Ken-ichi Uchida received his doctoral degree from Tohoku University, Japan, in 2012. After working as an Assistant/Associate Professor (2012-2016) at Tohoku University and as a Group Leader at National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) (2016-2023), he has been a Distinguished Group Leader of Research Center for Magnetic and Spintronic Materials, NIMS, since 2023 and Professor of Graduate School of Frontier Science, The University of Tokyo, since 2024. He has been leading JST ERATO project and working mainly on spintronics and thermoelectrics.

Plenary talk: Advancements in Spincaloritronic materials and devices: State of the art and perspectives