Dr. Katsu Goda

Biography

Katsu Goda is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment at Western University. His research focuses on catastrophic earthquake-related multi-hazard risk management from economic and societal viewpoints, addressing a broad and multidisciplinary range of topics within engineering seismology, earthquake engineering, tsunami engineering, financial risk analysis, and decision-making under uncertainty. He is engaged in probabilistic seismic hazard risk analysis, ground motion prediction models, strong motion simulation, performance-based earthquake engineering, and lifecycle cost analysis of buildings, with a specific interest in how decision makers' risk attitudes affect outcomes. His work evaluates the effectiveness of seismic risk mitigation techniques, such as tuned mass dampers and seismic isolation, and he contributes to seismic loss estimation for spatially distributed structures. Goda’s research also includes financial seismic risk analysis, tsunami hazard risk modeling, and multi-hazards risk assessment due to mega-thrust subduction earthquakes. He has contributed to numerous selected publications and is active in accepting student applications for research opportunities in geophysics focused on earthquake and tsunami hazard risk assessments.

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