Tomohiro Tanaka is an associate professor at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University. He graduated from the master’s and doctoral courses of the Department of Civil and Earth Resources Engineering at Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Engineering and worked as a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) DC2 research fellow (April 2016), JSPS PD research fellow (October 2016) and the current position since March 2024. His research includes numerical modeling of flood inundation during heavy rainfall and its quantitative flood risk assessment and its expansion to nation-scale impact assessment of climate change on extreme floods across Japan and agent-based modeling of the socioeconomic behaviors of stakeholders under flood risk and climate change adaptation.