◐ Kantaro Murayama
Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae

A short version of my academic background and experience.

Positions

  • 2026 Oct – Present

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow

    Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, USA

    Sun Research Group.

  • 2026 Apr – 2026 Sep

    Postdoctoral Researcher

    Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University

    Kageyama Lab.

  • 2023 Apr – 2026 Mar

    JSPS Research Fellow (DC1)

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

    Held during Ph.D. studies at Kyoto University.

Experience

  • 2026 Jan – 2026 Feb

    Research Placement (Visiting Researcher)

    Richard Dronskowski Group, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

    Funded by the JST ASPIRE program.

Education

  • 2023 Apr – 2026 Mar

    Ph.D. in Engineering

    Department of Energy and Hydrocarbon Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University

    Advisor: Prof. Hiroshi Kageyama.

  • 2021 Apr – 2023 Mar

    M.S. in Engineering

    Department of Energy and Hydrocarbon Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University

  • 2017 Apr – 2021 Mar

    B.S. in Engineering

    Department of Industrial Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University

Funding

  • 2023 Apr – 2026 Mar

    JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC1)

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

    Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, Grant No. JP23KJ1395 (KAKEN ↗).

International Talks

Three most recent oral presentations.

  • 2025 Jan. “High-Pressure Synthesis of New Compounds and Anion-Redox Chemistry” International Core-to-Core Symposium on Mixed-Anion Compounds 2025, JST ASPIRE Kick-off, Université de Lille, France (oral).
  • 2024 Mar. “Polar to nonpolar transition in metal and insulator” International Core-to-Core Symposium on Mixed-Anion Compounds 2024, Institut des Matériaux de Nantes Jean Rouxel (IMN), France (oral).
  • 2024 Mar. “Polar to nonpolar structural phase transitions in metals and insulators” Kyoto University, University of Bordeaux Strategic Partnership Symposium 2024, Université de Bordeaux, France (oral).
Show all 5 earlier international talks
  • 2025 Dec. “Lattice softening and spatiotemporal dynamics in a polar metal LiReO3” 2nd International Symposium on Solid-State Chemistry (ISSSC2025), Matsue (poster).
  • 2023 Mar. “Chemical Pressure Effects on 15R-SrVO2.2N0.6 with Anion-Vacancy Order” International Collaboration Meeting on Mixed-Anion Compounds, University of Oxford, UK (poster).
  • 2022 Aug. “Effects of chemical pressure on the two-dimensional structural 15R-SrVO2.2N0.6 with anion-vacancy sequence” IUMRS-ICMRS 2022, Kyushu University, Fukuoka (oral).
  • 2022 Jan. “Ca-Substitution Effects on the Structural Stability and Physical Properties of 15R-SrVO2.2N0.6” International Core-to-Core Conference on Mixed Anion Research for Energy Conversion, Kyoto (poster).
  • 2021 Dec. “Ca substitution effect in the two-dimensional electron system SrVO2.2N0.6 with superlattices of anion vacancy” International Conference on Mixed Anion Compounds, Kobe (poster).

Talks in Japan

Three most recent presentations.

  • 2024 Sep. 「散漫な相転移を示す極性金属」日本物理学会 第79回年次大会(北海道大学)、口頭発表。
  • 2024 Mar. 「金属および絶縁体における極性非極性転移」第71回応用物理学会春季学術講演会(東京都市大学)、口頭発表。
  • 2024 Jan. “Ordered Rock-Salt Oxides with Anion-Redox Chemistry” 学術変革領域A「超セラミックス」第四回若手スクール、ポスター発表。
Show all 9 earlier talks in Japan
  • 2024 Jan. 「金属と絶縁体における極性非極性転移」第6回固体化学フォーラム研究会、ポスター発表。
  • 2023 Aug. “Ordered Rock-Salt Oxides with Anion-Redox Chemistry” 学術変革領域A「超セラミックス」第三回若手スクール(東北大学)、ポスター発表。
  • 2023 Jul. “Ordered Rock-Salt Oxide Polymorphs with Anion Redox Chemistry” 田中研・陰山研・太田研共同研究 研究会(大阪大学)、口頭発表。
  • 2023 Apr. “Ordered Rock-Salt Oxides with Anion-Redox Chemistry” 学術変革領域A「超セラミックス」第二回若手スクール(九州大学)、ポスター発表。
  • 2022 Sep. 「アニオン欠損秩序を持つ二次元構造15R-SrVO2.2N0.6に対する化学圧力の影響」第83回応用物理学会秋季学術講演会(東北大学)、口頭発表。
  • 2022 Mar. 「アニオン空孔秩序を有する15R-SrVO2.2N0.6の構造および物性に及ぼす化学圧力の影響」複合アニオン化合物の創生と新機能 最終発表会、ポスター発表。
  • 2022 Mar. 「極性金属と極性絶縁体の間における固溶体合成」日本セラミックス協会 2022年年会、口頭発表。
  • 2021 Nov. 「極性金属における金属絶縁体クロスオーバー」第3回界面ナノ科学研究会、口頭発表。
  • 2021 Sep. 「酸窒化物SrVO2.2N0.6に対するAサイトドープの影響」第82回応用物理学会秋季学術講演会、口頭発表。

Research Interests

Topics

Oxides and mixed-anion compounds (oxyhydrides, oxynitrides, nitride-hydrides), polar metals, anion-redox chemistry, high-pressure synthesis, topochemical reactions.

Techniques

Solid-state synthesis, high-pressure reactions under GPa-scale, X-ray / neutron diffraction, Rietveld refinement, magnetic and electric transport measurements. Advanced measurements such as XAS, XMCD, etc., using synchrotron X-ray.

Languages

Japanese (native), English (fluent).

Service

Peer review activity

  • Loading…