[1] He is a professor at the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics at Kyoto University.
Takayanagi studied physics at the University of Tokyo, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1998 and his master's degree in 2000, and his doctorate in 2002 under Tohru Eguchi (superstring theory in Melvin background).
[3] In that research, they calculated the entropy from quantum entanglement in conformal field theory via the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of black holes in the context of Juan Maldacena's holographic principle and conformal field theories on a surface correspond to a theory of gravity in the enclosed volume.
[4] He received the 2015 New Horizons in Physics Prizes of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with Ryu, Horacio Casini, and Marina Huerta for their "fundamental ideas about entropy in quantum field theory and quantum gravity".
[5] In 2016 he was awarded the Nishina Memorial Prize for the "discovery and development of the holographic entanglement entropy formula".