Akira-Kawamura

Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan

Dr. Akira Kawamura is a Professor Emeritus at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the Graduate School of Urban Environmental Systems. He finished his Bachelor of Engineering degree at the Department of Environmental Civil Engineering in Kumamoto University, Japan in 1978. Meanwhile, he finished both his Master of Engineering and Doctor of Engineering degrees at the Department of Civil Engineering Hydraulics in Kyushu University, Japan in 1980 and 1985, respectively. Dr. Kawamura started as a Research Associate in Kyushu University in 1985 in which he would later serve as an Associate Professor from 1993 to 2004 in the same university. He then served as a Professor, from 2004 to 2021, and as a Professor Emeritus, from 2021 to the present, in Tokyo Metropolitan University. He was engaged in many professional activities which includes serving as Vice-President for the Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources from 2014 to 2016 and serving as Chairman for both the Committee on Global Environment and Editorial Committee on Annual Journal of Global Environment Research for the Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) from 2017 to 2019. Currently, since 2016, he is the Chairman for the Editorial Committee on Journal of Hydrological System for the Association for Rainwater Storage and Infiltration Technology. Focusing on hydrology and water resources engineering, his research contributions include 198 journal papers, in which 44 are Impact Factor (IF) papers, 11 book chapters, 125 international conference papers, 29 memoirs report papers, and 324 domestic conference papers. One of his lead authored IF paper focused on investigating the barriers to integrated flood risk management adaptation in Metro Manila, Philippines which was published in 2019.
 

 

 

 

Kenichiro-Kobayashi

Saitama University, Japan

Prof. Kenichiro Kobayashi received his B.Eng. from Waseda University, M.Eng. from the University of Tokyo, and PhDs from Stuttgart University Germany and Kyoto University. After working at Kobe University as an Associate Professor, on April 2024 he became full Professor at graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University. His main research topic has been the multiphase flow simulations in the subsurface, flood modellings, impact studies using climate/weather forecastings and high-performance computing. In Germany, he simulated the methane migration processes in the subsurface using two-phase (gas and liquid) and two-phase/three-component (gas and liquid phase, air, water and methane components) models. Likewise, he coupled an optimization model with the multiphase models and detected some optimized locations for the methane extractions. His current main research is high-performance computing on flood simulations. After moving to Saitama, he has been eager to make very high-resolution flood simulations on the Tokyo Metropolitan Area with the Radar rainfalls and a super-computer Fugaku. He is currently the chairperson of glocal climate change adaptation group of the committee on Hydroscience and Hydraulic Engineering at Japan Society for Civil Engineers (JSCE). He has been working for UNESCO, especially at South East Asia and Pacific Regions and served as the editor in Chief for Catalogue of Hydrologic Analysis. Also, he joined JST-JICA project at Ghana, Africa, then held international training course for the west African authority with World Bank. Through these activities, he received an international contribution award from JSCE.