Shunichi Koshimura

Dr Koshimura is a Professor at International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDes), Tohoku University. He carries out his research specifically on identifying natural disaster impact. His main focus is on developing a real-time tsunami inundation forecasting system with High Performance Computing Infrastructure (HPCI) and estimating social impacts of tsunami inundation by integrating numerical modelling, earth observation and geo-informatics. Dr Koshimura is a Co-Founder and CTO of RTi-cast, a university-born tech-startup to offer real-time tsunami inundation forecast services to government organizations, including emergency operations center, and commercial clients.

Dr Shunichi Koshimura received a Ph.D. degree from the Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University in 2000. After graduating Tohoku University, he started his career as a JSPS research fellow in Earthquake Research Institute, the University of Tokyo, and a researcher in Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL), NOAA, USA. In 2005, He joined the Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University.

Shunichi is a member of GEO DRR Working Group, supporting subgroup 2 and he is involved in Tasks 2.4.