2006 - Present	Research Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Nevada, Reno
2003-2006	Research Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Nevada, Reno
2002-2003	Scientist, General Atomics, San Diego, California
2000-2002	Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Japan
1999-2000	Researcher, Institute for Laser Technology, Osaka, Japan

Physics of high energy density matter created by ultra short laser pulse. Numerical modeling of high energy density plasmas and ultra-short ultra-intense short pulse matter interaction including fat ion generation by ultra-short laser pulse, isochoric laser matter heating, and fast ignition in laser fusion.

Development of simulation code on a massive parallel computer system.

"Collisional relaxation of super themal electrons generated by relativistic laser pulses in dense plasma", A. J. Kemp, Y. Sentoku, V. Sotnikov, and S. C. Wilks, Phys. Rev. Lett., (2006).

"The production of ultrafast bright K-alpha X-rays from laser produced plasmas for medical imaging", J. Rassuchine, G. Dyer, B. Cho, Y. Sentoku, T. Cowan, S. Kneip, T. Ditmire, and N. Renard-Le Galloudec, Med. Phys, 33, 2251 (2006).

"Transient electrostatic fields and related energetic proton generation with a plasma fiber", Z. L. Chen, G. R. Kumar, Z. M. Sheng, M. Matusoka, Y. Sentoku, M. Tampo, K. A. Tanaka, T. Tsutsumi, T. Yabuuchi, and R. Kodama, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 084802 (2006).

"Laser hole boring and hot electron generation in the fast ignition scheme", Y. Sentoku, W. Kruer, M. Matsuoka, A. Pukhov, Fus. Sci. and Tech., 49, 278 (2006). "Electron cyclotron heating by fast magnetosonic waves generated during the interaction of a laser pulse with a magnetized plasma", V. I. Sotnikov, Y. Sentoku, and V. B. Krasovitskii, Phys. Plasmas 12, 110703 (2005)"

"Broad-range neutron spectra identification in ultraintse laser interactions with carbon-deuterated plasma", A. Youseef, R. Kodama, H. Habara, K. A. Tanaka, Y. Sentoku, M. Tampo, and Y. Toyama, Phys. Plasmas 12, 110703 (2005).

"Comparison of laser ion acceleration from the front and rear surfaces of thin foils", J. Fuchs, Y. Sentoku, S. Karsh, J. Cobble, A. Nikroo, M. Roth, P. Audebert, E. Brambrink, A. Blazevic, E. M. Campbell, J. Fernandez, J. -C. Gauthier, M. Geissel, M. Hegelich, R. Johnson, S. Letzring, H. Pepin, N. Renard-Le Galloudec, H. Ruhl, T. Shimada, J. Screiber, R. B. Stephens, and T. E. Cowan, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 045004 (2005).

"Petawatt-laser direct heating of uniformly imploded deuterated-polystyrene shell target", Y. Kitagawa, Y. Sentoku, S. Akamatsu, W. Sakamoto, K. A. Tanaka, R. Kodama, H. Nishimura, Y. Inubushi, M. Nakai, T. Watari, T. Norimatsu, and A. Sunahara', Phys. Rev. E 71, 016403 (2005).

"Plasma devices to guide and collimate a high density of MeV electrons", R. Kodama, Y. Sentoku, Z. L. Chen, G. R. Kumar, S. P. Hatchett, Y. Toyama, T. E. Cowan, R. R. Freeman, J. Fuchs, Y. Izawa, M. H. Key, Y. Kitagawa, K. Kondo, T. Matsuoka, H. Nakamura, M. Nakatsutsumi, P. A. Norreys, T. Norimatsu, R. A. Snavely, R. B. Stephens, M. Tampo, K. A. Tanaka, and T. Yabuuchi,, Nature 432, 1005 (2004).

"Anomalous inhibition of electron transport in laser-matter interaction at subrelativistic intensities", A. J. Kemp, Y. Sentoku, T. E. Cowan, J. Fuchs, and H. Ruhl, , Phys. Plasmas, 11, L69 (2004).

"Laser light and hot electron micro focusing using a conical target", Y. Sentoku, K. Mima, H. Ruhl, Y. Toyama, R. Kodama, and T. E. Cowan, Phys. Plasmas 11, 3083 (2004).

"Electron acceleration in an ultra-intense laser illuminated capillary", Y. Kitagawa, Y. Sentoku, S. Akamatsu, W. Sakamoto, R. Kodama, K. A. Tanaka, T. Norimatsu, T. Matsuoka, H. Fujita, and H. Yoshida, , Phys. Rev. Lett., {¥bf 92}, 205002 (2004).

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