Ryohei Seto

Ryohei Seto

Dr. Ryohei Seto is a distinguished physicist specializing in the science of soft materials, with expertise spanning colloidal dynamics, suspension rheology, and granular systems. He earned his Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics in 2006 and subsequently received a prestigious French government postdoctoral fellowship, conducting research on colloidal gels at the Solid States Physics Laboratory in Orsay and the Chemical Engineering Laboratory in Toulouse. His postdoctoral work continued at leading institutions, including the Technical University of Munich, the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, and the City College of New York. In 2015, he joined the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology as a group leader (senior staff scientist), and since October 2019, he has served as a Principal Investigator at the Wenzhou Institute, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He also holds positions as a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Simulation Studies, University of Hyogo, and as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, where he collaborates on projects at the intersection of material science and fluid mechanics. Internationally recognized for his groundbreaking research on shear thickening—a phenomenon where fluid viscosity dramatically increases under stress—he has significantly advanced the understanding of complex fluids, with one of his landmark papers receiving the 2015 Publication Award from The Society of Rheology. His influential work and numerous invited talks at international conferences and workshops underscore his profound impact on the field.

Profile

Work history

  • 2024–present Research Fellow, Institute of industrial Science, University of Tokyo
  • 2022–present Researcher, Oujiang Laboratory (Zhejiang Lab for Regenerative Medicine, Vision and Brain Health)
  • 2020–present Visiting Professor, University of Hyogo
  • 2019–present PI Researcher(Professor), Wenzhou Institute, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • 2021 BCAM visiting fellow, Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (Prof. Marco Ellero)
  • 2018–2019 Program-Specific Researcher, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan (Prof. Ryoichi Yamamoto)
  • 2015–2018 Group Leader, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna, Japan (Prof. Eliot Fried)
  • 2012–2014 Research Associate, the Levich Institute, City College of New York, New York, USA (Prof. Jeffrey F. Morris and Prof. Morton Denn)
  • 2012–2012 Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Plank Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany (Prof. Günter Auernhammer)
  • 2009–2011 Postdoctoral Researcher, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany (Prof. Heiko Briesen)
  • 2008–2009 Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratoire de Genie Chimique, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France (Prof. Martine Meireles)
  • 2006–2008 Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris-Sud 11, Orsay, France (Prof. Robert Botet)
  • 2006 Dr. of Science in Physics Ritsumeikan University, Japan (Prof. Hiroshi Kuratsuji)

Grants

  • NSFC-RFIS II (外国学者研究基金プロジェクト, 外国優秀青年学者) 12150610463 [2022–2023]
    • Computational rheology to investigate aging effects of composite materials
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  • NSFC 一般プロジェクト（面上項目） 12174390 [2022–2025]
    • New simulation scheme for migration and clogging of dense suspensions in channel flow
  • JSPS KAKENHI, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) 17K05618 [2017–2019]
    • Discontinued (Fiscal Year 2018)
    • Rheology and flow simulation of shear thickening suspensions

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