Takashi Kurumaji is a Research Professor of Physics at Caltech. His laboratory will conduct condensed matter research, beginning with materials design for unconventional electronic and magnetic states, as well as the development of new methods for growing high-purity single crystals of target compounds. This will be followed by high-precision measurements of physical properties and the elucidation of crystal and magnetic structures using various diffraction techniques with quantum beams, such as neutrons and synchrotron X-rays.

Research targets include multiferroic materials, magnetic skyrmions, and rare-earth-based topological magnets. The development of new materials will open up unique opportunities for nontrivial transport responses, such as the anomalous Hall effect and thermal conduction enriched by magnetic frustration and quantum effects among magnetic multipoles.