Shiro Kubota Editor

Shiro Kubota is a group leader in the Industrial Safety and Physical Risk Analysis Group at the Research Institute of Science for Safety and Sustainability (RISS), the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). He received his Doctor of Engineering from Kumamoto University in 1996 and became an assistant professor in the Department of Earth Resources Engineering at Kyushu University. He moved to AIST in 2003 and has served in his current position since 2016. He also became a visiting professor in the Department of Earth Resources Engineering at Kyushu University in 2020. His research interests focus on detonation physics, physical hazard analysis, numerical modeling, and application of explosions of high-energetic materials.