Tadashi Abukawa

JOB STATUS

Associate Professor
Instituted of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials
Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aobaku, Sendai 980-8577
Email: abukawa＠tohoku.ac.jp

EDUCATION

Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai Japan (1983-1987);
B. Sc in physics.

Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai Japan (1987-1989); M. Sc in physics.

Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai Japan (1989-1992); Ph.D., Doctor of Science in physics.

EMPLOYMENT

Research Associate, Research Institute for Scientific Measurements, Tohoku University, Sendai Japan (1992-2001)

Research Associate, Instituted of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, Sendai Japan (2001)

Associate Professor, Instituted of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, Sendai Japan (Nov. 2001 – present)

RESEARCH SKILLS

Professional skills on surface science techniques such as photoemission, photoelectron diffraction, LEED, RHEED and STM.

Experiences on photoemission experiments using synchrotron radiation at photon factory KEK Japan, SPring-8 Japan and at MAX lab. Sweden.

AWARDS

1. Dec. 2000: 2000 SSSJ Paper Award
Surface structural study by Patterson analysis of thermal diffuse scattering
T. Abukawa, C. M. Wei, T. Hanano, and S. Kono,
J. Surf. Sci. Soc. Japan 20, 535, (1999).

2. Dec.2005: 2005 Scientific Measurements Research Foundation Award

3. Assigned to fellow of the surface science society of Japan from 2013.