Basic Information

Professional Memberships

• レーザー学会
• 応用物理学会
• 原子衝突学会
• 日本顕微鏡学会
• 分子科学会

Academic Degree

• 22 Mar. 2012

  Master degree, Department of Chemistry, School of Science, the University of Tokyo
• 24 Mar. 2015

  Ph.D. Department of Chemistry, School of Science, the University of Tokyo

Academic Resume (Undergraduate School/Majors)

• University of Tokyo, School of Science, Department of Chemistry, Graduated

Research History

• From Oct. 2026, To Present

  Kyoto University, Institute for Chemical Research, Professor
• From Oct. 2021, To Present

  RIKEN, RIKEN Pioneering Research Institute and RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics, RIKEN Hakubi team leader
• From Apr. 2022, To Mar. 2026

  The University of Tokyo, The Graduate School of Engineering Department of Nuclear Engineering and Management, Visiting associate professor
• From Mar. 2019, To Sep. 2021

  Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Faculty of Physics, Postdoctoral Researcher
• From Apr. 2017, To Mar. 2019

  Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Fakultät für Physik, Postdoctoral Researcher
• From Apr. 2015, To Mar. 2017

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Overseas Research Fellowship (at Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics)
• From Apr. 2012, To Mar. 2015

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Research Fellowship for Young Researchers

ID,URL

• ORCID ID

  0000-0003-4918-2709

• J-Global ID

  202101018090315218

researchmap URL

• https://researchmap.jp/yuyamorimoto

Research

Research Areas

• Nanotechnology/Materials, Applied physics - general
• Natural sciences, Semiconductors, optical and atomic physics
• Nanotechnology/Materials, Optical engineering and photonics
• Nanotechnology/Materials, Basic physical chemistry

Papers

• Attosecond leap in scanning tunnelling microscopy

  Yuya Morimoto; Kensuke Kimura

  Nature Photonics, Aug. 2026

  
• Attosecond shaping of multi-electron pulses in a home-built 37-keV beamline

  Yuichi Tachibana; Marie Ouillé; Takuya Hosobata; Takashi Isoshima; Yoshiyuki Takizawa; Yutaka Yamagata; Yuya Morimoto

  Scientific Reports, 29 Jul. 2026

  
• Scattering-asymmetry control with ultrafast electron wave packet shaping

  Yuya Morimoto; Peter Hommelhoff; Lars Bojer Madsen

  New Journal of Physics, 01 Oct. 2025

  
• Roadmap for Quantum Nanophotonics with Free Electrons

  F. Javier García de Abajo; Albert Polman; Cruz I. Velasco; Mathieu Kociak; Luiz H. G. Tizei; Odile Stéphan; Sophie Meuret; Takumi Sannomiya; Keiichirou Akiba; Yves Auad; Armin Feist; Claus Ropers; Peter Baum; John H. Gaida; Murat Sivis; Hugo Lourenço-Martins; Luca Serafini; Johan Verbeeck; Andrea Konečná; Nahid Talebi; Beatrice Matilde Ferrari; Cameron J. R. Duncan; Maria Giulia Bravi; Irene Ostroman; Giovanni Maria Vanacore; Ethan Nussinson; Ron Ruimy; Yuval Adiv; Arthur Niedermayr; Ido Kaminer; Valerio Di Giulio; Ofer Kfir; Zhexin Zhao; Roy Shiloh; Yuya Morimoto; Martin Kozák; Peter Hommelhoff; Francesco Barantani; Fabrizio Carbone; Fatemeh Chahshouri; Wiebke Albrecht; Sergio Rey; Toon Coenen; Erik Kieft; Hoelen L. Lalandec Robert; Frank de Jong; Magdalena Solà-Garcia

  ACS Photonics, 15 Jul. 2025

  
• Ultrafast Transmission Electron Microscopy with an Optically Modulated Beam

  Yuya Morimoto

  Kenbikyo, Sep. 2024, Peer-reviewed, Invited, Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author

