History

Oct 2024–Present

Deputy Group Leader/Principal Researcher

Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan
Apr 2024–Sep 2024

Deputy Group Leader/Senior Researcher

Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan
Apr 2020–Mar 2024

Senior Researcher

Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan
Jul 2014–Mar 2020

Senior Research Scientist

Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan
Dec 2007–Jun 2014

Associate Professor

Institute for Study of the Earth's Interior, Okayama University, Japan
Feb 2001–Nov 2007

Assistant Professor

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Kobe University, Japan
Apr 2000–Jan 2001

Visiting Scientist

Department of Geology, Arizona State University, U.S.A.
Apr 1999–Jan 2001

Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Mar 1999

Ph.D. Hokkaido University

Mar 1996

M.S. Hokkaido University

Mar 1994

B.Sc. Hokkaido University

Major Research Interests

Awards and Honors

2026Meteoritics & Planetary Science: Top 10 Most-cited paper Article 2024 (Imae, Tomioka et al., 2024)
2025Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences Award
2025Top 10 Most-cited Article 2024 in Meteoritics & Planetary Science (Noguchi et al. [including Tomioka], 2024)
2023Sakurai Medal, Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences
2022Fellow, Mineralogical Society of America
2019Top 20 Most Downloaded Article in 2017–2018, Meteoritics & Planetary Science (Tomioka & Miyahara, 2017)
2017Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, Elsevier
2009Kazato Prize for Young Microscopist Award, Kazato Research Foundation
2008Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences Research Paper Award (Tomioka, 2007)
1997Outstanding Student Paper Award at 1997 fall meeting, American Geophysical Union

Journal Reviewer

NatureScienceProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Science AdvancesScientific ReportsGeology Communications Earth & EnvironmentGeochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Earth and Planetary Science LettersJournal of Geophysical Research: Planets Geophysical Research LettersJournal of Petrology Contributions to Mineralogy and PetrologyAmerican Mineralogist ACS Earth and Space ChemistryPhysics and Chemistry of Minerals Meteoritics & Planetary SciencePhysics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors Journal of Raman SpectroscopyProgress in Earth and Planetary Science Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological SciencesEarth, Planets and Space Journal of the Crystallographic Society of Japan Planetary People (Journal of the Japanese Society for Planetary Science): Guest editor, 2011

Affiliated Societies

Publications

Peer-reviewed papers

160. Umeda, Y., Seto, Y., Tomioka, N., Arima-Osonoi, H., Hironaka, Y., Inubushi, Y., Katagiri, K., Kodama, R., Miyanishi, K., Nakamura, H., Ozaki, N., Sato, T., Sueda, K., Togashi, T., Yabuuchi, T., Yabashi, M., Sekine, T., and Okuchi, T. (2026, in press) Structural evolution of antigorite at high-velocity impact conditions. Journal of Geophysical Research.
159. Miyahara, M., Noguchi, T., Matsumoto, T., Tomioka, N., Araki, T., Miyake, A., Igami, Y., Seto, Y., Yamaguchi, A. and Imae, N. (2026, in press) Pyrrhotite-driven early-stage terrestrial alteration in Ryugu grains. Nature Communications.
158. Okuchi, T. and Tomioka, N. (2026) In-situ analysis of ultrafast structural transformation in Mg2SiO4 induced by laser-driven shock compression. Journal of the Crystallographic Society of Japan, 68, 87–92. (in Japanese)
157. Pickersgill, A. E., Christou, E., Tremblay, M. M., Barfod, D. N., Rasmussen, C., Lee, M. R., Schmieder, M., Collins, G. S., Dymock, R., Gulick, S. P. S., Kring, D. A., Morgan, J. V., Osinski, G. R., Swindle, T., Tikoo, S., Wiman, A., the Expedition 364 Scientists (including Tomioka, N.), and Mark, D. F. (2026) A long-lived impact-generated hydrothermal system at the Chicxulub impact structure. Communications Earth & Environment, 7, 470.
156. Hagino, K., Takano, Y., Wakeman, K., Horiguchi, T., Tomioka, N., Ishida, K., Tsukakoshi, C., Nakamura, A., Turk-Kubo, K., Cabello, A. M., Riewluang, S., Yamaguchi, A., Kimoto, K., Wakita, M., Kawachi, M., Noël, M.-H., Ozaki, N., Nishimura, T., Adachi, M., Nagasaki, K., and Zehr, J. P. (2026) Taxonomic re-evaluation of the Braarudosphaera bigelowii species complex (Prymnesiophyceae). Phycologia, 1–18.
155. Shiraishi, F., Akimoto, T., Tomioka, N., Motai, S., and Takahashi, Y. (2026) Spherulite in the modern aragonitic stromatolite has a calcite core with exopolymers. Sedimentology, 73, 1421-1434.
154. Tokumaru, A., Kouduka, M., Suga, H., Fukuda, A., Kato, S., Takahashi, Y., Suzuki, K., Usui, A., Mukai, H., Oura, M., Tomioka, N., Ito, M., and Suzuki, Y. (2026) Co-enrichment of Ce and organics in microbe-like structures at the deep-sea ferromanganese crust surface. Philosophical Transactions A, 384, 20240432.
153. Nakahashi, T., Miyahara, M., Yamaguchi, A., Kobayashi, T., Yusa, H., Tomioka, N., Takaki, Y., Noguchi, T., Matsumoto, T., Miyake, A., Igami, Y., and Seto, Y. (2025) Experimental constraints on the shock history of CI chondrites and Ryugu grains. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 668, 119559.
152. Miyahara, M., Noguchi, T., Yamaguchi, A., Nakahashi, T., Takaki, Y., Matsumoto, T., Tomioka, N., Miyake, A., Igami, Y., and Seto, Y. (2025) Djerfisherite in Ryugu grain: A clue to localized reducing conditions and material mixing in the early solar system. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 60, 1666–1673.
151. Kukihara, K., Miyahara, M., Yamaguchi, A., Takahashi, Y., Takeichi, Y., Tomioka, N., and Ohtani, E. (2025) Location of NWA 6148 and NWA 10153 in the nakhlite body and their aqueous alteration. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 60, 596–615.

