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
2025
Hidetoshi Masuda, Daisuke Sugawara, An-Chi Cheng, Anawat Suppasri, Fumihiko Imamura
A surrogate-assisted nonlinear inversion of tsunami waveform and trace height: application to the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake in Japan Journal Article
In: Earth, Planets and Space, vol. 77, no. 1, 2025, (Cited by: 2; All Open Access, Gold Open Access, Green Open Access).
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Daisuke Sasaki, Anawat Suppasri, Fumihiko Imamura
Japanese foreign aid to fisheries in response to disaster: The case of the 2022 Tonga volcanic eruption and transoceanic tsunami Journal Article
In: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, vol. 118, 2025, (Cited by: 0; All Open Access, Hybrid Gold Open Access).
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Rebekah Yore, Joanna Faure Walker, Anawat Suppasri
Transitions to recovery: The shelter and housing journey following disaster Journal Article
In: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, vol. 128, 2025, (Cited by: 4; All Open Access, Hybrid Gold Open Access).
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Alison Raby, Antonios Pomonis, Anawat Suppasri, Keith Adams, Nurullah Açikgőz, Marco Baiguera, Yunita Idris, Panon Latcharote, Francesca Marafini, David McGovern, Ella Meilianda, Harsh Mistry, Sukiman Nurdin, Eyitayo Opabola, Teraphan Ornthammarath, Nattapon Trumikaborworn, Tiziana Rossetto
Approaches to post-tsunami coastal reconstruction: Comparisons across Indonesia, Thailand, and Japan Journal Article
In: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, vol. 117, 2025, (Cited by: 8; All Open Access, Green Open Access, Hybrid Gold Open Access).
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Muhammad Rizki Purnama, Anawat Suppasri, Kwanchai Pakoksung, Fumihiko Imamura, Mohammad Farid, Mohammad Bagus Adityawan
Improving Indonesia’s tsunami early warning: Part I: Developing synthetic tsunami scenarios and initial deployment Journal Article
In: Ocean Engineering, vol. 316, 2025, (Cited by: 6; All Open Access, Hybrid Gold Open Access).
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Hayley Leggett, Miwako Kitamura, Anawat Suppasri, Fumihiko Imamura, Tiziana Rossetto
Understanding community attitudes and responses to tsunami mitigation infrastructure and DRR methods in Kesennuma, Japan Journal Article
In: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, vol. 130, 2025, (Cited by: 1; All Open Access, Hybrid Gold Open Access).
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Hasune Numazawa, Shuichi Kure, Sakuya Nakao, Anawat Suppasri, Daisuke Sugawara, Shuji Seto, Yoshinori Shigihara
In: Coastal Engineering Journal, vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 583 – 594, 2025, (Cited by: 0; All Open Access, Hybrid Gold Open Access).
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Ioanna Triantafyllou, Fumihiko Imamura, Anawat Suppasri
Empirical Relationships Between Earthquake and Tsunami Magnitudes in Japan as Tsunami Hazard Descriptors Journal Article
In: Pure and Applied Geophysics, vol. 182, no. 9, pp. 3373 – 3395, 2025, (Cited by: 0).
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David N. Nguyen, Nori Tarui, Daisuke Sasaki, Haruka Tsukuda, Anawat Suppasri, Fumihiko Imamura
Adapting to health crisis at Japanese hot springs: Understanding visitor travel intention and perceptions of countermeasures Journal Article
In: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, vol. 121, 2025, (Cited by: 0).
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Mohd Muhaimin Ridwan Wong, Nordila Ahmad, Anawat Suppasri, Syamsidik
In: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, vol. 130, 2025, (Cited by: 1).
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