Biography

Takeshi Egami received his Bachelor’s degree in Applied Physics from the University of Tokyo in 1968, and his PhD in Materials Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971. After the postdoctoral research at the University of Sussex, U.K. and Max-Planck-Institute in Stuttgart, Germany, he returned to the University of Pennsylvania in 1973 as Assistant Professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1976, to Professor in 1980, and was the Chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering from 1997 to 2002. He moved to the current position in 2003. He was Founding Director of UT-ORNL Joint-Institute for Neutron Sciences, currently Shull-Wollan Center (2008 – 2015). Egami has authored or co-authored 1 book, over 30 full reviews and over 550 technical papers. He gave over 370 invited technical presentations at national and international conferences.

Education

• PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania
• BE, Univ. of Tokyo

Professional Service

• Director Emeritus, Shull Wollan Center—Joint Institute for Neutron Sciences
• Editor, Advances in Physics, Associate Editor, Frontier in Physics, Physical Review Letters (2013-2018)

Awards & Recognitions

• Clifford G. Shull Prize, Neuron Scattering Society of America, 2026
• 2010 J. D. Hanawalt Award, International Union of Crystallography, 2010, with S. J. L. Billinge (Special session at 2010 Denver X-Ray Conference, Denver, CO)
• 2006 Senior Researcher Prize, International Symposium on Metastable and Nano Materials (ISMANAM)
• 2003 Bertram Eugene Warren Diffraction Physics Award, Amer. Crystallographic Assoc (Festschrift in Z. Krstallogr. No. 3, 117-185 (2004)).
• 2002 John Wheatley Scholar, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Fellow, American Physical Society, Neutron Scattering Society of America, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Publications

Book

“Underneath the Bragg Peaks: Structural Analysis of Complex Materials”, T. Egami and S. J. L. Billinge, Pergamon Materials Series Vol. 7, ed. Robert W. Cahn (Pergamon Press, Elsevier Ltd., Oxford, 2003); 2nd edition, Pergamon Materials Series Vol. 16, ed. A. L. Greer (Pergamon Press, Elsevier Ltd., Oxford, 2012).

Research Publications

Select research publications are found below. A full list of publications is available on Google Scholar.

1. “Real Space Dynamic Electron Correlation in Beryllium”, Rudra B. Bista, Yuya Shinohara, Wojciech Dmowski, Chae Woo Ryu, Jung Ho Kim, Mary Upton, Hlynur Gretarsson, Martin Sundermann and Takeshi Egami, Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 256402 (2026); DOI: 10.1103/vzrc-5m39; Editors’ suggestion.
2. “Violation of Detailed Balance in Non-equilibrium Spin Excitations Observed by Inelastic Neutron Scattering”, C. Hua, B. Winn, C. Sarkis, T. Egami and D. A. Tennant, Nature Commun., 17, 3535 (2026); DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-71068-w.
3. “Electron correlation and high-temperature superconductivity”, Takeshi Egami, Cond. Mat., 11, 4 (2026) (2026); DOI: 10.3390/condmat11010004.
4. “Relaxor Ferroelectric-like Spatiotemporal Memory in Field-Driven Lipid Bilayers”, Dima Bolmatov, Dmitry Zav’yalov and Takeshi Egami, Langmuire, 42, 2542 (2026); DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5c05017.
5. “Ripples in the Bottom of the Potential Energy Landscape of Metallic Glass”, Leo Zella, Jaeyun Moon and Takeshi Egami, Nature Commun., 15, 1358 (2024); DOI:1038/s41467-024-45640-1.
6. “Nonaffine Atomic Rearrangement of Glasses through Stress-induced Structural Anisotropy”, Jie Dong, Hailong Peng, Hui Wang, Yang Tong, Yutian Wang, Wojciech Dmowski, Takeshi Egami, Baoan Sun, Weihua Wang and Haiyang Bai, Nature Phys. 19, 1896 (2023). DOI:1038/s41567-023-02243-9.
7. “World Beyond the Nearest Neighbors”, T. Egami and C. W. Ryu, Phys: Condens. Matter, 35, 174002 (2023); DOI: 10.1088/1361-648X/acbe24.
8. “Medium-Range Order Resists Deformation in Metallic Liquids and Glasses”, Takeshi Egami, Wojciech Dmowski and Chae Woo Ryu, Metals, 13, 442 (2023); DOI: 10.3390/met13030442.
9. “Real-space Local Dynamics of Molten Inorganic Salts Using Van Hove Correlation Function”, Yuya Shinohara, Alexander S. Ivanov, Dmitry Maltsev, Garrett E. Granroth, Douglas L. Abernathy, Sheng Dai and Takeshi Egami, Phys. Chem. Lett., 13, 5956–5962 (2022). DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c01230 (Journal cover page).
10. “Structural Principles in Metallic Liquids and Glasses: Bottom-up or Top-down”, Takeshi Egami and Chae Woo Ryu, Frontiers in Materials, 9, 874191 (2022); DOI:3389/fmats.2022.874191.