Author: Hiroshi Nakanishi

Hideaki Kasai is a renowned researcher in the field of condensed matter physics, as exemplified by his excellent publications and years of international experience. His research studies in this field centre on low-temperature physics with several pioneering works in strongly correlated systems, elementary excitations, reactions on surfaces and interfaces and nanomaterials.Mary Clare Sison Escaño is an awarded early career researcher. She pioneered research on magnetism in chemical reactions and biological systems at atomic level. Dr Escaño is currently a tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Fukui, Japan. Prior to this, she received her Ph D in 2012 from the Department of Applied Physics, Osaka University, Japan, where she investigated spin effects in surface reactions using first-principles methods.