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Professor, Research Department, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature

Professor, Faculty of Science Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, University of the Ryukyus

Petrology and Mineralogy,Isotope Geochemistry

Ryuichi Shinjo took a research position at the Faculty of Science, University of the Ryukyus, in 1992, becoming a professor in 2007. His specialties are earth science, geology, petrology, and mineralogy. Fascinated by isotope geochemistry as powerful tool to explore dynamics occurring in earth system, he built a unique mass spectrometry laboratory including a laser ablation system and developed a technique for several isotope systematics (Sr, Nd, Pb, Hf, B, and Li) as tracers for the earth sciences. He has expanded the research subjects into submarine hydrothermal activity, hotspot and subduction zones magmatism at fields of the Okinawa TroughRyukyu Arc system, the African continent and the Himalayas.