Expert’s Eyes

　A new era for disaster prevention and disaster mitigation is about to begin in Japan. We are standing at the entrance of a new era where the technologies and services of various fields that brought economic wealth to Japan will be applied to disaster prevention and disaster mitigation, and the “fields which are not specialized in disaster prevention” will play the leading role in the fields of disaster prevention and disaster mitigation. My laboratory tries to find lessons from past disasters, and aim for a society where all people can enjoy the benefits of “safe and secure” technology in a sustainable way.

Remarkable File

・Spent school days in an interdisciplinary environment with a professor (civil engineering), an associate professor (social psychology), and an assistant (seismology). ・In the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Memorial Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution, served as the project leader of the “Tonankai and Nankai Earthquake Countermeasure Project” in which more than 80 stakeholders including local government officials, lifeline companies, and private companies participated, and was engaged in collaborative research with researchers from different fields. ・When the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred, was stationed in the Miyagi prefectural government office as a researcher of the Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution, and was engaged in the project to support the Central Government's On-site Disaster Management Headquarters, etc. ・Served as an assistant professor for five years at the Kyoto University Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, with faculty members having various backgrounds such as science and engineering, agriculture, law, sociology, economics, and humanities. ・Conducted disaster investigation 27 times in Japan and overseas, including Sri Lanka (Tsunami), the Philippines (Landslide), Indonesia (Tsunami), China (Earthquake), America (Tsunami), Chile (Tsunami), Australia (Tsunami), Taiwan (Earthquake), etc.

Brief Personal History

Mar. 2003:
Graduated from the Department of Global Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University Mar. 2005:
Completed the Master’s Course in Urban Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University (Master of Engineering) Mar. 2008:
Completed the Doctoral Course in Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University (Ph. D. in Informatics) Apr. 2008:
Researcher of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Memorial Association, Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution (DRI) Apr. 2009:
Senior researcher of the above Institution Apr. 2012:
Assistant Professor of the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University Oct. 2012:
Visiting researcher of the U.S. Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (PMEL, NOAA,) Jan. 2015:
Visiting researcher of the University of Hawaii Apr. 2017:
Associate Professor of the Faculty of Societal Safety Sciences, Kansai University Apr. 2022:
Professor of the Faculty of Societal Safety Sciences, Kansai University