Principle Investigator

Satoshi Aya

South China University of Technology (SCUT)

School of Emergent Soft Matter

Tel: +86-13826107240

Email: liq.cry[at]gmail.com or satoshiaya[at]scut.edu.cn

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Education and employment

He received his Ph.D. degree in materials engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2014 under the supervision of Prof. Hideo Takezoe and Prof. Ken Ishikawa. He has been a professor at South China University of Technology in China since 2019. His principal interests are the physicochemical properties of soft matter, particularly in traditional liquid crystals, polar liquid crystals, liquid crystal elastomers, colloids, and optoelectronic applications of liquid crystals, etc.

He is a member of The International Liquid Crystal Society (ILCS), The International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), The Physical Society of Japan (JPS), The Japanese Liquid Crystal Society (JLCS) and The Chinese Physical Society (CPS).

2025.3-, SCUT, Professor (Tenured)

2019.3-2025.3, SCUT, Professor (Tenure track)

2017.4-2019.3, RIKEN CEMS, RIKEN SPDR researcher

2015.9-2017.3, RIKEN CEMS, Special researcher

2014.4-2015.8, Hitachi High-tech. Corp., R&D researcher

2012.4-2014.3, Tokyo Tech., JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC2)

2011.10–2014.3, Tokyo Tech., PhD candicate in Prof. Hideo Takezoe's lab

2010.4–2011.9, Tokyo Tech., Master in Prof. Hideo Takezoe's lab

2006.4–2010.3, Tokyo Tech., Bachelor in Prof. Hideo Takezoe's lab

Prestigious funding and talent program

2025.1-, TCL Young Talents program

2025.1-, NSFC Excellent Young Scholars of China

2024.1-, NSFC Research Fund for International Excellent Young Scientists (RFIS-II)

2023.1-2024.12, High-End Foreign Expert Recruitment Program

2022.1-, National Key Research and Development Program of China

2019.3-2025.3, Guangdong Pearl River Talent Program: Top Young Talents

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Postdoc

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PhD student

Minghui Deng (邓明慧)

Research: Nonlinear optics of ferroelectric nematc liquid crystals

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Yu Zou (邹宇)

Research: Ferroelectric liquid crystal (LC) topology and free energy theory. Many unusual polar topologies may be produced by ferroelectric LCs in specific spatial confinements. From the perspective of free energy, by revealing the relationship between physical properties and polar topologies in ferroelectric fluids systems, it promotes the understanding of the fundamental physical laws of the polar LC systems and promotes the ferroelectric LC materials toward further development and application.

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Enjun Ling (林恩俊)

Research: Electric polarization structures of ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals

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Jing Li (李靖)

Research: Molecular dynamics of ferroelectric liquid crystal phases and macroscopic dynamical fluctuations from microscopic dipolar molecular systems.

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