Michael Y. Toriyama

Education

• Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering. Northwestern University (2024).
• B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering. B.S. in Mathematics. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2019).

Research Interests

• Spin defects
• Quantum materials
• Topological matter
• Thermoelectrics

Selected Publications

• M.Y. Toriyama, J. Zhan, S. Kanai, and G. Galli, Strategies to search for two-dimensional materials with long spin qubit coherence time, npj 2D Mater. Appl., 9, 108 (2025) [Link]
• L. Baldinelli, D. Sorbelli, M.Y. Toriyama, G. Bistoni, F. De Angelis, and G. Galli, Design Rules to Engineer the Spin Structure of Cr⁴⁺ Molecular Qubits via Matrix Modularity, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 147, 20693 (2025). [Link]
• M.Y. Toriyama and G.J. Snyder, Topological Insulators for Thermolectrics: A Perspective from Beneath the Surface, The Innovation, 6, 100782 (2025). [Link]
• A. Novitskii*, M.Y. Toriyama*, I. Serhiienko, T. Mori, G.J. Snyder, and P. Gorai, Defect Engineering of Bi₂SeO₂ Thermoelectrics, Adv. Funct. Mater., 2416509 (2024). [Link]
• M.Y. Toriyama and G.J. Snyder, Are Topological Insulators Promising Thermoelectrics?, Mater. Horiz., 11, 1188 (2024). [Link]
• M.Y. Toriyama, A.N. Carranco, G.J. Snyder, and P. Gorai, Material Descriptors for Thermoelectric Performance of Narrow-gap Semiconductors and Semimetals, Mater. Horiz., 10, 4256 (2023). [Link]
• M.Y. Toriyama, J. Qu, L.C. Gomes, and E. Ertekin, VTAnDeM: A Python Toolkit for Simultaneously Visualizing Phase Stability, Defect Energetics, and Carrier Concentrations of Materials, Comp. Phys. Commun., 287, 108691 (2023). [Link]
• H. Jang, M.Y. Toriyama, S. Abbey, B. Frimpong, J.P. Male, G.J. Snyder, Y.S. Jung, and M. Oh, Suppressing Charged Cation Antisites via Se Vapor Annealing Enables p‐Type Dopability in AgBiSe₂-SnSe Thermoelectrics, Adv. Mater., 2204132 (2022). [Link]
• M.Y. Toriyama, J. Qu, G.J. Snyder, and P. Gorai, Defect Chemistry and Doping of BiCuSeO, J. Mater. Chem. A, 9, 20685 (2021). [Link]

(Full list: Google Scholar)

Awards

• 2024 Graduate Student Award, International Thermoelectrics Society
• 2023 Weertman Fellowship
• 2019 Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
• 2018 Barry Goldwater Scholarship