People
Naoki Sakai
- Professor, Risk and Resilience Engineering, University of Tsukuba
- Deputy Director, Water and Sediment Disaster Research Division, NIED
- Director, Large-Scale Rainfall Experiment Facility Research Promotion Office, NIED
- Visiting Professor, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN)
Trained in geophysics and geotechnical engineering (PhD, Nagaoka University of Technology). Works on rainfall-induced landslides, debris-flow initiation, static liquefaction and data-driven landslide risk, with long-standing collaborations in Malaysia, Taiwan, Norway and the United States.