About

Satoru Oishi, Dr. of Engineering is a professor of Research Center for Urban Safety and Security, KOBE University. He is also a Team Leader of Computational Disaster Mitigation and Reduction Research Team, RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) in RIKEN. Satoru OISHI conducted disaster related research for more than 25 years. He graduated from Graduate school of Engineering, Kyoto University. During 1993 to 1999, he was a research associate of Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University. During 2000 to 2009, he was an associate professor in University of Yamanashi studying river engineering and sabo engineering. He also conducted many field study abroad under project of CREST. From 2009 to present, he is a professor in Kobe university. He mainly focuses on application of remote sensing technique to disaster prevention. As a team leader of RIKEN R-CCS, he is working for promoting high performance computing simulation of disaster including earthquake, tsunami and weather related disaster.

Career Type:

Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

Universities and Academia

Expertise Fields/Interests:

Social infrastructure (civil Engineering, architecture, disaster prevention) / Hydroengineering；Natural sciences / Atmospheric and hydrospheric science

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