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.

濑户亮平(SETO, Ryohei)博士是一位杰出的物理学家，专注于软物质科学领域，研究专长涵盖胶体动力学、悬浮液流变学以及颗粒系统。他于2006年获得凝聚态物理学博士学位，随后获得法国政府博士后研究基金资助，在奥赛固态物理实验室和图卢兹化学工程实验室从事胶体凝胶相关研究。他曾在多所世界知名研究机构继续开展博士后工作，包括慕尼黑工业大学、美因茨的马克斯·普朗克高分子研究所，以及纽约城市学院。2015年，他加入冲绳科学技术大学院大学担任研究小组组长（资深科学家），自2019年10月起，他成为中国科学院大学温州研究院的研究员（Principal Investigator），领导独立研究团队。他还担任兵库大学模拟学研究科的客座教授，并在东京大学生产技术研究所担任研究员，参与材料科学与流体力学交叉领域的合作项目。濑户博士因其在剪切增稠现象研究方面的开创性工作而享有国际声誉。这种现象指的是流体在应力作用下粘度显著增加的过程。他的研究显著推动了对复杂流体的理解，其中一篇具有里程碑意义的论文曾获得2015年美国流变学会的年度最佳论文奖。他在国际会议和研讨会上的多次受邀报告进一步彰显了他在这一领域的深远影响。

Profile

Work history

  • 2024–present Research Fellow, Institute of industrial Science, University of Tokyo
  • 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 (外国学者研究基金项目, 外国优秀青年学者) 12150610463 [2022–2023]
    • Computational rheology to investigate aging effects of composite materials
  • NSFC 面上项目 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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