Tokyo Institute of Technology Earth-Life Science Institute, Department of Earth and Planetary Science Genda-Lab

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In Genda-lab, we are doing research on how solar system bodies (planets, satellites, small bodeis etc.) formed and evolved. Our goal is to understand the origins of wide varieties among those boides. Why does Earth have oceans? Why not for the others? What determined the size of planets? Are there life beyond Earth? What conditions made Earth have life? We are investigating those fundamental questions. In our lab, we are solving the processes in which planetary bodies form and evolve based on physical and chemical laws mainly via computer simulations. We call this numerical experiments. Our results and hypotheses should be tested and validated. So, we are being involved in on-going and future planetary explorations (Hayabusa 2, MMX etc.), and we are collaborating with many researchers whose specialities are experiments, analysis, observations, and field works. Let's enjoy research together!

Recent Information

2024/04/15 New fiscal year just started. Member list was updated. 2024/04/04 We took a group photo of Genda-lab. Sorry, Courteney. You were in U.S. . 2024/01/26 Genda-lab students celebrated Professor Genda's birthday (1/24). 2023/11/22 Professor Genda published a paper in Icarus as a co-author. We performed model calculations to examine whether the origin of the Martian moons can be determined by using the gamma-ray and neutron spectrometer (MEGANE) on board the MMX spacecraft. As a result, the possiblity for the discrimination is found to be about 70%, although it depends on the observation error. Hirata, K., Usui, T., Hyodo, R., Genda, H., Fukai, R., Lawrence, D. J., Chabot, N. L., Peplowski, P. N., and Kusano, H. (2024) Mixing model of Phobos' bulk elemental composition for the determination of its origin: Multivariate analysis of MMX/MEGANE data. Icarus, accepted / astro-ph

Access to Genda-Lab

Genda-lab is located at Ookayama campus (Ishikawadai area) in Tokyo Institute of Technology. Genda's office is 302 room on the 3rd floor in ELSI-1 building (= Ishikawadai-7 building). It takes 12 mins from Ookayama station and 5 mins from Ishikawadai station by walk.

Contact

Address	2-12-1-I7E-302 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan Tokyo Institute of Technology Earth-Life Science Institute Hidenori GENDA	Telephone	+81-3-5734-3289
		E-mail	genda_at_elsi.jp (change _at_ to @)

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