  
• Mid-infrared dielectric laser acceleration in a silicon dual pillar structure

  Leon Brückner; Tomáš Chlouba; Yuya Morimoto; Norbert Schönenberger; Tatsunori Shibuya; Thomas Siefke; Uwe D. Zeitner; Peter Hommelhoff

  Optics Express, 29 Jul. 2024

  
• Field-Induced Rocking-Curve Effects in Attosecond Electron Diffraction

  Y. Morimoto; P. Baum

  Physical Review Letters, 22 May 2024, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

  
• Scattering of ultrashort electron wave packets: optical theorem, differential phase contrast and angular asymmetries

  Yuya Morimoto; Lars Bojer Madsen

  New Journal of Physics, 01 May 2024, Lead author, Corresponding author

  
• 静磁場型電子エネルギー分析器の設計指針

  立花 佑一; 森本 裕也

  しょうとつ, May 2024, Peer-reviewed, Last author, Corresponding author

  
• アト秒物理学とナノサイエンス： 2023 年ノーベル物理学賞とその先

  森本裕也

  The Bulletin of the Society of Nano Science and Technology, Mar. 2024, Peer-reviewed, Invited, Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author

  
• Attosecond Space–Time Imaging with Electron Microscopy and Diffraction

  Peter Baum; Yuya Morimoto

  Ultrafast Electronic and Structural Dynamics, 2024

  
• Attosecond movies of nano-optical fields

  Yuya Morimoto

  Nature Photonics, 09 Aug. 2023, Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author

  
• Attosecond electron-beam technology: a review of recent progress

  Yuya Morimoto

  Microscopy, 08 Feb. 2023, Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author

  
• アト秒電子パルスの発生と電子回折への応用

  Yuya Morimoto

  Molecular Science, 2023, Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author

  
• Free‐Electron Tomography of Few‐Cycle Optical Waveforms

  Yuya Morimoto; Bo‐Han Chen; Peter Baum

  Annalen der Physik, Nov. 2022

  
• 中赤外パルスを用いたアト秒電子ビーム制御

  森本裕也

  レーザー研究, Jun. 2022, Peer-reviewed, Invited, Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author

  
• Atomic real-space perspective of light-field-driven currents in graphene

  Yuya Morimoto; Yasushi Shinohara; Kenichi L Ishikawa; Peter Hommelhoff

  New Journal of Physics, 01 Mar. 2022

  
• Observation of laser-assisted electron-impact ionization in ultrashort intense laser fields

  Takashi Hiroi; Yuya Morimoto; Reika Kanya; Kaoru Yamanouchi

  Physical Review A, 21 Dec. 2021

  
• Coherent scattering of an optically modulated electron beam by atoms

  Yuya Morimoto; Peter Hommelhoff; Lars Bojer Madsen

  Physical Review A, 14 Apr. 2021

  
• Asymmetric single-cycle control of valence electron motion in polar chemical bonds

  Yuya Morimoto; Yasushi Shinohara; Mizuki Tani; Bo-Han Chen; Kenichi L. Ishikawa; Peter Baum

  Optica, 20 Mar. 2021

  
• Single-Cycle Optical Control of Beam Electrons

  Yuya Morimoto; Peter Baum

  Physical Review Letters, 03 Nov. 2020

  
• Intracycle interference in the interaction of laser and electron beams

  Yuya Morimoto; Peter Hommelhoff

  Physical Review Research, 16 Oct. 2020

  
• Octave-spanning single-cycle middle-infrared generation through optical parametric amplification in LiGaS2

  Bo-Han Chen; Emanuel Wittmann; Yuya Morimoto; Peter Baum; Eberhard Riedle

  Optics Express, 22 Jul. 2019

  
• アト秒電子パルス

  アト秒電子パルス

  化学と工業, 2019, Peer-reviewed, Invited, Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author

  
• Attosecond electron pulse trains and applications to time-resolved diffraction and microscopy

  Yuya Morimoto; Peter Baum

  Advances in Ultrafast Condensed Phase Physics, 21 May 2018, Lead author, Corresponding author

