Hi! I’m Wataru Iwashita.
Ph.D. student at Fluid Mechanics Group, Osaka University, Japan.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellow (DC1).

Previous affiliations

• Computational Mechanics of Building Materials, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Academic guest, October 2023 - January 2024)
• National Institute of Technology (NIT), Nagano College, Japan (April 2013 - March 2019)

My research interests

• Tribology
• Physics of friction
• Amontons–Coulomb friction law
• Water droplet on substrate

Academic society

• Japanese Society of Tribologists (JAST)
• The Physical Society of Japan (JPS)
• The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME)
• The Japan Society of Vacuum and Surface Science (JVSS)