Takumi is a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell University in Professor Eric Dufresne’s lab. He has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago, IL, and a B.A. in physics and chemistry (summa cum laude, with distinction) from Kalamazoo College, MI. During his Ph.D., he worked on turbulence by colliding vortex rings (aka smoke rings), demonstrating that turbulence can be localized and manipulated as a state of matter. Besides his interests in fluid dynamics, he studies the physics of phase separation and its roles in biology. At Cornell University, he works on the dynamics of biomolecular condensates, a new frontier in biophysics and cell biology.
Current projects:
- turbulence: decay (experimental, engineering)
- controlling protein droplets: motility control using enzymes, thermodynamics and kinetics of phase separation (experimental)
- phase separation X machine learning
- development of a Python package to assess fluid mechanics data (software)
- development of a Python package to assess microscopic data (software)
Past projects
- turbulence: creation of a turbulent blob through vortex ring collision (experimental, theoretical, numerical, engineering)
- flow visualization: turbulent flows, flows inside objects using an index-matched fluid and a 3D printer,
- splashing of low-viscosity fluids (experimental)
- 3D melting of Yukawa system (Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics (LAMMPS) simulations)
- assessment of muon production rate by several experimental scenarios @Fermilab (numerical)
- modeling synaptic plasticity of Alzheimer's patients (numerical)
- mathematical modeling on vaccine efficacy (mathematical)
- Cowl design and manufacturing, Formula SAE Japan (engineering)