Takashi OGUCHI
(Japan)
Vice President – Communication and outreach
2026-2030

Takashi Oguchi is a professor at the Center for Spatial Information Science, the University of Tokyo, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Tokyo and broadened his experience at the University of Arizona, Colorado State University, and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UK). He was also an adjunct faculty of the University of Memphis, USA. He has participated in research projects on fluvial/hillslope geomorphology, geomorphometry, geoarchaeology, water quality, earthquake hazards, spatial databases, and geographical education. He has researched various foreign countries and regions such as Bangladesh, China, Italy, Korea, Oman, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Syria, Taiwan, and the UK. He has authored and co-authored more than 140 peer-reviewed articles and 30 book chapters. He gave some 40 plenary/invited talks at international conferences on geography and geosciences. He was one of the editors-in-chief of the journal Geomorphology (Elsevier) from 2003 to 2019 and is/was on the editorial boards of several other international journals such as Catena (Elsevier) and Remote Sensing (MDPI). He is currently a President of the Japan Geoscience Union. He was the Chair of the Hazard and Risk Commission of the International Geographical Union and President of the Japanese Geomorphological Union, the Geographical Association of Japan, and the GIS Association of Japan.
Contact:
Prof. Takashi Oguchi
Center for Spatial Information Science
University of Tokyo
JAPAN
Email address: oguchi<at>csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Website: https://researchmap.jp/read0007832?lang=en
