Satoshi Aya

Biography:
Satoshi Aya obtained his PhD from the Tokyo Institute of Technology and is currently a tenured professor at the School of Emergent Soft Matter, South China University of Technology in China. Before joining South China University of Technology, he worked as an R&D engineer at Hitachi High-Tech Corporation and a postdoctoral researcher at RIKEN. His recent research interests include the development of ferroelectric fluids, the design of complex domain structures using liquid-crystalline orders, mean-field modeling of polar topology in liquid matter, and the application of non-classical polar structures in liquid-matter nonlinear optics and ferroelectronics.

Title of the communication:
Polar topological solitons in confined helielectric nematic fluids