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Biography

Ken Sakaushi is currently the Team Leader of Electrochemical Energy Conversion Team at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan. He studied theoretical physics and materials chemistry at Keio University, and electrochemistry at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. In 2013, he has obtained his Ph.D. from the Leibniz Institute for Solid-State and Materials Research / TU Dresden with a Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst Grant. Upon completing his doctorate, he joined the Colloid Chemistry Department at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, directed by Prof. Dr. Markus Antonietti, on a Max Planck Society Fellowship. His research is recognized by several awards such as Young Scientist Award (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology), CSJ Award for Young Chemist (The Chemical Society of Japan), or PCCP Prize (The Chemical Society of Japan / Royal Society of Chemistry).

His team conducts research aiming to solve modern energy issues through unveiling basic principles of electrode processes and synthesis of modern electrochemical materials towards development of advanced electrochemical technologies. His team puts special emphasis on research in collaboration with experiments, theoretical calculation, and data science, focusing on the following two points: (1) uncovering reaction mechanisms by using model electrodes, and (2) design of novel high-performance electrocatalysts.

He was elected as a visiting by-fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, and had the opportunity to carry out study on structure-property relationships via charge transport mechanism of model materials at the Sirringhaus group.

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Latest news

Contact-Limited Temperature Dependence of Charge Transport Paper Published in Journal of Physics: Materials

2 April 2025

We have recently published the paper Elucidating Contact-Limited Temperature Dependence of Charge Transport in 2D Tin Halide Perovskite Field-Effect Transistors in Journal of Physics: Materials . Two-dimensional tin halide perovskites have recently generated significant interest due to their ease of processing and high...

Sirringhaus Lab Members Attend innoLAE 2025

20 February 2025

Seven members of the Sirringhaus Lab attended the conference innoLAE (Innovations in Large-Area Electronics) over the previous two days. The event, hosted at Magdalene College, Cambridge , included dozens of talks from both academics and industry experts across a wide range of topics, from applications like biosensors and...

Nernst Effect Paper Published in Nature Communications

11 February 2025

Our paper Observation of Anomalously Large Nernst Effects in Conducting Polymers has now been published in Nature Communications ! While the Nernst effect is well-documented in inorganic semiconductors and metals, this phenomenon is typically negligible in polymers with lower structural order and an inherently low mobility...