BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH ? Masayoshi Nakashima (as of June 2007)

l         Professor, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, JAPAN

l         Director, E-Defense, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention

Areas of Research

l         Seismic Analysis and Design of Steel Building Structures

l         Development of Hybrid Testing Techniques

l         Seismic Analysis and Design of Base-Isolation and Passive Damping Systems

Selected Professional Activities

l         Vice President, The Architectural Institute of Japan (06/07 ? 05/09)

l         Editor, Journal of Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Wiley (01/05 ? present)

l         Chair, Review Committee of Architecture and Building Engineering Program of Japan Accreditation Board for Engineering Education (04/02? present)

l         Chair, Committee on Steel Structures, The Architectural Institute of Japan (04/05 ? present)

l         Visiting Professor, ROSE School, Pavia University, Italy (04/01 ? present)

l         Auditor, The Architectural Institute of Japan (02/03 ? 03/04)

l         Chair, Review Committee of Journal of Steel Construction, The Japan Society of Steel Construction, (04/00 ? 03/02)

l         Reviewer, Peer Review Panel for Base-Isolated Building Structures, The Building Center of Japan (04/96 ? present)

National and International Awards

l         The Honor for Notable Contribution to Science and Technology in 2006, The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, 2006

l         The Japan Society of Steel Construction Prize (Best Technical Paper Award), awarded by the Japan Society of Steel Construction, Japan, 2004

l         The Japan Society of Steel Construction Prize (Best Technical Paper Award), awarded by the Japan Society of Steel Construction, Japan, 2000

l         The Moisseiff Award, awarded by the American Society of Civil Engineers, U.S.A., 2000

l         The Japan Society of Steel Construction Prize (Best Technical Paper Award), awarded by the Japan Society of Steel Construction, Japan, 1999

l         The Architectural Institute of Japan Prize (Best Technical Paper Award), awarded by the Architectural Institute of Japan,