Senior Researchers

Profiles of Senior Researchers

Itsuki NAKABAYASHI

Present post: Professor, Graduate School of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University.
Academic background: Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo Metropolitan University.
Majors: Urban disaster reduction and recovery, urban planning

Yoshiteru MUROSAKI

Present post: President, National Research Institute of Fire and Disaster, National Fire Fighters’ Academy, Fire and Disaster Management Agency, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
Academic background: Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University.
Majors: Architecture, urban disaster reduction, large-scale evacuation science

Tatsuro KAI

Present post: Assistant Director/ Center Director, (Social Welfare Organization Saiseikai Imperial Gift Foundation, Inc.) Saiseikai Senri Hospital, Senri Critical Medical Center
Academic background: Hyogo College of Medicine
Major: Emergency Medicine, Disaster Medicine, International Health, and Traumatology

Fusao OKA

Present post: Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
Academic background: Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
Major: Geomechanics, Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Soil Liquefaction and Computational Geomechanics

Junji KIYONO

Present post: Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
Academic background: Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
Major: Earthquake Engineering and Disaster Prevention Engineering

Atsushi TANAKA

Present post: Professor and Director, Center for Integrated Disaster Information Research, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, University of Tokyo
Academic background: Graduate School of Sociology, Tokyo University
Major: Disaster Psychology and Group Behavior

Shigeo TATSUKI

Present post: Professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Sociology, Doshisha University
Academic background: Graduate School of Social Work, University of Toronto
Major: Sociology (family sociology, citizen society theory, disaster reduction sociology)

Dai NAKAGAWA

Present post: Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
Academic background: Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
Major: Urban and Regional Planning Studies and Transportation Planning

Haruo HAYASHI

Present post: Professor and Director of Research Center for Disaster Reduction Systems, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University.
Academic background: Graduate School of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Major: Social psychology (human behavior in times of disaster/disaster psychology)

Kiyoshi KOBAYASHI

Present post: Professor and Vice Dean, Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University
Academic background: Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
Major: Economic Analysis of Disaster Risk Management, and Planning and Management System