I am an instructor in the Natural Science Department at SPC and have been teaching physics and physical science courses at Seminole Campus and Tarpon Springs Campus since 2011. 

I originally come from Japan. I grew up in Fukuoka on the island of Kyushu, the westernmost island of the Japanese four main islands. After obtaining a bachelor's degree in physics at Kobe University, I decided to move to the United States in order to seek better research opportunities in theoretical physics. I joined the University of Florida in 2005 and started research on condensed matter theory with Prof. K. A. Muttalib. During the course toward my Ph.D degree, I worked as a visiting researcher at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany in 2009. I completed my dissertation on the Anderson transition and earned a doctorate degree in physics in 2011.  

My research interest is centered on electron transport. If you are interested in physics, probably you have heard of Ohm's law, which describes the proportionality between the current in a conductor and the voltage applied to it. Simply put, I have been studying how electrons travel through a conductor and how their transport properties change when impurities are added to it. You might think it is easy, but it is not. Even the Ohm's law requires a good understanding of quantum mechanics if you want to explain it from a microscopic viewpoint. I tackle the problem with theoretical tools such as Feynman diagrams, scaling, and renormalization groups. 

Throughout almost entire course toward my Ph.D degree, I worked as a teaching assistant. Mostly I instructed physics labs and recitation sections in small classrooms, but during my senior years I was also appointed as a lecturer for a basic physics course in a larger hall several times. I was proud of the appointments because the course is normally taught by faculty members, not by graduate students. These teaching opportunities in the graduate school convinced me to pursue teaching as my career, and now I am enjoying teaching at SPC. I have realized SPC students have more diverse backgrounds than UF students, and I am really having fun coming up with the ideas that make my class more fun, exciting and understandable to students with different interests.