To Catch a Rising Bubble

― My Journey in Japan So Far ―

Abstract

  This work is a personal reflection on my decade of living and working in Japan, which spanned from the early days of measuring second sound in superfluid helium using particle image velocimetry as a visiting PhD student at the University of Tsukuba, to the period of being hired as a postdoc and later as a faculty member at Kyushu University. Since 2020, in an almost poetic coincidence, I have returned to the University of Tsukuba to start my own lab, where I continue my investigation into the many unsolved problems in nucleate boiling heat transfer. Although it is not intended to be a guide on finding opportunities in Japan, I hope my experience would be of help to foreign researchers who are considering furthering their careers in the country.