Japanese
Ueno (Downtown) Tokyo, 1959
1984 BAS. Dept. of Pure & Applied Sciences, University of Tokyo
1989 Ph.D. Dept. of Pure & Applied Sciences, University of Tokyo
1989-1994 Research Associate (Dept. of Pure & Applied Sciences, University of Tokyo)
1990-1992 Post doctor (Dept. of Physics, University of Pennsylvania)
1994- Associate Professor (Saitama Study Center, The Open University of Japan (The University of the Air))
2003- Associate Professor (Dept. of Polymer Chemistry, Kyoto University)
2009- Professor (Dept. of Physics, Kindai University)
Soft and Complex Condensed Matter Physics
Complex Morphology of Multicomponent Block Copolymers
Soft Quasicrystals, Materials Geometry
14 May 2007 Physical Review Focus
21 May 2007 Chemical Engineering News
4 Oct. 2011 Cited in the announcement (No. 38) for the Nobel Prize Chemistry 2011
5 March. 2015 Science News, "Quasicrystals: The third type of solid"
2014 The origin of quasicrystal formation was elucidated in a letter appeared in Nature.
2017 A bronze-mean tiling was discovered in a letter of Nature Materials.
2019 Aperiodic approsimants were proposed in a paper of Nature Communications.
2019 A blog was posted in Nature research "Behind the Paper."
The Physical Society of Japan (JPS) member
American Physical Society (APS) member (+DPOLY, GSOFT)
The Society of Polymer Science Japan (SPSJ) member
American Chemical Society (ACS) member
Materials Research Society (MRS) member
Research Group on Computational Polymer Science (RGCPS) member, Steering committee (-2009)
YITP Workshop "Soft Matter as Structured Materials" 2005 Organizers
Study Group on Labylinth (2009-)
International Advisory Board, AIWQ5 (2009), AIWQ6 (2011)
Program Committee, ICQ11 (2010), ICQ12 (2013)
Chair, International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) MS-57 (2014)
Advisor, JST, PRESTO "Hyper-nano-space design toward innovative functionality" (2013-2018)
Vice Chair, Division 6, The Physical Society of Japan (2018)
Chair, Division 6, The Physical Society of Japan (2019)
Working Group Member, World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI) (2023-)
Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics Prize for 2007
Courses (2004): Thermal Statistical Physics (senior), Fourier Analysis (sophomor)
Courses (2005): Chemical Mathematics (junior), Physics of complex liquids (graduate)
Courses (2006-2008): Differential and Integral calculaus in Natural Phenomena (freshman)
University of the Air (Japanese Open University) courses on Sky PerfecTV : Heat & Temperature, Motion & Force, Energy & Heat, and Computational Science
(2004) Nagoya University,
(2008) Tokyo Institute of Technology,
(2011) Chuo University
[3] T. Dotera, "Tricontinuous Cubic Structures in ABC/A/C Copolymer and Homopolymer Blends," Physical Review Letters, 89 (2002) 205502
Fig. 1 was chosen for Nov. 11 (2002) cover illustration.
Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics Prize for 2007
[6] K. Hayashida, T. Dotera, A. Takano, and Y. Matsushita, "Polymeric quasicrystal: Mesoscopic quasicrystalline tiling in ABC star polymers" Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, (2007) 19550214 May 2007 Physical Review Focus
[7] T.Dotera, "Quasicrystals in Soft Matter" Israel Journal of Chemistry, 51, (2011) 1197-1205
