Tatsuki Tsujimori is a professor in the Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku
University. After earning his Ph.D. in 1999 from 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. He specializes in metamorphic petrology and regional tectonics. His research focuses on the petrogenesis and geochemistry of
high-pressure metamorphic rocks such as blueschists, jadeitites, and eclogites. In 2006, Prof. Tsujimori received the Geological Society of
Japan Masanori Sakuyama Award. He became a Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America in 2013 and of the Geological Society of
America in 2014. Currently, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Island Arc and a member of the editorial boards of several scientific
journals.
