The winner of the 2007 “Sir Martin Wood Prize” is Dr Akira Ohtomo from the Institute of Materials Research at Tohoku University in recognition of study of quantitized magnetotransport in oxide heterointerfaces.
Dr Ohtomo received his Ph.D in Materials Science and Engineering in March 2000 at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He was a Postdoctoral member of Technical stuff at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies (2000 – 2002) and is now a visiting researcher at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Researcher at the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and a research Associate at the Institute for Materials Research (IMR).
Dr Ohtomo has been recognized through multiple awards from Young Scientist in 1994 through to this year’s achievement.
Dr Ohtomo was awarded the prize on 14th November 2007 and presented his lecture at the Millennium Science Forum organized by Oxford Instruments held at International House in Tokyo.
Keynote speakers at the event included Professor Kiyoshi Kurokawa and Professor Maurice Skolnick from Sheffield University in the UK.
Dr Ohtomo also presented his work in the following universities, from the 17th of June to the Friday 20th of June 2007: UCL, Sheffiled, Oxford and Cambridge Univerisities.