Takafumi Sato is Professor of World Premiere Institute-Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Japan. He received his Doctor of Science from Tohoku University, Japan in 2002. His professional experience while at Tohoku University is as follows: Assistant Professor from 2002-2009, Institute of Excellence in Higher Education at Tohku from 2009-2010, Associate Professor from 2010-2017 and Professor from 2017-2019.
He was recognized for “The Young Scientists’ Prize”, Commendation for Science and Technology by MEXT in 2007 and the “Highly Cited Researcher from Thompson Reuters in 2014. His current research is on the study electronic structure of novel functional materials by using ultrahigh-resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES). His current research targets are the following: search for exotic quasiparticles in topological materials; origin of superconductivity in high-temperature superconductors; spin-dependent electronic structure in strongly spin-orbit-coupled systems; novel electronic states of atomic-layer materials; many-body interactions in strongly correlated electron systems; development of a new ultrahigh-resolution spin-resolved ARPES system.