Basic Information

Faculty

• Faculty of Engineering

Email Address

• Email Address

  beppu.kazusa.8xkyoto-u.ac.jp

Academic Degree

• 20 Mar. 2019

  九州大学修士（物理学）
• 24 Mar. 2022

  九州大学博士（物理学）

Academic Resume (Undergraduate School/Majors)

• 九州大学, 理学部物理学科, 卒業

Research History

• From Oct. 2024, To Present

  Kyoto University, Graduate School of Engineering Department of Chemical Engineering, Assistant Professor
• From May 2022, To Sep. 2024

  Aalto University, Department of Applied Physics, Postdoctoral Researcher

ID,URL

• ORCID ID

  0009-0000-7939-0248

• J-Global ID

  202401011508044507

researchmap URL

• https://researchmap.jp/khrtqamjsb0406-1324

Research

Research Interests

• Fluid Mechanics
• Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics
• Ferrofluid
• Soft Matter
• Active Matter

Research Areas

• Natural sciences, Bio-, chemical, and soft-matter physics

Papers

• Geometry-induced dynamics of confined chiral active matter

  Archit Negi; Kazusa Beppu; Yusuke T. Maeda

  Physical Review Research, 27 Jun. 2023

  
• Geometric confinement guides topological defect pairings and emergent flow in nematic cell populations

  Ryo Ienaga; Kazusa Beppu; Yusuke T. Maeda

  Soft Matter, 2023

  
• Exploring order in active turbulence: Geometric rule and pairing order transition in confined bacterial vortices

  Kazusa Beppu; Yusuke T. Maeda

  Biophysics and Physicobiology, 2022

  
• Collective motion of epithelial cells along a wrinkled 3D-buckled hydrogel

  Kazuyuki Shigeta; Tatsuya Fukuyama; Riku Takahashi; Kazusa Beppu; Aya Tanaka; Yusuke T. Maeda

  RSC Advances, 2022

  
• Controlling Collective Motion of Kinesin-Driven Microtubules via Patterning of Topographic Landscapes

  Shunya Araki; Kazusa Beppu; Arif Md. Rashedul Kabir; Akira Kakugo; Yusuke T. Maeda

  Nano Letters, 07 Dec. 2021, Lead author

  
• Edge current and pairing order transition in chiral bacterial vortices

  Kazusa Beppu; Ziane Izri; Tasuku Sato; Yoko Yamanishi; Yutaka Sumino; Yusuke T. Maeda

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 24 Sep. 2021, Lead author

  
• Ordered Structure and Geometric Control of Active Matter in Dense Bacterial Suspensions

  Yusuke T. MAEDA; Kazusa BEPPU

  Seibutsu Butsuri, 2020

  
• Geometric Effect for Biological Reactors and Biological Fluids

  Kazusa Beppu; Ziane Izri; Yusuke T. Maeda; Ryota Sakamoto

  Bioengineering, 13 Dec. 2018, Lead author

  
• Geometry-driven collective ordering of bacterial vortices

  Kazusa Beppu; Ziane Izri; Jun Gohya; Kanta Eto; Masatoshi Ichikawa; Yusuke T. Maeda

  Soft Matter, 2017, Lead author

  
• Geometric frustration and pairing-order transition in confined bacterial vortices

  Kazusa Beppu; Kaito Matsuura; Yusuke T. Maeda

  Physical Review Research, 12 Aug. 2024, Lead author

  
• Magnetically controlled bacterial turbulence

  K. Beppu; J. V. I. Timonen

  Communications Physics, 04 Jul. 2024, Lead author, Corresponding author

  

Presentations

• Magnetically controllable bacterial turbulence

  Kazusa Beppu; Jaakko V.; I. Timonen

  APS March meeting 2024, 08 Mar. 2024

  

Awards

• 17 Oct. 2024

  第19回日本物理学会若手奨励賞
• 03 Feb. 2023

  第39回井上研究奨励賞（井上科学振興財団）