  
• Attosecond control of electron beams at dielectric and absorbing membranes

  Morimoto, Yuya; Baum, Peter

  Physical Review a, 2018

  
• Laser damage of free-standing nanometer membranes

  Morimoto, Yuya; Roland, Iannis; Rennesson; Stephanie; Semond, Fabrice; Boucaud, Philippe; Baum, Peter

  Journal of Applied Physics, 07 Dec. 2017

  
• Diffraction and microscopy with attosecond electron pulse trains

  Yuya Morimoto

  Nature Physics, 27 Nov. 2017

  
• High-order multiphoton laser-assisted elastic electron scattering by Xe in a femtosecond near-infrared intense laser field: Plateau in energy spectra of scattered electrons

  Ishida, Kakuta; Morimoto, Yuya; Kanya, Reika; Yamanouchi, Kaoru

  Physical Review a, 2017

  
• Observation of Light-Dressed Atoms by Laser-Assisted Electron Scattering

  Kanya Reika; Morimoto Yuya; Yamanouchi Kaoru

  Butsuri, 2016

  
• Light-Dressing Effect in Laser-Assisted Elastic Electron Scattering by Xe

  Morimoto, Yuya; Kanya, Reika; Yamanouchi, Kaoru

  Physical Review Letters, 2015

  
• Laser-Assisted Electron Diffraction for Probing Femtosecond Nuclear Dynamics of Gas-Phase Molecules

  Morimoto, Yuya; Kanya, Reika; Yamanouchi, Kaoru

  Ultrafast Phenomena Xix, 2015

  
• Observation of mutiphoton absorptions in laser-assisted electron scattering in a femtosecond intense laser field

  Kakuta Ishida; Yuya Morimoto; Reika Kanya; Kaoru Yamanouchi

  Optics InfoBase Conference Papers, 2014

  
• Laser-Assisted electron scattering and diffraction in ultrashort intense laser fields

  Reika Kanya; Yuya Morimoto; Kaoru Yamanouchi

  Springer Series in Chemical Physics, 2014, Peer-reviewed

  
• Laser-assisted electron diffraction for femtosecond molecular imaging

  Morimoto, Yuya; Kanya, Reika; Yamanouchi, Kaoru

  Journal of Chemical Physics, 2014

  
• Apparatus for laser-assisted electron scattering in femtosecond intense laser fields

  Kanya, Reika; Morimoto, Yuya; Yamanouchi, Kaoru

  Review of Scientific Instruments, 2011

  
• Observation of Laser-Assisted Electron-Atom Scattering in Femtosecond Intense Laser Fields

  Kanya, Reika; Morimoto, Yuya; Yamanouchi, Kaoru

  Physical Review Letters, 2010

  

Misc.

• Laser-assisted electron scattering and diffraction for ultrafast imaging of atoms and molecules

  Yuya Morimoto; Reika Kanya; Kaoru Yamanouchi

  Springer Series in Chemical Physics, 2017

  
• Laser-assisted electron scattering and its application to laser-assisted electron diffraction of molecules in femtosecond intense laser fields

  Reika Kanya; Yuya Morimoto; Kaoru Yamanouchi

  Springer Proceedings in Physics, 2012

  

Books and Other Publications

• 中赤外パルスを用いたアト秒電子ビーム制御

  森本裕也, Single work

  レーザー研究 第 50 巻第 6 号、308-312、一般社団法人 レーザー学会, Jun. 2022

  

Awards

• 22 Mar. 2012

  研究奨励賞（東京大学大学院理学系研究科）
• 05 Mar. 2022

  第15回風戸研究奨励賞（風戸研究奨励会）
• 03 Oct. 2016

  The 7th ISUILS Award for Young Researchers（ISUILS）
• 15 Apr. 2026

  令和8年度文部科学大臣表彰若手科学者賞
• 31 May 2024

  奨励賞（レーザー学会）
• 05 Nov. 2022

  研究開発奨励賞・優秀賞（エヌエフ基金）
• 19 Sep. 2022

  奨励賞（分子科学会）
• 25 Mar. 2010

  学修奨励賞（東京大学理学部）
• 09 Dec. 2020

  若手奨励賞（原子衝突学会）
• 05 Sep. 2017

  講演奨励賞（応用物理学会）