Daisuke Noto
Researcher at JAMSTEC (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology); lead author, with Hugo Ulloa and Hokkaido University collaborators, of a 2026 Nature Communications study using a laboratory glycerol-tank analog to model mantle convection inside tidally locked exoplanets (src-tidally-locked-exoplanet-habitability-2026-07). The study found stable, Earth-comparable heat transport that could support localized habitability, and stated plans to extend the experimental method to other planetary systems.