Education

2013-2016 Tokyo Institute of Technology, Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Sciences

2007-2010 The University of Tokyo, M.S. in Earth and Planetary Science

2003-2007 Kobe University, B.S. in Earth and Planetary Sciences

 

Employment

2022-present Research Associate, International Center for Isotope Effects Research

2019-2021 Researcher, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

2017-2019 Technical assistant, Earth Life Science Institute

2016-2017 Postdoctoral researcher, Tokyo Institute of Technology

2010-2012 IT Engineer, Japanese IT company

 

Research

My research focuses on sulfur isotope geochemistry including 1) Elucidating sulfur isotope fractionation mechanism of microbial sulfate reduction, 2) Reconstruction of paleo-oceanic environment using sulfur isotope and XAFS analyses.

Courses taught

2013-2016 Teaching assistant, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Awards and honors

n.a.

 

Invited Presentations or Testimony

Fumihiro Matsuura, Ryoichi Nakada, Yusuke Sawaki, Yuichiro Ueno, Masafumi Saitoh, Iori Kajitani, Tomohiro Usui: The micro-scale speciation analyses of sulfur in the Ediacaran limestones: Implications for diagenetic mobilization of sulfur species, JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting, 2021

Fumihiro Matsuura, Yusuke Sawaki, Tsuyoshi Komiya, Takayuki Ushikubo, Kenji Shimizu, Yuichiro Ueno: Oxygen, not sulfate, as the driver of the Ediacaran Shuram excursion, JpGU2022

 

Social Activities 

Local Organizing Committee, 64th Annual Meeting of Geochemical Society of Japan (2017 Tokyo)

 

Publication

1. Matsu'ura, F., Sunamura, M., Ueno, Y., & Urabe, T. Influence of cell's growth phase on the sulfur isotopic fractionation during in vitro microbial sulfate reduction. Chemical Geology, 431, 1-9, (2016).

 

2. Matsu'ura, F., Nakada, R., Usui, T., Sawaki, Y., Ueno, Y., Kajitani, I., & Saitoh, M, Spatial distribution and speciation of sulfur in Ediacaran limestones with μ-XRF imaging and XANES spectroscopy: Implications for diagenetic mobilization of sulfur species. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 306, 20-43. (2021)

 

3. Matsu'ura, F., Makita, H., Takai, K., Nakagawa, M., & Ueno, Y. Large sulfur isotope fractionation during abiotic consumption of hydrogen sulfide after cessation of bacterial growth in batch culture experiments of sulfate reducing bacteria. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 624, 118446, (2023).

 

4. Ueno, Y., Aoyama, S., Endo, Y., Matsu'ura, F., & Foriel, J. Rapid quadruple sulfur isotope analysis at the sub-micromole level by a flash heating with CoF 3. Chemical Geology, 419, 29-35, (2015).

 

5. Saitoh, M., Ueno, Y., Matsu'ura, F., Kawamura, T., Isozaki, Y., Yao, J., Ji, Z. & Yoshida, N. Multiple sulfur isotope records at the end-Guadalupian (Permian) at Chaotian, China: implications for a role of bioturbation in the Phanerozoic sulfur cycle. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 135, 70-79, (2017).

 

6. Shimizu, K., Ushikubo, T., Murai, T., Matsu’ura, F., & Ueno, Y. In situ analyses of hydrogen and sulfur isotope ratios in basaltic glass using SIMS. Geochemical Journal, 53, 195-207, (2019).

 

7. Kubota, Y., Matsu'ura, F., Shimizu, K., Ishikawa, A., & Ueno, Y. Sulfur in Archean komatiite implies early subduction of oceanic lithosphere. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 598, 117826, (2022).  

 

8. Kajitani, I., Koike, M., Nakada, R., Tanabe, G., Usui, T., Matsu'ura, F., Fukushi, K., & Yokoyama, T. Identification of carbonate-associated sulfate (CAS) in a Noachian Martian meteorite Allan Hills 84001. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 620, 118345, (2023).