Faculty

Nobuhito Mori Professor

PhD (Gifu University), Vice Director of DPRI

Nobuhito Mori is interested in air-sea interface physics, climate change, geophysical and environmental fluid mechanics, and nonlinear wave dynamics.

Room: E-201D

Tomoo Inoue Adjunct Professor

MBA (Leeds University)

Risk communication

Room: E-201D


Tomoya Shimura Associate Professor

PhD (Kyoto University)

Wave modeling

Room E-204D

Amin Chabchoub Associate Professor

PhD (University of Hamburg) / Hakubi Center

Nonlinear wave dynamics, wave-wave interactions

Room E-203D

Takuya Miyahsita Assistant Professor

PhD (Kyoto University)

Tsunami modeling, Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Assessment

Room E-210D

Zuorui Lyu Project Assistant Professor

PhD (Kyoto University)

Wave modeling, wave-storm surge coupling

Room E-210D

Taiga Kanehira Project Assistant Professor

PhD (Hiroshima University)

CFD, SPH, Rogue wave modeling

Room E-210D

Yu-Lin Tsai Researcher

PhD (National Central University of Taiwan)

Wave modeling, Nature-based solution using mangrove

Room E-210D

Yuji Araki Researcher

ME (Kansai University)

Storm surge inundation modeling

Room E-210D

Staff

Keiko Kanzaki

Secretary in general

Room E-201D


Yukari Tominaga

Secretary for JICA/JST SATREPS

Room E-201D

Historical members

Former Faculty Members

  • The late Iwagaki, Yuichi (1961 - 1968) Professor
    • Engineering Department, Kyoto University
    • Emeritus Professor, Kyoto University
    • Meijo University, retired
  • The late Tsuchiya, Yoshito (1961 - 1994)  Professor
    • Emeritus Professor, Kyoto University
    • Meijo University, retired
  • Kakinuma, Tadao (1961-1966)
    • Ehime University, retired
  • Inoue, Masao (1961 - 1968)
    • Kansai University, retired
  • Noda, Hideaki (1965 - 1970)
    • Tottori University, retired
  • Yamaguchi, Masataka (1969 - 1976)
    • Ehime University, retired
  • Nakamura, Shigehisa (1975 - 1981)
    • Shirahama observatory, DPRI, retired
  • Kawata, Yoshiaki (1976 - 1992) Professor
    • Emeritus Professor, Kyoto University
    • Kansai University
  • Yasuda, Takashi (1975 - 1977) Assistant Professor
    • Gifu University
    • Aichi Institute of Technology (President)
  • Yamashita, Takao (1977 - 1996) Associate Professor
    • Hiroshima University, retired
  • Shibano, Teruo (1981 - 1986) Assistant Professor
    • Fukui Institute of Technology, retired
  • Yoshioka, Hiroshi (1982 - 2004) Assistant Professor
    • Aichi Prefectural University, retired
  • Takayama, Tomotsuka (1995 - 2007) Professor
    • Emeritus Professor, Kyoto University
    • CDIT
  • Hajime Mase (1995-2017) Associate Professor (1995-2007), Professor (2007-2017)
    • Emeritus Professor, Kyoto University
    • Toa Construction Co. Ltd and other companies.
  • Tomohiro Yasuda (2004-2016) Assistant Professor
    • Kansai University
  • Nobuhito Mori (2008-present)  Associate Professor (2008-2018), Professor (2018-)
  • Sota Nakajo (2010-2012) Project Assistant Professor
    • Kumamoto University
    • Osaka City University
  • Yoko Shibutani (2013-2014) Project Assistant Professor
    • Tottori University
  • Adrean Webb (2018-2022) Project Assistant Professor/Project Associate Professor (2020-2022)
  • Che-Wei Chang (2018-2020) Project Assistant Professor
    • Assistant Professor, DPRI, Kyoto University (2018-2023)
    • Assistant Professor, University of Rhode Island, USA (2023-present)
  • Takuya Miyashita (2020-present)  Assistant Professor
  • Tomoya Shimura (2020-present)  Associate Professor
  • Amin Chabchoub (2021-present) Project Associate Professor
  • Tungcheng Ho (2022-2023) Project Assistant Professor
    • RIKEN

Former Researchers

  • Marc Kjerland (2015-2017) Project Researcher
    • The University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Josko Troselj (2017-2019) Project Researcher
    • Hiroshima University
  • Bahareh Kamranzad (2017-2018) JSPS Researcher
    • GAIS, Kyoto University
  • Tungcheng Ho (2019-present) JSPS Researcher
  • Masaya Toyoda (2020-2021) JSPS Researcher
    • Toyohashi Institute of Technology