Kuniyuki Miwa

Kuniyuki Miwa

I grew up in Osaka, the third largest city in Japan, where I attended elementary school, junior high, and high school. I received my Bachelor’s degree in Applied Physics from the School of Engineering of Osaka University in 2009. Then, I continued my postgraduate studies at Osaka University under the supervision of Professor Hideaki Kasai, and acquired my Ph.D. degree in March 2014 with the thesis “Theoretical study on quantum many-body dynamics of molecular exciton, vibron, plasmon and photon in scanning tunneling microscope-induced light emission.” In my thesis work, I studied how the couplings between multiple quanta (exciton, vibron, plasmon, photon) affect their dynamics, and demonstrate that quantum many-body effects arising from the interplay between these dynamics could strongly modify the luminescence spectra.

I joined Dr. Yousoo Kim’s group at RIKEN in Japan as a postdoctoral fellow in April 2014, and received the scholarship from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) from April 2015 to March 2018. As Kim’s group mainly focuses on experimental studies using low-temperature STM operated under ultrahigh vacuum, I communicated with many experimentalists in this group and which led to numerous kinds of collaborative research with them. While I received the scholarship, I had a chance to work in Professor Misha Galperin’s group at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) for a half year. I reinforced my theoretical techniques by learning the nonequilibrium atomic limit methodologies. In April 2018, I was employed as a postdoctoral fellow of Galperin’s group and contributed to the development of the theoretical method to investigate quantum transport and optical response in single molecule junctions.

As a postdoctoral fellow in Professor George Schatz’s group, my current research interests are focused on the analysis of strongly coupled light-matter system and development of theoretical scheme where the Hamiltonian model is constructed with realistic parameters and the system properties are evaluated quantitatively.

Outside of the lab, I enjoy playing tennis, reading books, and traveling.

kuniyuki.miwa@northwestern.edu