Career
His research focuses on semiconductor physics, including growth of nanostructures and their optoelectronic applications. Yasuhiko Arakawa received a Bachelor of Surgery degree in 1975 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1980, respectively, from the University of Tokyo, both in Electronics Engineering. In 1981 he became an Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo and in 1993, was promoted Full Professor there.
He is now at the Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo and is also the Director of Institute for Nano Quantum Information Electronics.
He has been a visiting scientist of the California Institute of Technology in the period 1984-1986 and visiting Professor at the Technical University of Munich in the period 2009-2011.