Akira-Kawamura

Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan

 

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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.