Professor @ Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
PI @ Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI)
Director @ Museum of Evolving Earth
Stable Isotope/Isotopologue Geochemistry
Precambrian Biogeochemical Cycling
Chemistry of Planetary Atmospheres
Emergence and Evolution of Life on Earth & Beyond
Yuchen Sun
Assistant Professor @ Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Organic Geochemistry
Global Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling
Enantiomer-specific Isotope Analysis of Amino Acids
Jakub Surma
Postdoctoral Researcher
Isotopologue geochemistry
34S18O clumping in sulfate
Xiaofeng Zang
Postdoctoral Researcher
Photochemical synthesis of organic nitrogen species
Abiological nitrogen fixation
Proto-metabolism
Mayuko Nakagawa
JSPS Postdoctoral Researcher
Compound- and Position-specific carbon isotope analysis of phytol
Carbona and sulfur cycling in anoxic lake systems
Nino Lauber
Research Scientist (CO world project)
Rule-based modeling of ancestral metabolism
Kim Beomsik
PhD candidate
Isotopologue analysis of PAH, using APCI-Orbitrap and NMR
Organic geochemistry of Precambrian kerogen
Haruna Wakabayashi
PhD candidate
Abiological synthesis of organic acids in serpentinization hot spring
Position-specific isotope analysis of acetate.
Kaiyu Wu
PhD candidate
Barium in carbonate as a proxy of Precambrian sulfate cycling
Yuta Sato
PhD candidate
Intramolecular carbon isotope distribution of acetate and sugars
Microbial acetogenesis
Al Kurihara
PhD candidate
Proterozoic sulfur cycling
Multiple sulfur isotopes
Isotope fractionation mechanism of microbial sulfate reduction
Yuta Asakura
Graduate student
Emergence of ancestral metabolism
Autocatalytic amplification of chiral sugar and amino acid
Yoshiaki Shirai
Graduate student
Characterization of Precambrian kerogen using UV decomposition methood
Fuka Nagayama
Graduate student
Intramolecular isotope anaysis of Precambrian kerogen
Shio Watanabe
Administrative Support Stuff
Hiromi Daimon
Administrative Support Stuff
Kumiko Nishiuchi
Technical Support Stuff
HPLC
Mika Zenibayashi
Research Assistant
Almuni
Former faculty / Postdoc (current affiliation)
Alexis Gilbert (Utrecht Univ.)
Associate Professor / Position-Specific-Isotope-Analysis (PSIA), Developping GC-Py-GC-C-IRMS / NMR
Maxime Julien (Nantes Univ.)
Postdoc / PSIA of fatty acids and other metabolites
Li Liu
JSPS Post-doctoral Fellow / Multiple sulfur isotope analysis of granitoids
Masafumi Saitoh (Univ. Tokyo)
Postdoc / End-paleozoic extincition event, Nitrogen cycling, Sulfur cycling
Julien Foriel (Harverd Univ.)
Lab-manager (ELSI) / TCEA and ULTRA
Yusuke Sawaki (Univ. Tokyo)
Assistant Professor / Pc/C-boundary event, Chemostratigraphy, Geochronology
Sebastian (Fuyutsuki) Danielache (Sofia Univ.)
Postdoc / Ab-initio study on isotope fractionation, photochemistry, spectroscopy
Manabu Nishizawa (JAMSTEC)
Postdoc / Biogeochemistry of nitrogen, Detection of biological activity from Archean deposits
PhD
Fatima Li-Hau (OIST)
PhD thesis 2024: Investigating geochemical drivers of microbial ecology in iron-rich hot springs: Metagenomic and machine laerning approaches
Kodai Taguchi (JAMSTEC)
PhD thesis 2024: Biogeochemistry of 13C-13C clumped isotopologue and its implications on hydrocarbon origin
Xiaofeng Zang
PhD thesis 2023: Atmospheric synthesis of NH3 and amino acids from N2O and its implication for the prebiotic chemistry
Hisahiro Ueda (Gakushuin Univ.)
PhD thesis 2019: Experimental study on H2 generation by the reactions between komatiite and CO2-rich seawater: Imprication for hydrothermal fluid in the early Earth
Yoshiaki Endo (Tohoku Univ.)
