Anna Matsukawa was born in 1984. After obtaining a doctoral degree from the Graduate School of Sociology at Doshisha University, she worked at the Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution and the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience before assuming her current position. Her expertise lies in criminal sociology and welfare disaster prevention studies. Before the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, she researched crime prevention through environmental criminology but shifted her focus to disaster studies after 3.11. Matsukawa's main research interests include crime prevention by residents, disaster preparedness for vulnerable individuals during disasters, and studies on evacuation shelters, primarily focusing on local communities and highly vulnerable populations.