About
Masashi is a Lecturer at School of Ocean and Earth Science at University of Southampton. His work investigates the risk of coastal natural hazards like tsunamis or storm surges based on field surveys, laboratory experiments, and numerical simulations. He is also interested in revealing past coastal natural hazards using geological records like tsunami or storm deposits. Before joining University of Southampton, he was a Research Fellow at Earth Observatory of Singapore at Nanyang Technological University. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Tohoku University in 2019.
Research
Research groups
Research interests
- Modelling coastal process
- Investigating future and past coastal natural hazards
- Coral reefs
Publications
Biography
Sep 2024 - present, Lecturer. University of Southampton, UK
Feb 2022 - Sep 2024, Research Fellow. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Apr 2019 – Jan 2022, Assistant Professor. Chuo University, Japan
Apr 2016 - Mar 2019, PhD (Civil Engineering). Tohoku University, Japan
Apr 2014 – Mar 2016, MEng (Civil Engineering). Tohoku University, Japan
Apr 2010 – Mar 2014, BEng (Engineering). Tohoku University, Japan