About the Research
Subsurface natural resources are crucial for sustaining industries and our lifes. It is technically challenging to accurately explore and successfully drill to exploit the resources over decades while ensuring profitability even though the exploration is an attracting activity, similar to treasure hunting. I am trying to overcome these challenges by using analog experiments and numerical simulations. For example, synthetic fields generated by analog experiments will enable the quantitative evaluation of the effectiveness of exploration techniques using statistical methods.
A Message from Professor
Problems posed in high schools would have exact answers and are expected to be solved in the most direct way. Research in universities begins with posing questions ourselves. We would exhaustively consider why we pose this question, how to define a sufficient answer to it, and how to reach that answer. While conducting research, we often find that the expected goal is not the real goal. We also encounter unexpected findings. At universities, you will experience an exploration of knowledge that begins with posing questions.
Profile
Associate Professor Mitsuo MATSUMOTO
He completed a doctoral program at Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Kyushu University. After being involved in geothermal exploration and development as a geothermal reservoir engineer at Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd., he transferred to Kyushu University. He was promoted to his current position in 2024.
