SPRUC 2013 Young Scientist Award

Yoshiyuki Amemiya
Chair, SPring-8 Users Community (SPRUC)
Jun'ichiro Mizuki
Chair, SPRUC 2013 Young Scientist Award Review Committee

In this fiscal year 2013, "SPRUC 2013 Young Scientist Award" which was being invited had nine candidates by the closing date.
　SPRUC 2013 Young Scientist Award Review Committee had rigorous process for selecting two winners.

The SPRUC 2013 Young Science Award (YSA) is given to a young scientist who is recognized as having established a notable achievement in the development of a new experimental technique or a new method for data analysis, or having achieved remarkable results in the studied field by making use of the characteristic features of SPring-8.

Award winner	Dr. Alexander Gray / SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation for the award	He has published impressive 11 papers based on the data taken at SPring-8, of which he was the first author on 6 papers and contributed significantly on 5 papers. He experimentally demonstrated hard x-ray ARPES for the first time and applied it to resolve a long-standing controversy concerning the electronic structure of the dilute magnetic structure materials, and also explored various other new directions for hard x-ray photoemission spectroscopy.

Award winner

Dr. Alexander Gray / SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Citation for the award

He has published impressive 11 papers based on the data taken at SPring-8, of which he was the first author on 6 papers and contributed significantly on 5 papers. He experimentally demonstrated hard x-ray ARPES for the first time and applied it to resolve a long-standing controversy concerning the electronic structure of the dilute magnetic structure materials, and also explored various other new directions for hard x-ray photoemission spectroscopy.

Award winner	Dr. Keita Ito / University of Tsukuba
Citation for the award	He has published several remarkable papers as the first author regarding magnetism of thin layers and thin films by employing the XMCD technique at SPring-8 beamlines within a couple of years. These studies have been advanced upon his leadership, and it is recognized without any doubt that his ability as a scientist is excellent.