Amin Chabchoub received his PhD from Hamburg University of Technology, Germany, in 2013 and is currently Associate Professor at Kyoto University's Disaster Prevention Research Institute and at the University of Sydney's School of Civil Engineering. His areas of expertise and research interests include wave hydrodynamics, environmental fluid mechanics, nonlinear dynamics, natural hazards, and extreme events. Associate Professor Amin Chabchoub has published a variety of interdisciplinary articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings.