Tomoo Katsura, Ph.D.

Professor of Structure and Dynamics of Earth Materials

Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth
95440 Bayreuth, GERMANY
TEL: +49-921-55-3791
FAX: +49-921-55-3769
E-mail: [email protected]

ORCID: 0000-0001-7857-5101

ResearcherID: A-7483-2010

Scopus Author ID: 7102140379

• 1991: Ph. D. in material science, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Japan
• 1988: Master of science in Earth science, Okayama University, Japan
• 1986: Bachelor of science in Geology and Mineralogy, Kyoto University, Japan

• 2018 –Present: DISTINGUISHED VISITING STAFF SCIENTIST (joint appointment), Center for High Pressure Science & Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR), China
• 2015 – 2023: VISITING PROFESSOR (joint appointment), Faculty of Science, Tohoku University, Japan
• 2015: VISITING RESEARCHER, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Japan
• 2010 – present: PROFESSOR, Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
• 2008 – 2011: VISITING PROFESSOR (joint appointment), Graduate University, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China
• 2007 – 2010: PROFESSOR, Institute for Study of the Earth’s Interior, Okayama University, Misasa, Japan
• 1997 – 2007: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, Institute for Study of the Earth’s Interior, Okayama University, Misasa, Japan
• 1993 – 1997: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Institute for Study of the Earth’s Interior, Okayama University, Misasa, Japan
• 1991 – 1993: VISITING SCIENTIST, Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
• 1991: RESEARCH FELLOW, Japan Society of Promotion of Science (JSPS), Japan

• Physics of the Earth’s interior
• High-pressure mineral physics
• High-pressure technology

See the "Publications" page.

• American Geophysical Union
• Mineralogical Society of America
• German Mineralogical Society
• Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences
• The Japan Society of High Pressure Science and Technology

• Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) Fellow (2022)
• Japan Society of High Pressure Science and Technology Award (2022)
• American Geophysical Society (AGU) Fellow (Mineral and Rock Physics) (2018)
• Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) Fellow (2016)
• Japan Association of Mineralogical Science Award (2016)

• PhD students
• • Yunke Song (guest student from Guiyang Institute of Geochemistry, CAS): Stability of hydrous phases under mid-mantle conditions

• PhD students
  
  • Dmitry Bondar (2022): Water partition coefficients between upper mantle minerals and melts as a function of P/T and CO₂ content using a rapid quench cell in multi-anvil experiments
  • Dmitry Druzhbin (2020). Thesis title: Silicon and Oxygen volume diffusion in Wadsleyite and implications to mantle transition zone rheology
  • Lin Wang (2018): Temperature, pressure and water content dependence of dislocation mobility in olivine
  • Stephan Blaha (2016), Thesis title: Water-content dependence of dislocation mobility of olivine in the [100](010) slip system
  • Hongzhan Fei (2013), Thesis title: Silicon and oxygen self-diffusion in forsterite and implications to upper-mantle rheology
    Award of Kulturpreis Bayern 2014
  • Geeth Manthilake (2009), Thesis title: Laboratory measurements of electrical conductivity and their application to composition and dynamics of the mantle
• Master student
  
  • Yang Li (2016) Thesis title: "Development of a novel method for high-pressure single-crystal growth and synthesis of giant single crystals of enstatite"
  • Lin Wang (2014) Thesis title: “Temperature and pressure dependence of [100](010) and [001](010) dislocation mobility in natural olivine”
  • Chamathni Hegoda (2009) Thesis title: “Silicon self-diffusion in forsterite at high pressure”
  • Kazuyuki Kawabe (2005) Thesis title: “A new method to synthesize single crystals at high-pressures : Dual Heating method”
  • Sho Yokoshi (2004) Thesis title: “Electrical conductivity measurement of （Mg0.93Fe0.07）SiO3 ilmenite and perovskite under lower mantle conditions"”

• BGI
  
  • Artem Chanyshev
  • Eun Jeong Kim
  • Narangoo Purevjav
  • Fei Wang
  • Lin Wang
  • Amrita Chakraborti
  • Naira Martirosyan
  • Jyotirmoy Paul

• HPSTAR
  
  • Huiyang Gou

• External coworkers

• European Research Council (ERC) Horizon2020
  
• • Advanced Grant
  • • UltraLVP (Grant agreement ID: 787527, Oct. 2018 - Sept. 2023) "Chemistry and transport properties of bridgmanite controlling lower-mantle dynamics", 2,642,120  EUR.

• German Research Foundation (DFG)
  

• • Research grant

  • • KA3434/20-1 (Mar. 2022 － ) "Accurate determination of the melting relations of primitive peridotite under lower-mantle conditions up to 35 GPa using advanced multi-anvil techniques" 249,000 EUR
      
    • KA3434/19-1 (Sept. 2021 － ) "Evaluation of the aspect ratio of ferropericlase under lower-mantle conditions" 246,400 EUR
      
    • KA3434/12-1 (Oct. 2018 － Dec. 2021) "Determination of water partition coefficients between upper mantle minerals and melts as a function of pressure, temperature, and CO₂ content using a rapid quench cell in multi-anvil experiments", 222,900 EUR
    • KA3434/11-1 (Dec 2018 － Nov 2021) "Determining the water dissociation constant from the relationship between water solubility in ringwoodite and oxygen fugacity", 201,500 EUR
      
    • KA3434/3-2 (July 2018 － Jun. 2021) "Dislocation recovery experiment of hydrous olivine as a function of water content and crystallographic orientation": 173,700 EUR

    • KA 3434/9-1 (Sept. 2015 － Aug. 2018) "Determination of the three phase region of the post-spinel transition in (Mg,Fe)₂SiO₄: explanation of the extreme sharpness of the 660-km discontinuity and implication for chemical structure and dynamics of the deep mantle" , 296,850 EUR.

    • KA 3434/8-1 (Apr. 2015 － Mar. 2018) "Messung von Si-Selbstdiffusionskoeffizienten in Wadsleyit als Funktion des Wassergehaltes", 259,650 EUR.
    • KA 3434/7-1 (Jun. 2014－May 2017) "Messung der Si-Korngrenzendiffusion von Forsterit in Abhängigkeit des Wassergehalts: Bestimmung der Steigerung der Kriechrate in verschiedenen Regionen des oberen Erdmantels", 190,388 EUR.
    • KA 3434/3-1 (Apr. 2013－ Mar. 2016) "Dislocation recovery experiment of hydrous olivine as a function of water content and crystallographic orientation", 249,300 EUR.
  • Research equipment
  • • INST 91/302 (Apr. 2013－Mar. 2016) "Fräsmaschine für Keramikteile", 240,731 EUR.
      
    • INST 91/291 (Apr. 2013－Mar. 2016) "Ultrahochdruck-Vielstempelapparatur", 371,000 EUR.
    • INST 91/273 (Dec. 2011－Nov. 2014) "Mikrofokussierendes Röntgendiffraktometer", 231,455 EUR.

• Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
• • 05K16WC2 (DESYPress, Jul. 2016 - Jun. 2021) "Erweiterung der Druckbereiche der In-Situ-Röntgenbeugung mit der Großvolumen-Hochdruckapparatur an der PETRA-III-Extension des Deutschen Elektronen-Synchrotrons DESY", 977,124 EUR
  • 05K13WC2 (DESYPress, Jul. 2013－Jun. 2016) "Aufbau einer experimentellen Station von Großvolumen-Hochdruckapparatur auf der Damping-Wiggler-Beamline der Deutschen Synchrotronstrahlung (DESY)", 1,186,000 EUR.