Research Topics

• High-pressure mineral physics
• Deep Earth rheology

Courses in Charge

Undergraduate course	Practice of Earth and planetary systems science B, Physics of Earth and planetary interiors B, etc.
Graduate course	Dynamics in the Earth, Deep Earth materials science, etc.

Selected Publications

1. Ando, J., Fujino, K. and Takeshita, T., 1993, Dislocation microstructures in naturally deformed silicate garnets. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 80 : 105-116
2. Ando, J., Shibata, Y., Okajima, Y., Kanagawa, K., Furusho, M. and Tomioka, N., 2001, Striped iron zoning of olivine induced by dislocation creep in deformed peridotites. Nature, 414, 893-895.
3. Han, R., Shimamoto, T., Hirose, T., Ree, J.H. and Ando, J., 2007, Ultra-low friction of carbonate faults caused by thermal decomposition. Science. 316, 878-881