Bio

Dr. Masahiro Kurata is an Associate Professor at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University, and currently serves as a Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University. He received his Master’s degrees from Kyoto University and the ROSE School at the University of Pavia, Italy, and earned his Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2009. He worked as a researcher at the University of Michigan and joined DPRI in 2011. Dr. Kurata is a founding member of Kyoto iMED (Informatics, Medicine, Engineering for Disaster), a multidisciplinary research group dedicated to enhancing the disaster resilience of medical facilities and regional healthcare systems. His research interests span structural steel, autonomous structural health monitoring in post-disaster scenarios, nonstructural component seismic evaluation, hospital resilience, and sustainable approaches to seismic retrofit. He has published over 95 peer-reviewed journal articles, including 66 in SCI-indexed journals, and currently serves on the editorial boards of Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Journal of Earthquake Engineering, and as an Associate Editor for the Japan Architectural Review.

Contact

  • Academic
    kurata.masahiro.5c@kyoto-u.ac.jp
    University - Faculty other teaching Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering Position: Visiting Associate Professor