Takeshi Kuroda, Ph.D.

Current Titles

Assistant Professor of Planetary Atmospheric Physics Laboratory
Department of Geophysics, Graduate School of Science
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
(Also: Division for the Establishment of Frontier Sciences, Organization for Advanced Studies, Tohoku University)

Research Collaborator
Terahertz Remote Sensing Team, Terahertz Research Center
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Koganei, Japan

picked-up research Topics

Adsorptive Regolith on Mars Soaks Up Water, Researchers Reveal (2025-02-26)
https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/press/adsorptive_regolith_on_mars_soaks_up_water_researchers_reveal.html

Organic Matter on Mars was Formed from Atmospheric Formaldehyde (2024-09-19)
https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/press/organic_matter_on_mars_was_formed_from_atmospheric_formaldehyde.html

Biomolecules from Formaldehyde on Ancient Mars (2024-02-28)
https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/press/biomolecules_from_formaldehyde_on_ancient_mars.html
Article in Phys.org:
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-possibility-life-mars-biomolecules-atmospheric.html

Simulation of the “cool and wet” climate of early (3.8 billion-years-ago) Mars
http://www.gp.tohoku.ac.jp/research/topics-en/20210119090620.html

Projects Involved

Science Team Member of the Japanese Venus Climate Orbiter (Akatsuki)
Co-Investigator of the Sub-Millimeter Wave Instrument onboard the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer Mission (JUICE/SWI)
Science Team Member of the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission (MAVEN)

Affiliated Academic Societies

American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Division for Planetary Sciences, American Astronomical Society (DPS/AAS)
Society of Geomagnetism and Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences (SGEPSS)
Meteorological Society of Japan
The Japanese Society for Planetary Sciences
The Japan Society of Atmospheric Chemistry