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Jaw-Shen Tsai ( Tsai Jaw-Shen, born February 8, 1952, in

Taipei, Taiwan Taipei (), officially Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Located in Northern Taiwan, Taipei City is an enclave of the municipality of New Taipei City that sits about southwest of the ...

) is a Taiwanese

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate caus ...

. He is a professor at the

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and a team leader of the Superconducting Quantum Simulation Research Team at the Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) within RIKEN. He has contributed to the area of

condensed matter physics Condensed matter physics is the field of physics that deals with the macroscopic and microscopic physical properties of matter, especially the solid and liquid phases which arise from electromagnetic forces between atoms. More generally, the sub ...

in both its fundamental physical aspects and its technological applications. He has recently been working on experiments connected to

quantum coherence In physics, two wave sources are coherent if their frequency and waveform are identical. Coherence is an ideal property of waves that enables stationary (i.e., temporally or spatially constant) interference. It contains several distinct concepts, ...

in Josephson systems. In February 2014, he retired from

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, after 31 years of employment. He is a fellow of the

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as well as the

Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP) is a Japanese group of researchers in the field of applied physics. JSAP originated in 1932 from a voluntary forum of researchers belonging to the University of Tokyo and the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research. During World War ...

Education and Work

Jaw-Shen Tsai obtained a

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degree in

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(1975) at

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and a

Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is a ...

(1983) at the

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. He has held the following positions: * 1983 Research Scientist, Microelectronics Research Laboratories,

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* 2001 Fellow, Nano Electronics Research Laboratories, NEC * 2001 Team Leader, Macroscopic Quantum Coherence Team, RIKEN * 2012 Group Director, Single Quantum Dynamics Research Group, RIKEN * 2013 Team Leader, Macroscopic Quantum Coherence Research Team, Quantum Information Electronics Division, RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science * 2014 Team Leader, Superconducting Quantum Simulation Research Team, Quantum Information Electronics Division, RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (-present) * 2015 Professor,

(-present)

Honors and awards

* 2000 Fellow,

* 2004

Nishina Memorial Prize The is the oldest and most prestigious physics award in Japan. Information Since 1955, the Nishina Memorial Prize has been awarded annually by the Nishina Memorial Foundation. The Foundation was established to commemorate Yoshio Nishina, who w ...

* 2007 Honorary Professor,

National Chiao Tung University National Chiao Tung University (NCTU; ) was a public research university located in Hsinchu, Taiwan. Established in 1896 as Nanyang Public School by an imperial edict of the Guangxu Emperor, it was one of China's leading universities. After th ...

* 2008

Simon Memorial Prize The Simon Memorial Prize is an award that honors 'distinguished work in experimental or theoretical low temperature physics'. The prize is awarded by the Institute of Physics and is presented at the International Conference on Low Temperature ...

(with Yasunobu Nakamura) * 2010 Fellow,

* 2013 Quantum Innovator Award * 2014 The 11th (with Yasunobu Nakamura) * 2018

Medal with Purple Ribbon are medals awarded by the Government of Japan. They are awarded to individuals who have done meritorious deeds and also to those who have achieved excellence in their field of work. The Medals of Honor were established on December 7, 1881, and we ...

* 2021

Asahi Prize The , established in 1929, is an award presented by the Japanese newspaper ''Asahi Shimbun'' and Asahi Shimbun Foundation to honor individuals and groups that have made outstanding accomplishments in the fields of arts and academics and have greatl ...

(with Yasunobu Nakamura)

References

External links

* Center for Emergent Matter Science at RIKEN http://www.riken.jp/en/research/labs/cems/ * Quantum Cybernetics at RIKEN http://www.riken.jp/Qcybernetics/en/1_overview/index.html * Supeconducting Quantum Computing at FIRST,

National Institute of Informatics The is a Japanese research institute located in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. NII was established in April 2000 for the purpose of advancing the study of informatics. This institute also works on creating systems to facilitate the spread of scienti ...

http://www.nii.ac.jp/qis/first-quantum/e/subgroups/superconductingQcom/researcher.html * Department of Physics at Tokyo University of Science http://www.rs.tus.ac.jp/tsai/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Tsai, Jaw-Shen 1952 births 20th-century Taiwanese physicists Quantum physicists Living people NEC people Riken personnel Stony Brook University alumni Academic staff of Tokyo University of Science UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni Taiwanese expatriates in Japan Scientists from Taipei Fellows of the American Physical Society 21st-century Taiwanese physicists Taiwanese expatriates in the United States Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon Foreign educators in Japan