1. Emergence of manybody effects in semiconductor systems
2. Dynamical responses of interacting electron systems
3. Electron-hole systems: photoexcited semiconductors, semimetals, Dirac electron systems
4. Excitons, trions and biexcitons in low-dimensional/mesoscopic semiconductor structures
5. Strongly correlated electron systems
6. Quantum Hall systems

Selected Publications:

"Exciton–Mott Physics in Two-Dimensional Electron–Hole Systems: Phase Diagram and Single-Particle Spectra", Kenichi Asano and Takuya Yoshioka, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn., 83, 084702 (2014).

"Trions in semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes", Kouta Watanabe and Kenichi Asano, Phys. Rev. B, 85, 035416 (2012).

"Exciton-Mott Physics in a Quasi-One-Dimensional Electron-Hole System" Takuya Yoshioka and Kenichi Asano, Phys. Rev. Lett., 107, 256403 (2011).

"Biexcitons in semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes" Kouta Watanabe and Kenichi Asano, Phys. Rev. B, 83, 115406 (2011).

"Designing Dirac points in two-dimensional lattices" Kenichi Asano and Chisa Hotta, Phys. Rev. B, 83, 245125 (2011).

"Quantum Condensation in Electron–Hole Bilayers with Density Imbalance" Kazuo Yamashita, Kenichi Asano and Takuma Ohashi, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn., 79, 033001 (2010).

1999

Ph. D, Tokyo University, Department of Physics

1996-1999

Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (DC1)

1999-2002

Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (PD)

2002-2003

Postdoctoral fellow of Quantum Phase Electronics Center, Tokyo University

2003-2004

Postdoctoral fellow of Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)

2004-2018

Associate Professor of Osaka University

2018-

Professor of Osaka University