Profile/ Curriculum Vitae

Personal Information
 Takaaki KAWAZOE, Ph.D.
    ・ Born in Uwajima, Ehime, Japan in 1978


Research Interests

  ○ Rheological properties of deep mantle & planetary minerals
    ・ Viscosity
      (steady-state deformation (creep strength), transient deformation)
    ・ Crystallographic preferred orientation
    ・ Dislocation (slip system, activity, mobility)
  ○ Synthesis of deep mantle minerals
    ・ High-quality large single crystal, polycrystalline aggregate
    ・ Wadsleyite, ringwoodite, majorite, bridgmanite, etc.
  ○ Technical development for high-pressure (deformation) experiments
    ・ Expansion of experimental conditions
    ・ Miniature multianvil apparatus for optical measurements
  □ Special field
    ・ High-pressure Earth science
    ・ Experimental mineral physics

Address
  Department of Earth and Planetary Systems Science,
  Hiroshima University
   Kagamiyama 1-3-1, Higashi-hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan
    ・ TEL:  +81-82-424-5271
    ・ FAX:  +81-82-424-0735
    ・ E-mail: kawazoe (at) hiroshima-u.ac.jp





Professional Experience
  2017/10 - Present Assistant Professor (Tenure Track)
                Department of Earth and Planetary Systems Science,
                Hiroshima University, Japan
  2013/ 2 - 2017/ 9  Assistant Professor (Akademischer Rat auf Zeit)
                Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth, Germany
  2011/ 5 - 2013/ 1  Global COE Research Fellow
                Geodynamics Research Center, Ehime University, Japan
  2008/11 - 2011/ 4  Global COE Postdoctoral Fellow
                Geodynamics Research Center, Ehime University, Japan
  2008/ 8 - 2008/10  Postdoctoral Researcher
                Geodynamics Research Center, Ehime University, Japan
  2006/ 3 - 2008/ 7  Postdoctoral Associate, Prof. Karato Laboratory,
                Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, USA






Education
  2006/3  Doctor of Science (Earth Science), Tohoku University, Japan
         (Supervisor: Professor Eiji Ohtani)
         (Earth and planetary material physics research group)
  2003/3  Master of Science (Earth Science), Tohoku University, Japan
  2001/3  Bachelor of Science (Earth Science), Tohoku University, Japan



Teaching
  ○ Supervision of an undergraduate student
    ・ Kei Shiraishi (from April 2018)
  ○ Supervision of master students
    ・ Alok Chaudhari (April - September 2015)
    ・ Haihao Guo   (April - September 2014)
  ○ Second examiner of master students
    ・ Lin Wang (August 2014)
  □ Qualification
    ・ High school specialized teacher's certificate (science)




Professional Membership
  ・ American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  ・ Mineralogical Society of America (MSA)
  ・ Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU)
  ・ Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences
  ・ Japan Society of High Pressure Science and Technology
Motto
 The best way to predict the future is to invent it (by Alan Kay).