Miki Yamamoto is an MSc student in geoinformatics at the University of Copenhagen with eight years of experience working in geospatial technology, disaster management, and forestry. She is a recipient of the Rotary Foundation Global Grant Scholarship in the environment focus. She plans to explore the potential of nature-based solutions for disaster risk reduction in vulnerable regions for her thesis.
She worked as a GIS engineer in Japan during 2017–2023, handling image processing and the damaged building assessment system. She lectured to more than 70 local governments, including 11 ordinance-designated cities, on how to reduce disaster risks through preparations in peacetime. As a disaster response, she was deployed on the ground during the Niigata storm in August 2022 and the Ishikawa earthquake in May 2023 to support implementing building damage assessments and publishing damage certificates.
She participated in the JICA volunteer program during 2014–2016 in forestry conservation in Malawi, a country grappling with severe deforestation. There, she conducted community surveys and forest inventory assessments and promoted briquettes using organic waste.
In her free time, she enjoys language exchange, picnics, and hiking.
