Resarch interests

• Statistical mechanics in atomic transport phenomena
• First-principles calculations of atomic diffusion in solids
• Exploration of new ionic conductors for electrolytes in fuel cells
• Time-evolution simulations in electrochmical systems

Open source codes

• Poisson-Nernst-Planck Simulator (PoNPs)

  PoNPs is a Numerical simulator for the one-dimensional Poisson-Nernst-Planck (1D-PNP) systems. The 1D-PNP equations are numerically solved, to acquire the time dependences of charge-carrier concentration profiles and electric potential profile.

• Atomic diffusivity estimator based on master equation (MASTEQ)

  MASTEQ is a numerical estimator of atomic diffusivity in crystals using a master equation approach. The diffusion tensor is calculated under the independent particle approximation only by specifying the initial and final sites, jump vector, and jump frequency of every atomic jump in unitcell.

Publications

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Education

• 1999-2003 Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University, Received the degree of Bachelor of Engineering
• 2003-2005 Department of Fundamental Energy Science, Graduate School of Energy Science, Kyoto University, Received the degree of Master of Energy Science.
• 2005-2008 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Received the degree of doctor of engineering in materials science.

Research Experience

• 2007-2008 Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Kyoto University
• 2008-2009 Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Kyoto University
• 2009-2010 Research Fellow of Canon Foundation in Europe, Oslo University
• 2010-2011 Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Kyoto University
• 2011-2016 Assistant Professor of Nagoya University
• 2016-present Associate Professor of Kyoto University

Contact

toyoura.kazuaki.5r[at]kyoto-u.ac.jp