The striking polymorphic diversity of a single simple molecule is what first drew me to ice research. My master and PhD research have centered on the exploration of ice polymorphs, with a particular focus on hydrogen-ordered and metastable phases. Central to this work has been understanding how thermodynamically predicted phase transitions manifest in experiment and in theoretical calculations, and how they can be detected. More recently, my interests have extended to the high-pressure ices likely found deep within icy moons.

My interests extend beyond ice to molecular crystals more broadly. Determining crystal structures under high pressure remains demanding even with modern X-ray and neutron diffraction — limited data often call for careful experimental design and creative analytical approaches. A growing focus of mine is measurement efficiency and automation. By building automated workflows in the laboratory and at KEK-PF BL-18C, I am working to acquire richer datasets that open the door to harder problems: temperature–pressure path dependence, metastable phase discovery, and structure determination under extreme conditions.