Introduction

Current position

Research Associate Professor, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University

K408 YITP, Kyoto University

yoshifumi.nakata_at_yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp
(Please replace _at_ with @)

May 2020 – Jul. 2022:

Assistant Professor
@ Photon Science Center, the University of Tokyo (Koashi group)
Oct. 2018 – Mar. 2022:

JST PRESTO reseacher
Jan. 2019 – May 2020:

Research assistant profesor
@ Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University
Aug. 2017 – Dec. 2018:

Project researcher (CREST)
@ Photon Science Center, the University of Tokyo (Koashi group)
Sep. 2015 – Feb. 2017:

Long-term visiting researcher
@ Quantum Information Group, the Autonomous University of Barcelona (with Prof. Winter)
Apr. 2015 – Jul. 2017:

Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (PD)
@ Photon Science Center, the University of Tokyo (Koashi group)
Apr. 2013 – Mar. 2015:

Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research Abroad, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
@ Quantum Information Theory in Hannover, Institute for Theoretical Physics, the Leibniz University of Hannover (with Prof. Werner)
Apr. 2010 – Mar. 2013:

Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (DC1)
@ Physics Department, Faculty of Science, the University of Tokyo
Apr. 2008 – Mar. 2010:

Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
@ Dandi Gudina junior high school in Ethiopia (teacher of Mathematics)

Apr. 2008 – Mar. 2013:

Ph.D., Doctoral Program in Physics
(Absent from Apr. 2008 to Mar. 2010 to attend Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers)
@ Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo
Supervised by Prof. Mio Murao
Thesis: Analysis of many-body Hamiltonian systems in quantum information
Apr. 2006 – Mar. 2008:

Master of Science, Master’s Program in Physics
@ Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo
Supervised by Prof. Mio Murao
Thesis: Analysis of multi-partite entanglement at finite temperature in the 1D XY model
Apr. 2004 – Mar. 2006:

Bachelor of Science
@ Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, the University of Tokyo

2024 FY – 2027 FY: JST PRESTO “Quantum Cooperation between Materials and Information”
2022 FY – 2025 FY: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) 22K03464
2021 FY – 2025 FY: Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) 21H05182 (Head Investigator: Tadashi Takayanagi)
2021 FY – 2025 FY: Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) 21H05183 (Head Investigator: Tomoyuki Morimae)
2018 FY – 2021 FY: JST PRESTO “Quantum state control and functionalization”
2015 FY – 2017 FY: Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (PD), Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows
2013 FY – 2014 FY: Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research Abroad
2010 FY – 2012 FY: Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC1), Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows