Prof. Fumihiko Imamura finished his PhD study at Tohoku University, Japan in 1989. He was promoted to a full‐professor of Tohoku University in 2000 and now is a director of the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS) at Tohoku University since April 2014, and also is a professor of Tsunami Engineering. He is an expert on tsunami modeling for warning, mitigation planning and education/awareness. He has conducted several field surveys as leader for earthquakes and tsunamis damage investigation since the 1992 Nicaragua and Indonesia. And he is a secretary, international TIME-project (Tsunami Inundation Modeling Exchange)　supported by IOC and IUGG Tsunami commission. He is a member of Science Council of Japan, Science member of the Central Disaster Management Council in Japan, and was the president of Japan Society for Natural Disaster Science in 2008-2011. After the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, He was a member of study group of the reconstruction design council in response to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake at cabinet office, and the committee for technical investigation on Countermeasures for Earthquakes and Tsunamis of  the Central Disaster Management Council.

Professional Activities:

1. Tsunami engineering research field for disaster/risk reduction and mitigation
2. Disaster Science
3. Numerical modeling for fluid dynamics
4. Disaster mitigation culture including education and awareness
5. Coastal engineering for development and management