Dr. Akira MURAKAMI Professor of Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
He received his BS (1978) from the Agricultural Engineering Department, his MS (1980) from the Civil Engineering Department, and his Dr. Agriculture (1991) from Kyoto University (KU), respectively. In 1982, he became an assistant professor in the Agricultural Engineering Department of KU, and was then promoted to an associate professor of KU in 1994. He moved to the Graduate School of Environmental Science of Okayama University with a promotion to full professor in 1999. After being at Okayama University for just 10 years, he moved back to KU in 2009 as a full professor. He has served as the Vice President of the Japanese Geotechnical Society (JGS), as a Board Member of the Japanese Society of Irrigation, Drainage and Rural Engineering (JSIDRE), and as a member of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG). He presently serves as a core member of TC103 of ISSMGE and as a member of the Multidisciplinary International Society on Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering. He had acted as the Secretary of TC34 of ISSMGE for two terms and delivered a general report on ‘Numerical Methods’ at 16ICSMGE held in Osaka. He is the recipient of the Japanese Society of Civil Engineering (JSCE) Paper Award (1996), the JSIDRE Sawada Prize (2007), the JGS Best Accomplishment Award (2008), the JSIDRE Best Paper Award (2010), the JGS Paper Award (2011, 2013) and is a Fellow of JSCE. He also presently acts as the Editor-in-Chief of the Soils and Foundations journal.
