Biographical Sketch

Tatsuki Tsujimori is a professor of geological sciences who specializes in metamorphic petrology and regional tectonics, with a particular research focus on high- and ultrahigh-pressure (HP- UHP) metamorphic rocks including, not limited to, blueschists, jadeitites, and serpentinites. As named a 2013 Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) Fellow and 2014 Geological Society of America (GSA) Fellow, his contributions and his character are internationally recognized in those research fields. After earning his PhD in 1999, supervised by Alkira Ishiwatari, at Kanazawa University and completing a post-doc fellowship at Stanford University (2002–2006), he became a faculty member—first in Okayama University at Misasa (2006–2015), and then at Tohoku University since 2015.

His early works focused on petrotectonic study of a Japanese Paleozoic serpentinite-matrix mélange with blocks of various HP metamorphic/metasomatic rocks. As a skilled field geologist with a strong background in petrology, he reconstructed a fossilized slab–mantle-wedge interface that contains blueschist, jadeitite, and newly discovered eclogite. He also worked with Tetsumaru Itaya on phengite geochronology. Notably Tatsuki has engaged a variety of HP-UHP research with J.G. Liou, Gary Ernst, Ruth Zhang and the late Bob Coleman. He has also worked closely with George Harlow on jadeite jade. Since his post-doc time, he has made numerous, cooperative academic exchanges with many oversea researchers. In his Misasa era, as a faculty in a joint use-research institution, he was involved numerous research exchanges and academic cooperation for many oversea visitors and internship students. Then his continuous work on blueschist, eclogites and jadeitites has had a great influence on the geoscience community. His research led in part to the designation of jadeitite as the national stone of Japan by the Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences (JAMS). Current research at Sendai is designed to understand the geodynamic and geochemical processes of Proterozoic and Phanerozoic active convergence margin—from the mineral equilibrium level to the plate tectonic scale and to link HP-UHP metamorphism of ancient subduction zones to geophysical observations of modern analogues, to evaluate hydration and dehydration along the subduction channels, and subsequent slab–mantle interaction. With his students and young associates, he has energetically published variety of papers. Lastly, he is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Island Arc and a member of the editorial boards of several scientific journals.

Author Identifiers

ORCID: 0000-0001-9202-7312
Web of Science ResearcherID: D-2677-2009
Scopus Author ID: 6603495714

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