Yoshinori Iwasaki
Position:Executive Director
Employer:Geo-Research Institute
Country:Japan
Background
Doctor of Sciences. Graduated from the Geotechnical University of Kyoto, Japan. University of Karaganda, Kazakhstan.
Teaching experience:
- 1980-2003 Lecturer at the Department of Geotechnical Engineering, Kobe University.
- 2003-2004 Visiting Professor, Department of Geotechnical Engineering, Tokushima University.
- 2006-2013 Visiting Professor, Department of World Cultural Heritage, Cyber University, Japan.
- 2005 - present, Visiting Professor, Eurasian National University, Astana, Kazakhstan.
Membership in professional/scientific organizations:
- 1985-2014 Member of the Committee for the Prevention of Natural Disasters (Earthquakes) in Osaka.
- 2003-2014 Member of the Arbitration Court, Osaka City District Court.
- 2009 - present, Chairman, ATC19, ISSMGE.
The Geo-Research Institute organizes the GeoData System geoinformation system, studies wells and analyzes the geotechnical and geological structure of the Osaka territory and surrounding areas (more than 60,000 wells). He also organizes the Seismic Net Work, which in 1994 installed a real-time seismic station before the 1995 Kobe earthquake. He is also engaged in numerical modeling of the movement of the Earth's surface along a fault for nuclear power plants.