Books

4. Tomioka, N., Okuchi, T., and Noguchi, T. (2026) Planetary Minerals, Asakura Publishing, pp. 292. (in Japanese/in press)
3. Tomioka, N. and Miyahara, M. (2022) Shock metamorphism of Meteorites, in Encyclopaedia of High Pressure Science and Technology, Asakura Publishing, pp. 186–187. (in Japanese)
2. Tomioka, N. (2019) Shock metamorphism, in Encyclopaedia of Minerals and Gems, Asakura Publishing, pp. 266–268. (in Japanese)
1. Tomioka, N. and Seto, Y. (2014) Electron Microscopies, in Microbeam Analysis Handbook, Ed. JSPS Microbeam Analysis, 141 Committee, Ohmsha, Tokyo, pp. 570–576. (in Japanese)

Non-reviewed papers and others

11. Tomioka, N. (2026) Phase transformations and deformation of planetary materials under high pressures and high temperatures. Ganseki Koubutsu Kagaku (GKK), 55, gkk.260114.
10. Ito, M., Tomioka, N., Uesugi, M., Uesugi, K., Yamaguchi, A., Imae, N., Ohigashi, T., Shirai, N., Nakato, A., Yogata, K., Yada, T., Abe, M., Liu, M., Greenwood, R., Kimura, M., and Phase 2 Curation Kochi (2025) Phoenix "Hayabusa": A tale of the future (34) ― Exploring Asteroid Ryugu: Lessons learned, Challenges, and the Awakening of Phase2 Curation Kochi. Planetary People (Journal of the Japanese Society for Planetary Science), 34, 100–114.
9. Noguchi, T. and Ryugu "Sand" analysis team (including Tomioka, N.) (2024) Phoenix "Hayabusa": A tale of the future (32) — Scientific results from the Ryugu "Sand" analysis team. Planetary People (Journal of the Japanese Society for Planetary Science), 33, 182–189. (in Japanese)
8. Tomioka, N. (2024) Akimotoite, a new mineral discovered in a shocked meteorite. Ganseki Koubutsu Kagaku (GKK), 53, gkk.231002.
7. Tomioka, N. (2021) The fourth polymorph of Mg2SiO4: Poirierite in shocked meteorites. Elements, 17, 195.
6. Tomioka, N. (2021) Book Review: Natural Quasicrystals: The Solar System's Hidden Secrets. By Luca Bindi. American Mineralogist, 106, 1031–1032.
5. Sato, H., Goto, K., Yamaguchi, K. E., and Tomioka, N. (2019) Drilling the Chicxulub impact crater. Kagaku, 89, 174–179. (in Japanese)
4. Gulick, S., Morgan, J., Mellett, C. L., and the Expedition 364 Scientists (including Tomioka, N.) (2017) International Ocean Discovery Program, Expedition 364 Preliminary Report, Chicxulub: drilling the K-Pg impact crater. International Ocean Discovery Program, doi:10.14379/iodp.pr.364.2017.
3. Hagino, K., Onuma, R., Takano, Y., Tomioka, N., and Horiguchi, T. (2017) Progress of studies of cocolithophore taxon Braarudosphaera bigelowii. Kaiyo Monthly, 60, 115–124. (in Japanese)
2. Tomeoka, K., Ohnishi, I., Tomioka, N., Sugita, M., and Adachi, K. (2006) Test samples for the Hayabusa sample-return mission: Mineralogy and Petrology. JAXA Special Publication, The Second Open Competition for the Hayabusa Asteroidal Sample Preliminary Examination Team (HASPET), 84–101.
1. Tomioka, N. and Fujino, K. (1999) Ultrahigh-pressure minerals in meteorites: Discovery of natural silicate ilmenite and perovskite. Kagaku, 69, 22–27. (in Japanese)