Yuichi Morishita is a Visiting Professor at Shizuoka University. He received his PhD in Geology from the University of Tokyo in 1987. He worked for the Geological Survey of Japan (GSJ) for many years before moving to Shizuoka University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, where he conducted experimental mineral diffusion studies. His research has focused on magmatic-hydrothermal ore deposits using multi-disciplinary approaches, including field observations (visiting more than 50 ore deposits) and oxygen and carbon isotope geochemistry and microanalysis. He was the leader of the Magma-Hydrothermal Research Group, the SIMS (Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry) laboratory and stable isotope laboratory of the GSJ. He served as the President of the Society of Resource Geology for two years.