Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

Keiji Takemura received a PhD in Kyoto University related to geological science. Now he is the Professor of the Graduate School of Science of Kyoto University. He conducts research into stratigraphy, active tectonics, tephrochronology and geothermal sciences, and has published papers in the field of Quaternary sciences of active faults, stratigraphy and paleogeography, environmental changes from lake and bay sediments, geothermal geology, soil engineering, and geoarchaeology.