MASAKAZU KUZE

Last Updated :2025/03/03

Affiliations, Positions
Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Assistant Professor (Special Appointment)
E-mail
kuzem1234hiroshima-u.ac.jp
Other Contact Details
1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan
TEL : (+81) FAX : (+81)
Self-introduction
To understand the mechanisms of complex biological phenomena, we construct nonliving experimental systems using a unique chemical reaction that spontaneously forms dynamic spatio-temporal patterns and search for important factors in biological phenomena.

Basic Information

Major Professional Backgrounds

  • 2024/04/01, Organization for the Strategic Coordination of Research and Intellectual Properties, Meiji University, Researcher
  • 2022/04/01, 2024/03/31, Organization for the Strategic Coordination of Research and Intellectual Properties, Meiji University, Post-doctoral Research Fellow
  • 2020/04/01, 2022/03/31, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Educational Backgrounds

  • Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Program of Mathematical and Life Sciences

Academic Degrees

  • Hiroshima University
  • Hiroshima University

Research Fields

  • Chemistry;Applied chemistry;Functional solid state chemistry
  • Mathematical and physical sciences;Physics;Biological physics / Chemical physics / Soft matter physics

Research Keywords

  • Nonequilibrium / Self-organization / Dissipative structure / Oscillating reaction / Pattern formation / Active matter

Affiliated Academic Societies

  • The Chemical Society of Japan

Educational Activity

Course in Charge

  1. 2024, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Special Study for Graduation
  2. 2024, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Chemical Experiments I
  3. 2024, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Chemical Experiments II
  4. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Academic Year, Research for Academic Degree Dissertation in Mathematical and Life Sciences

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. The Achilles' Heel of a Traveling Pulse Subject to a Local External Stimulus, Physical Review E, 95, 062209-1-9, 20170612
  2. ★, Distinguishing the Dynamic Fingerprints of Two- and Three-Dimensional Chemical Waves in Microbeads, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 122(8), 1967-1971, 20180208
  3. Synchronization of self-propelled soft pendulums, Soft Matter, 14(19), 3791-3798, 20180502
  4. Chemical Wave Propagation in the Belousov−Zhabotinsky Reaction Controlled by Electrical Potential, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 123(23), 4853-4857, 20190516
  5. Coupling of Two Microbeads Exhibiting Different Features of Oscillations in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction, Chemistry Letters, 48(8), 847-850, 20190601
  6. Switching between Two Oscillatory States Depending on the Electrical Potential, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 125(14), 3638-3643, 20210402
  7. Traveling waves propagating through coupled microbeads in the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 23(42), 24175-24179, 20211015
  8. Coexistence of oscillatory and reduced states on a spherical field controlled by electrical potential, Chaos, 32, 073103-1-073103-7, 20220705
  9. Self-Propulsion Mode Switching of a Briggs–Rauscher Droplet, ChemSystemsChem, e202200030-1-e202200030-5, 20221221
  10. Originating Point of Traveling Waves on a Spherical Field Dependent on the Nature of Substrate Surface, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 127(4), 1841-1847, 20230119
  11. Up-and-down motion of a Belousov-Zhabotinsky bead in couple with chemical oscillation, Frontiers in Physics, 11, 1306533-1-1306533-4, 20231222