Overview
Dr. Anawat Suppasri has about 20 years’ experience of all perspectives of tsunami disaster related research and one of the world`s leader in publications related to tsunami research. After the 2011 Tohoku tsunami, he accompanied many of practitioners and researchers from both Japan and overseas to the tsunami affected areas. His publications are highly cited and received citation awards from Coastal Engineering Journal in 2017 and 2019. His research publications also received awards from Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) in 2011 and 2014, Japan Foundation of Ocean Engineering in 2011 and Japan Society for Natural Disaster Science in 2013. He is an editorial board member of Geoscience Letters, Coastal Engineering Journal and former board member of International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. His supervised students also received awards from international conferences such as poster awards from the World Bosai Forum 2019, AOGS 2022 and JSCE in 2023. His international contribution to UN related agencies such as UNDP and UNDRR was highly recognized and awarded by the former Japanese prime minister Yasuhiro Nakasone in 2018 and the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) The Young Scientists’ Award in 2022. He was selected as distinguished researcher of Tohoku University since 2022. He became the first ASEAN person who got elected as section president of Asia and Oceania Geosciences Society. He is currently leading and co-leading several international research projects on tsunamis, coastal disasters and disaster mitigation funded by the jointly funded Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development (SATREPS) project by Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), other projects by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and projects funded by other international insurance companies and consultant companies.
Education
Ph.D. Tsunami Engineering
Tohoku University, Japan, 2010
M.Eng. Water Engineering and Management
Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand, 2007
B.Eng. Civil Engineering
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, 2005
Expertise
Strategic & Risk Management
Publications
2014
Anawat Suppasri, Abdul Muhari, Tsuyoshi Futami, Fumihiko Imamura, Nobuo Shuto
Loss functions for small marine vessels based on survey data and numerical simulation of the 2011 Great East Japan tsunami Journal Article
In: Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering, vol. 140, no. 5, 2014, (Cited by: 31; All Open Access, Hybrid Gold Open Access).
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2013
Anawat Suppasri, Shunichi Koshimura, Fumihiko Imamura, Anat Ruangrassamee, Piyawat Foytong
A review of tsunami damage assessment methods and building performance in Thailand Journal Article
In: Journal of Earthquake and Tsunami, vol. 7, no. 5, 2013, (Cited by: 9).
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Anawat Suppasri, Erick Mas, Ingrid Charvet, Rashmin Gunasekera, Kentaro Imai, Yo Fukutani, Yoshi Abe, Fumihiko Imamura
Building damage characteristics based on surveyed data and fragility curves of the 2011 Great East Japan tsunami Journal Article
In: Natural Hazards, vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 319 – 341, 2013, (Cited by: 285; All Open Access, Hybrid Gold Open Access).
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Anawat Suppasri, Fumihiko Imamura, Shunichi Koshimura
Tsunami hazard and building damage assessment in Thailand using numerical model and fragility curves Journal Article
In: Journal of Earthquake and Tsunami, vol. 7, no. 5, 2013, (Cited by: 4).
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Anawat Suppasri, Nobuo Shuto, Fumihiko Imamura, Shunichi Koshimura, Erick Mas, Ahmet Cevdet Yalciner
In: Pure and Applied Geophysics, vol. 170, no. 6-8, pp. 993 – 1018, 2013, (Cited by: 235; All Open Access, Green Open Access, Hybrid Gold Open Access).
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2012
Anawat Suppasri, Tsuyoshi Futami, Shigeko Tabuchi, Fumihiko Imamura
Mapping of historical tsunamis in the Indian and Southwest Pacific Oceans Journal Article
In: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 62 – 71, 2012, (Cited by: 20).
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Anawat Suppasri, Fumihiko Imamura, Shunichi Koshimura
Tsunami hazard and casualty estimation in a coastal area that neighbors the Indian Ocean and South China Sea Journal Article
In: Journal of Earthquake and Tsunami, vol. 6, no. 2, 2012, (Cited by: 28).
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Anawat Suppasri, Erick Mas, Shunichi Koshimura, Kentaro Imai, Kenji Harada, Fumihiko Imamura
Developing tsunami fragility curves from the surveyed data of the 2011 great east Japan tsunami in Sendai and Ishinomaki plains Journal Article
In: Coastal Engineering Journal, vol. 54, no. 1, 2012, (Cited by: 101).
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Anawat Suppasri, Fumihiko Imamura, Shunichi Koshimura
Probabilistic tsunami hazard analysis and risk to coastal populations in Thailand Journal Article
In: Journal of Earthquake and Tsunami, vol. 6, no. 2, 2012, (Cited by: 19).
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Anawat Suppasri, Shunichi Koshimura, Kentaro Imai, Erick Mas, Hideomi Gokon, Abdul Muhari, Fumihiko Imamura
Damage characteristic and field survey of the 2011 great east Japan tsunami in miyagi prefecture Journal Article
In: Coastal Engineering Journal, vol. 54, no. 1, 2012, (Cited by: 139).
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