Hidekazu Kurebayashi
University College London
Hide Kurebayashi is Professor of Condensed Mater Physics and Nanoelectronics at two institutes, UCL and Tohoku University. Before joining UCL, he worked at University of Cambridge as a JST-PRESTO research fellow in the Cavendish laboratory, where he also completed his PhD in 2010.
He leads two experimental research groups in UK and Japan, working on spintronics and spin dynamics. His recent research interest includes spin-orbit transport in inversion-broken and/or low-dimensional crystals such as van der Waals materials, neuromorphic computing and coherent photon-magnon coupling in nano-systems.
For his research, he received the JSPS Prize, Leverhulme Research Fellowship, The Young Scientists’ Award within The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology by Japanese government, UCL Future Leader Award, JST-PRESTO Research Fellowship, Darwin College Research Fellowship, Runner-up of the Abdus Salam Prize, ORS and the Nakajima Foundation scholarship. He will also deliver the Wohlfarth Lecture in 2026.