Present position:

• National Subcommittee on Regulating Coastal Erosion in Thailand, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment
• Free-lance physical oceanographer

Education:

• 1967 B.Sc.(Hon.) (Physics) Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
• 1972 M.S.(Physical Oceanography) Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA, U.S.A.

Training:

• Study at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, for 2 Quarters in 1969-1970; and worked as a visiting scientist in 1976.
• Autumn Course on Physics of the Oceans and Atmosphere, at International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy,9 September - 5 December 1975.
• Training in Remote Sensing with Dr. S. Murai at University of Tokyo, for 45 days in Spring 1979 and one week in 1980, by JSPS fund.
• Shipboard Training on Geophysics in the Andaman Sea, 27 December - 18 January 1975, EURYDICE Expedition Leg V, under Prof. Dr. Joseph R. Curray, aboard the Thomas Washington vessel of Scripps Institution, by IOC fund.
• Orientation Course on Scientific Basis Required for Management of the Coastal Zone, 14 - 25 April 1986, the Netherlands by IOC/UNESCO and Geological Survey of the Netherlands funds.
• Shipboard Training on Geological and Sedimentological Mapping, Offshore of Hokkaido, 19 - 31 July 1982, aboard the Hakurei vessel, by CCOP and Geological Survey of Japan funds.
• Short Term Training on Marine Data Processing, 27 Mar. - 11 Apr. 1982, at Japan Oceanographic Data Center, by IOC and the Government of Japan/WESTPAC funds.
• Training Program on Remote Sensing and GIS for Coastal Zone Management, at GIS Application Center of Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, May 21-June 1, 2001. NASDA sponsor.
• Training Program on Potential and Use of Low Moderate Resolution Remote Sensing, 7-11 October 2002, AIT The School of Advanced Technology (SAT), GIS Application Center (GAC), . NASDA sponsor
• Tsunami mitigation in Japan by PARI fund in August 2006.
• On the job training on tsunami at NOAA/PMEL during 13-26 March 2005.
• On the job training on tsunami modelling with Professor Dr. Costas Synolakis (USC, ,LA,CA), in spring 2006 and 6 November to 9 December 2010.