Dr. Yoshinori Tokura has been selected to receive a new honorary doctorate at the Uppsala University Faculty of Science and Technology.

On October 16, Dr. Yoshinori Tokura, Center Director of RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) has been selected to receive a new honorary doctorate at the Uppsala University Faculty of Science and Technology. The awarding ceremony will be held on January 24.

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Yoshinori Tokura, Center Director at RIKEN and a professor at University of Tokyo, is one of the world’s ten most-cited physicists over the last 30 years. His research targets a broad field in physics, chemistry, and materials research, including high-temperature superconducting materials and strongly correlated electron systems with spintronic and multiferroic properties.

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