Tatsuki Tsujimori

Professor

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.