Bio
Associate Professor at Division of Applied Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University. He was born in Tokyo in 1964. He received his B. Eng. (1988), M. Eng. (1990), and D. Eng. (1993) degree from Hokkaido University (he studied about air-hydrate crystals in Antarctic ice). He served as a postdoctoral fellow of science and technology, the Science and Technology Agency (now the Ministry of Education) in 1992-1994 to study about the CO2 sequestration in deep sea by gas hydrates. In 1994-2004, he worked in the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (now AIST) to study about the resource development of CH4 hydrate. Then he has been working in Hokkaido University since 2004. H2O science has always been the center of his interest, such as cryobiology, ultrafine bubbles, ice and gas hydrates.