Invited Lecture:

Potential Natural Hazards in Kathmandu, Nepal: Lessons from Stratigraphic Analysis of the Pleistocene Succession in the Kathmandu Valley

Prof. Dr. Tetsuya Sakai is a professor in the Department of Earth Science at Shimane University, Japan. He specializes in sedimentary geology and has conducted field-based sedimentological studies on the Pleistocene succession of the Kathmandu Valley since 1999, aiming to reconstruct its climatic history and tectonic evolution. He currently serves as the Director of the Center for Natural Disaster Reduction Research and Education at Shimane University.