leverhulme Research Fellowship, The Young Scientists’ Award within The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology by Japanese government, UCL Future Leader Award, JST-PRESTO Research Fellowship, Darwin College Research Fellowship, Runner-up of the Abdus Salam Prize, ORS and the Nakajima Foundation scholarship.