UT-ORNL Distinguished Scientist/Professor Director, Joint-Institute for Neutron Sciences
Biography
Dr. Egami received his Bachelor’s degree in Applied Physics from the University of Tokyo in 1968, and his Ph.D. 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 had guest appointments at Los Alamos National Laboratory (2002), KEK (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization), Tsukuba, Japan (1998), Inst. for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan (1993), IBM Almaden Research Lab, San Jose (1988), Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (1987), and Max-Planck-Institut fur Metallforschung, Institut fur Physik, Stuttgart, Germany (1979-80). Dr. Egami has authored or co-authored 1 book, about 20 full reviews and over 360 technical papers. He gave over 200 invited technical presentations at national and international conferences.
Research
- Neutron scattering research
- X-ray scattering research
- High-temperature superconductivity
- Electronic oxides
- Structure and dynamics of liquids and glasses
- Superconducting oxides and chalcogenides
Education
Ph.D., Univ. of Pennsylvania: Neutron and X-ray scattering, electronic oxides including superconducting cuprates, metallic glasses, theory of liquids and glasses
Professional Service
- Director Emeritus, Shull Wollan Center—Joint Institute for Neutron Sciences
- Fellow, American Physical Society, Neutron Scattering Society of America
Awards and Recognitions
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
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).
Recent Publications
- “Seeing Real-Space Dynamics of Liquid Water through Inelastic X-Ray Scattering”, Iwashita, B. Wu, W.-R. Chen, S. Tsutsui, A.Q. R. Baron and T. Egami, Science Advances, 3, e1603079 (2017).
- “Observation of Dynamic Atom-Atom Correlation in Liquid Helium in Real Space”, W. Dmowski, S. O. Diallo, K. Lokshin, G. Ehlers, Ferré, J. Boronat and T. Egami, Nature Communications, 8, 15294 (2017).
- “Mechanical Deformation in Metallic Liquids and Glasses: From Atomic Bond Breaking to Avalanches”, T. Egami, Y. Fan and T. Iwashita, in Avalanches in Functional Materials and Geophysics, ed. E. Salje, A. Saxena and A. Planes (Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2016) Chapt. 10, pp. 199-225.
- “Energy Landscape-Driven Nonequilibrium Evolution of Inherent Structure in Disordered Material”, Yue Fan, T. Iwashita, and T. Egami, Nature Communications, 8, 15417 (2017).
- “Crossover from Localized to Cascade Relaxations in Metallic Glasses”, Y. Fan, T. Iwashita and T. Egami, Rev. Lett., 115, 045501 (2015).
- “How Thermally Activated Deformation Starts in Metallic Glass”, Y. Fan, T. Iwashita and T. Egami, Nature Communications, 5, 5083 (2014).
- “Irradiation Resistance of High-Entropy Alloys”, T. Egami, W. Guo, P. D. Rack and T. Nagase, Mat. Trans. A, 45, 180 (2014).
- “Elementary Excitations and Crossover Phenomenon in Liquids”, T. Iwashita, D. M. Nicholson and T. Egami, Rev. Lett., 110, 205504 (2013).