PhD thesis 2019: Experimental study on sulfur mass-independent fractionation during SO2 photochemistry and its application to Archean atmopshere
Kaoru Mishima (JOGMEC)
PhD thesis 2017: Tectonic and paleo-environmental study of the late Archean Dharwar Supergroup, Southern India
Shinnosuke Aoyama
PhD thesis 2017: Microbial sulfate reduction through Eath's history
Fumihiro Matsu'ura (National Institute of Technology, Ibaraki College)
PhD thesis 2016: Sulfur cycling in Ediacaran and early Cambrian periods reconstructed from quadruple sulfur isotope analysis and culture experiment of sulfate reducing bacteria
Konomi Suda (AIST)
PhD thesis 2016: Origin of hydrocarbons in on-land serpentinization fields and insights into Hadean hydrothermal systems: systematic study using stable isotopes
Miki Tahata
PhD thesis 2013: The change of carbon cycle system through Ediacaran period; comparison with environmental changes and lief evolution
Tomoko Ishikawa
PhD thesis 2011: The irreversible change of oceanic carbon cycle through Precambrian/Phanerozoic transition and its relation to biological evolution
MSc
Chiyori Nakajo
Stepwise extraction of phosphate from carbonate for estimating Proterozoic marine phosphate availability
Kodai Moori
Incorporation of sulfur into protometabolism from CO-bearing atmospheres
Mellinda Aimee B. JaJalla (Univ. Tokyo)
Isotopologue analysis of hydrocarbon cycling in the Tokamachi mud volcano, Japan
Riho Aoki
Field and experimental study on 34S-18O clumped isotope for microbial sulfur cycling
Kenta Isoda
Source and sink of glyoxylate in CO-bearing atmosphere
Toshiki Katsuta
Measurement of 34S-18O clumping in Proterozoic sulfate
Yusuke Kubota (Penn State)
The study on material cycle of Archean mantle: Sulfur isotope anomaly of komatiite
Hikaru Yagi
Hydrogen isotopic composition of pyroxenes in gabbro
Takaki Ishimaru
Development of analytical methods for S-O clumped isotope in sulfate
Waka Kawade
Experimental Study on UV synthesis of organic compounds from CO and CO2 atmospheres
Tomokazu Murai
Hydrogen isotopic composition of Archean seawater and mantle: Bulk and micro-scale analysis of hydrous minerals by TCEA and SIMS
Tsubasa Hirai
Origins of macromolecular sedimentay organic matters using Ruthenium-ion-catalyzed oxidation oand solid phase micro-extraction
Fumiya Tomiyasu
Hydrogen isotopic composition of Archean seawater: Metamorphic petrology and isotopic analysis of 6 Ma and 3200 Ma seafloor basalt
Tetsuya Kawamura
Extracting organic sulfur species and quadruple sulfur isotope analysis for unraveling Archean sulfur cycle
BSc
Tenga Yokoyama (Univ. Tokyo)
CO大気から合成される有機物の生成量を支配する要因の解明
Shotaro Aso
同位体分子を考慮した化学反応モデルの構築とその応用
Takato Uchiyama
好熱好酸性硫酸還元菌の硫黄同位体分別
Yuya Ishida
後期太古代キャラワインドロマイト層から抽出した炭酸塩置換態硫酸の硫黄同位体分析
Ayumi Akiyama
低温でのFTT反応による炭化水素の合成と安定同位体的特徴
Shoko Ito
地球初期大気から海洋に供給される生物前駆物質の実験的研究
Yuki Murakami
中期太古代海洋地殻の水素同位体分布
Tomoyuki Koda
エディアカラ紀の揚子地塊大陸縁における有機窒素同位体の分布とその変動
Guest
Visiting Research Scientists
Kenji Shimizu (JAMSTEC)
Hydrogen isotope analysis of nominaly unhydrous minerals
Maria Cherdantseva (UWA, Australia)
Multiple sulfur isotope study of granitoids
Marco Fiorentini (UWA, Australia)
Multiple sulfur isotope study of granitodis
Tomoaki Koya (Tohoku University)
Sulfur isotope study on Kuroko deposit
Chen Chen (RIKEN)
Homochiral polyester formation driven by some alpha-hydroxy acids
Li-Hun Lin (NTU, Taiwan)
Biogeochemical S-O-cycling
Pei-Ling Wang (NTU, Taiwan)
Biogeochemical S-O-cycling
Luisa Pennacchio (Univ. Copenhagen, Denmark)
Photochemisty on Mars
Matthew S Johnson (Univ. Copenhagen, Denmark)
Photochemistry / Isotope Effect / Early Atmosphere
Simon Paulton (Univ. Leeds)
Redox fluctuation and C cycling in Early Cambrian
Past Visitors / Internship Program
Andy Fong (Summer program: MIT)
Photochemical organic synthesis with minerals
Youcef Baaliouamer (IPGP internship: Paris Cité University)
Isotopic S-O-clumping of sulfate in meterorites
Sharlotte C Mkhonto (MITACS fellow: Queens Univ.)
Sulfur isotope geochemistry of Bushvelt Complex
Robin Havas (JSPS fellow: Université Bourgogne Europe)
S and C cycling in modern and ancient lake systems
Elina Kong (UWA, Australia)
Multiple sulfur isotope study of granitoids
Stefano Caruso (UWA, Australia)
Multiple sulfur isotope study of granitoids in Yilgarn Craton
Chengzhou Jiang (Internship: China Univ. of Petroleum Beijing)
Origin of sulfur in Paleozoic lake deposits
Peter Crockford (MITACS fellow: McGill Univ.)
Microbial S cycling through time / Isotopic analysis of fluid inclusion H2S
Crara Savarino
PSIA analysis of propanotrophic sulfate reducer