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I received a MSc in Applied Mathematics / Mechanical Engineering from the University of Bremen (Germany) and my PhD from Hamburg University of Technology (Germany). I previously worked as Associate Professor in Environmental Fluid Mechanics at the School of Civil Engineering of the University of Sydney (Australia) and Assistant Professor of Hydrodynamics at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Aalto University (Finland). Prior these faculty appointments, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher and Research Scientist at Imperial College London (UK), Swinburne University of Technology (Australia) and The University of Tokyo (Japan). My areas of expertise and research interests are ocean extreme waves, nonlinear dynamics and physical oceanography. My research at Kyoto University will be focusing on improving understanding and prediction of extreme wave events in the ocean including offshore and coastal areas. New mathematical water wave models will be developed and tested numerically and experimentally in advanced water wave facilities.