Ryo Maezono is a full professor at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), School of Information Science, working in the area of simulation science research. He received his B.Sc. (1995) and Ph.D. (2000) in applied physics at The University of Tokyo, focusing on condensed matter theory in relation to phase diagrams of magnetic oxides. He was a fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) at The University of Tokyo), working on the magnetic properties of oxides. He obtained a postdoctoral position at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University (EPSRC fellow 2000–2002), and moved to the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan, as a tenured researcher (2001–2007). In 2007, he moved to JAIST and is now a tenured faculty member there. Since completing his postdoc in Cambridge, he has worked on diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) electronic structure calculations using massive parallel computations.
