Dr. Hiroshi Isoda received his Ph.D in Faculty of Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1995. From 1990 to 1995, he was a Faculty and an Assistant Professor in Architecture and Civil Engineering at Shinshu University where he taught in the area of Structural Engineering. He moved to the Building Research Institute (BRI), National Institute of Japan, as a Senior Researcher in 1995, where he involved in the revision of Japanese Building Standard Law. In 2000-2001, he was also a Visiting Researcher in the Department of Structural Engineering at the University of California in San Diego, where he analyzed the seismic response of four index wood buildings within the FEMA-funded CUREE-Caltech Woodframe Project. In 2006, He was a Visiting Researcher in the Department of Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo where he involved in the shaking table tests of the NEESWood Project. He moved to the Shinshu University as an Associate Professor in 2006 and was elevated to a Professor in 2011. He moved to the Kyoto University in 2013. He is now a Professor in Laboratory of Timber Science and Engineering at Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere of Kyoto University.