Shio Inagaki Laboratory
I graduated from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo in 2004. After working as a postdoctoral fellow at the Australian National University, University of Paris VI (ESPCI), and Kyoto University, as a Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (RPD), and as an assistant professor and associate professor at the Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Kyushu University, I have been in my current position since April 2025.
[Research interest]
My specialty is the physics of non-equilibrium dissipative systems, especially granular materials, traffic flows, and oscillator systems, which I study comprehensively using experiments, theory, and simulations. We are surrounded by a wide variety of powders and granules such as sand piles in parks, seasonings, powdered medicines, and so on. Unlike conventional liquids and solids, they have interesting properties, such as the tendency to segregate the more you try to mix them. However, the mechanism of segregation, i.e., under what conditions they segregate, has not yet been clarified. There are unexpectedly many natural phenomena around us that have yet to be elucidated. Physics offers the joy and beauty of discovering the why and wherefore of things, and of clarifying the reason for things.
[Research topics]
・Segregation phenomena of granular materials
・Oscillatory motion of clusters of grains
・Traffic flow
・Oscillation of candle flames
