What's ＱＫＰ?
In this project, our aim is to develop an affordable electron microscope capable of displaying the fascinating quantum world. Our goal is to make this technology accessible even to elementary and junior high schools, enabling children to witness the wonders of the quantum realm in their daily lives. With this objective in mind, we aspire to pioneer the world's first quantum education program for kids. We envision that our microscope will not only inspire brilliant young minds worldwide but also encourage them to conceive groundbreaking ideas and bring them to fruition in the future.
About the leader of QKP
Hirofumi Yanagisawa
Physicist
Bio
Hirofumi Yanagisawa got Ph.D. in 2006 at Waseda University in Japan. From 2007 to 2010, he had been working at the University of Zurich with fellowships from Japanese foundations (JSPS and Nishina memorial foundation). From 2010 to 2014, he became an independent researcher through the Ambizione project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. In 2015, he got a position as a research professor in Max-Plank Postech/Korea and has been working as a guest researcher at Max-Plank Institute of Quantum Optics in Munich. In 2018, he became a project leader funded by a DFG project funding and had worked at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich till 2020. From 2020 to 2023, He worked at the University of Tokyo as a project leader through a JST PRESTO project.