daisuke Kiriya

Dr. Daisuke Kiriya is an associate professor at the University of Tokyo. He started his laboratory in April 2022. His research interests are chemical/physical/electrical/quantum functions at the interface of organic and inorganic systems. The research field includes chemistry, materials science, nanoelectronics, and low-dimensional semiconductor devices for the exploration of electronic/optical/quantum functionalities in nanomaterials.

He obtained his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Chemistry from the School of Engineering at Kyoto University, Japan, in 2004, 2006, and 2009, respectively, under Professors Susumu Kitagawa and Ho-Chol Chang. From 2009 to 2011, he served as an assistant professor under Professor Shoji Takeuchi at the Institute of Industrial Science at the University of Tokyo. In 2012, he joined the University of California-Berkeley, EECS as a JSPS postdoctoral fellow under Professor Ali Javey. In 2016, he joined Osaka Prefecture University as an assistant professor (tenure-track) and associate professor in 2020, working with Professor Norifumi Fujimura. From 2022, he served as an associate professor at the University of Tokyo.

Academic appointments

2023-present Exe. Committee, Electronics & Photonics Division, Electrochemical Society

2022-present         Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo

2020-2022              Associate Professor, Osaka Prefecture University

2016-2020               JST PRESTO (Quantum functionalization) Researcher (Co-appointment) 

2016-2020              Assistant Professor (Tenure-track), Osaka Prefecture University

2013-2016               Postdoc, UC Berkeley

2011-2013               JSPS fellow, UC Berkeley (JSPS: Japan society of promotion of science)

2009-2011               Assistant Professor, University of Tokyo

2010-2011               Group leader in ERATO Takeuchi project, JST 

2006-2009               JSPS fellow for young scientist, Kyoto University (JSPS: Japan society of promotion of science)

Awards and Fellowships

2020.5                         The research award from The Society of Materials Science, Japan (JSMS)   

2019.4                         The Young Scientists’ Prize by the Ministry of Education, Japan  

2017.4                         Presentation award, JSMS Committee on Semiconductor Electronics 

2017.1                         Young researcher award, SSSN-Kansai, Symposium on Surface Science and Nanotechnology 

2010.3                         Presentation Award 

                                     90th Annual Meeting of Chemical Society of Japan, Tokyo

2008.9                         Presentation Award

                                     58th Symposium on Coordination Chemistry of Japan, Kanazawa

2008.3                         Presentation Award 

                                     88th Annual Meeting of Chemical Society of Japan, Tokyo

2007.9                         Presentation Award 

                                     1st Annual Symposium of the Japan Society for Molecular Science, Sendai

2006.8                         Poster Prize 

                                     10th International Conference on Molecule-Based Magnets (ICMM), Victoria

2004.9                         Poster Prize 

                                     54th Symposium on Coordination Chemistry of Japan, Kumamoto


2006-2009                  JSPS Research Fellowships for Young Scientists

2011-2013                  JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research Abroad