Risk Assessment Department

• Earthquake Disaster Risk Assessment (SC, Planetology )
  • Professor: Shoichi Yoshioka, Dr. of Sc.
  • Associate Professor: Hitoshi Hirose, Dr. of Sc.
  • Academic Research Fellow: Nobuaki Suenaga
  • Lecturer/Asst.Professor:Kazuki Miyazaki

• Geoenvironmental Risk Assessment(E, Civil)
  • Professor: Shinya Tachibana, Dr. of Eng. , Dr. of Eng. (RCUSS Vice-Director, 2025/4/1-)
  • Associate Professor: Yusuke Takayama Dr. of Eng.

Risk Management Department

• Infrastructure Management(E, Civil )
  • Professor: Takashi Nagao, Dr. of Eng.
  • Associate Professor: Kunitaro Hashimoto Dr. of Eng.

• Urban Safety Management (E, Architecture)
  • Professor: Kondo Tamiyo

• Industrial & Business Risk Management
  • Junichi Nakajima(Visiting Professor)
  • Yukio Tamari (Visiting Professor)
  • Ikeda Makoto (Visiting Associate Professor)
  • POTUTAN GERALD EJEM (Visiting Associate　Professor)
  • Yamaguchi　Naoki (Visiting Researcher)

Risk Communication Department

• Communicative Informatics(Sl, Information S)
  • Professor: Tetsuya Takiguchi, Dr. of Eng. 　(RCUSS Director, 2022/4/1-)

• Uncertainty Analysis and Risk Communication(E, Civil)
  • Professor: Satoru Oishi, Dr. of Eng.
  • Professor (Special Appointment): Yoshiyuki Kajikawa, PhD* (* responsible for Computational Climate Science)
  • Visiting Researcher (Asst. Prof.) Ryuji Yoshida, PhD
    Visiting Researcher (Asst. Prof.)Tsuyoshi Yamaura, PhD
  • (Integrated Research Center of KOBE UNIVERSITY)

• Infectious Diseases and Risk Communication(M)
  • Professor: Kentaro Iwata, MD, PhD, MSc
  • Associate Professor: Goh Ohji, MD, PhD, D.T.M. & H.

Cooperative Division

Medicine and Health Science

• Disaster Emergency Medicine (Graduate School of Medicine)
  • Professor: Joji Kotani
  • Associate Professor: Isamu Yamada

• Health Science for Disaster Reduction (Graduate School of Health Sciences)
  • Professor: Hisako Izumi
  • Associate Professor: Sayaka Kotera

• Disaster Mental Health

Humanities and Sociology

• Humanities for Disaster Reduction
  • Professor:Kouji Matsuoka (Graduate School of Human Development and Environment

• Social Systems for Disaster Reduction
  • Professor: Aiko Sakurai (Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, GSICS)

• Disaster Documents Studies and Local Historical Documents Studies Research Group (Graduate School of Humanities)
  • Professor: Hiroshi Okumura
  • Associate Professor: Keita Yoshikawa

International Relationship

• International Disaster Risk Reduction Management(JICA Visiting Faculties)
  • Visiting Researcher (Professor): Ken Imai
  • Professor: Kondo Tamiyo (Professor, Urban Safety Management)

• Asia Disaster Risk Reduction Management (ADRC Visiting Faculties)
  • Visiting Researcher (Professor): Koji Suzuki
  • Aiko Sakurai (Professor, Social Systems for Disaster Reduction)

Next-generation Disaster Mitigation Studies

• Disaster Economics Evaluation
  • Professor Takashi Kamihigashi (Center for Computational Social Science, CCSS)

• Digital Twins for Disaster Prevention
  • Hidesada Kanaji (Visiting Professor)
  • Professor Satoru Oishi (Uncertainty Analysis and Risk Communication)

• Administrative Open Data
  • Professor Narufumi Kadomatsu (Graduate School of Law)

Note:The underlined positions belong to RCUSS. The others are Cooperating Faculties