Member

For prospective students:

If you are interested in joining SMEPP (soft matter earth and planetary science) group,

please do not hesitate to e-mail me. (katsuragi "ＡＴ" ess.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp)

Admissions info can be found here (in Japanse) (Department of Earth and Space Science).

Current Member:

See group web site (member page is written in Japanese...)

Alumni (Nagoya University):

Fumiaki Okubo (Master, 2022) : Impact drag by hierarchical granular matter

Terunori Irie (Master, 2021) : Deformation of a centrifuged sand pile

Tomomi Omura (PostDoc researcher, 2019-2020) :Relaxation of slope by impact / Hierarchical granular matter

Daisuke Tsuji (Dr. Sci., 2020, JSPS research fellow DC1) : Relaxation of vibrated granular heap

Felipe Pacheco Vazquez (Visiting Associate Professor, 2019) : Compression of a hierarchical granular column

Shinta Takizawa (Master, 2019) : Cratering by an oblique impact onto an included granular layer

Kazuya Egawa (Bachelor, 2019) : Discontinuous shear thickening by impact

Takatsune Furuta (Master, 2018): Granular friction by puling rod

Ayuko Shinoda (Master, 2018) : Wet granular mechanics and crab burrow

Naoki Iikawa (Master, 2016; -2018, JSPS research fellow DC2) : Force chain structure by photoelastic disks

Hirofumi Niiya (Research Assistant Professor, 2017-2018)

Tomoya M. Yamada (Dr. Sci., 2017, JSPS research fellow DC2) : Granular convection and asteroidal resurfacing

Hiroki Tsuji (Bachelor, 2017) : Water channel instability

Nao Mitsui (Researcher, 2016) : Rotation of grains in granular convection

Keita Endo (Master, 2016) : Granular silo flow