Yayoi Takamura
University of California, Davis
Yayoi Takamura received her B.S. from Cornell University in 1998 and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University in 2000 and 2004, respectively, all in the field of Materials Science and Engineering. She was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley with Prof. Yuri Suzuki in the Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering before joining the Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering at UC Davis in July 2006. Since July 2020, she has been serving as Department Chair. Her research focuses on the growth of complex oxide thin films, heterostructures, and nanostructures and the characterization of the novel functional properties associated with their interfaces. Prof. Takamura is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the DARPA Young Faculty Award, and the 2020 College of Engineering Mid-Career Research Award.