03/04-'07/03 Graduate school of science, Kyoto university (B4: Prof. Koichiro Tanaka's group). '07/04-'09/03 Master's course, Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering/Faculty of Engineering, The Univ. of Tokyo (Prof. Katsuyuki Fukutani's group). '09/04-'11/09 Doctoral course, Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering/Faculty of Engineering, The Univ. of Tokyo (Prof. Katsuyuki Fukutani's group). Academic carriers '11/04-'11/09 Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC2), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science '11/04-'12/02 Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (PD), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science '12/03-Present Assistant Professor at Kyoto University, Japan Awards '08/10 Best Poster Presentation Award, 49th Annual Symposium of the Vacuum Society of Japan. '10/07 Best Presentation Award, IIS PhD Student Live 2010. '10/12 Student awards, Surface/interface spectroscopy 2010. '12/02 Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education [Qingyang Wang], 1st science intercollegiate. '14/02 Young Scientist Award, 33rd Annual Meeting of the Surface Science Society of Japan. '14/08 39th Vacuum Science Paper Award of the Kumatani Memorial Foundation. '14/08 23th Vacuum Society of Japan Award for Innovative Work.

Physical chemistry of surface and interface Condensed matter spectroscopy Atomic and Molecular Physics Vacuum science

Photocatalytic water splitting Adsorption and condensation of water (liquid/ice) on solid surfaces Order-disorder transition of hydrogen-bonded ferroelectrics Nuclear/electron Spin conversion in molecules Flow dynamics of adsorptive gases

*T. Sugimoto, N. Aiga, Y. Otsuki, K. Watanabe & M. Matsumoto, Reversible ferroelectric-paraelectric transision of crystalline ice film deposited on Pt(111). in preparation. *T. Sugimoto & K. Fukutani, Enhanced ortho-para state mixing in molecular hydrogen mediated by intramolecular Fermi-contact coupling between vibronic states. in preparation. *T. Sugimoto & K. Fukutani, Comment on 'Rotational and Vibrational Excitations of a Hydrogen Molecule Trapped within a Nanocavity of Tunable Dimension' Phys. Rev. Lett. submitted. M. Yabuta, T. Takayama, K. Shirai, K. Watanabe, A. Kudo, *T. Sugimoto & Y. Matsumoto, Effects of cocatalyst on carrier dynamics of a titanate photocatalyst with layered perovskite structure. J.Phys.Chem.C. 118, 10972 (2014). Y. Ishino, K. Miyata, *T. Sugimoto, K. Watanabe, Y. Matsumoto, T. Uemura & J. Takeya, Ultrafast Exciton Dynamics in Dinaphtho[2,3-b:2’3’-f]thieno[3,2-b]-thiophene Thin Films. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 16, 7501-7512 (2014). *T. Sugimoto & K. Fukutani, Effects of Rotational-Symmetry Breaking on Physisorption of Ortho- and Para-H2 on Noble Metal Surface. Phys. Rev. Lett. 112,146101(2014). K. Fukutani & *T. Sugimoto, Physisorption and ortho–para conversion of molecular hydrogen on solid surfaces. Prog. Surf. Sci. 88, 279-348 (2013). N. Aiga, Q. Jia, K. Watanabe, A. Kudo, *T. Sugimoto & Y. Matsumoto, Electron–phonon coupling dynamics at oxygen evolution sites of visible-light-driven photocatalyst: Bismuth vanadate. J. Phys. Chem. C 117, 9881-9886 (2013). *T. Sugimoto, K. Takeyasu & K. Fukutani, Gas dynamics in the vacuum chamber with a single adsorption site on the Wall Surface: Origin of the exponential pressure decay with the time constant of sub-kilo seconds. J. Vac. Soc. Jpn. 56, 322-329 (2013). K. Takeyasu, *T. Sugimoto & K. Fukutani, Analysis of a pumping curve of water with the conversion equation from pressure to adsorption density of states. J. Vac. Soc. Jpn. 56, 457-459 (2013). K. Takeyasu, *T. Sugimoto & K. Fukutani, Analytical Formula for Calculating Adsorption Density of States on Chamber Surfaces from Measured Pressure Change. J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 82, 114602 (2013). Q. Wang, *T. Sugimoto & K. Fukutani, Rotational spectroscopy of HD by laser-induced fluorescence. Seisankenkyu 94, 911-914 (2012). *T. Sugimoto & K. Fukutani, Electric-Field induced nuclear-spin flips mediated by enhanced spin orbit coupling. Nature Physics 7, 307-310 (2011). Y. Kazama, M. Matsumoto, *T. Sugimoto, T. Okano & K. Fukutani, Low-temperature surface phase and phase transition of physisorbed oxygen on the Ag(111) surface. Phys. Rev. B 84, 064128 (2011). K. Yamakawa, *T. Sugimoto & K. Fukutani, The reflection operation and the Σ− term of linear molecules, Mol. Sci. 5, AC0014 (2010).

*T. Sugimoto, T. Okano & K. Fukutani, Problem of gas dose with micro-capillary array. J. Vac. Soc. Jpn. 52, 141-144 (2009).