• Seita Emori

    Seita Emori
    Vice Director, Institute for Future Initiatives
    Professor, Institute for Future Initiatives
Biography

Seita Emori is a Professor at the Institute for Future Initiatives(IFI), the University of Tokyo (UTokyo).
He joined National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) as Researcher in 1997 after completing his doctorate in the University of Tokyo. He took an external assignment to conduct research using the Earth Simulator at Frontier Research System for Global Change in 2001 and returned to NIES as Senior Researcher in 2004. He has been working as Chief of Climate Risk Assessment Section, Center for Global Environmental Research, NIES, since 2006. His area of specialty is future projections and risk studies of climate change. He is a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 5th and 6th Assessment Report (AR5 and AR6).

Research Fields
  • Global warming
  • Climate change
  • Climate model