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Scientist/Researcher/Academic

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Universities and Academia

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Prof. Tomoya Shibayama has been engaged in coastal disaster mitigation studies for more than 40 years, through the use of hydraulic laboratory experiments, field surveys and numerical simulations. He served as team leader of post-disaster survey teams for all major tsunami and storm surge events in the past fifteen years, including the Indian Ocean Tsunami (2004), the Tohoku Tsunami (2011) or the Storm Surge due to Typhoon Haiyan (2013), amongst others. In recent times he has delivered the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) "Tsunamis and Storm Surges: Introduction to Coastal Disasters" from Edx. Through this course, he teaches the most advanced knowledge regarding coastal disasters to students throughout the world. Formerly, he was the Editor-in-Chief of Coastal Engineering Journal (CEJ), the Chairman of Ocean Engineering Committee, JSCE and the President of Japan Federation of Ocean Engineering Societies. He is now serving as the President of Japan Association for Coastal Zone Studies. He was the recipient of Hamaguchi International Award for coastal disasters in 2019.

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