Julia Mariko Jacoby is a historian of science with a special interest in environmental history. Her research focuses on the history of modern Japan and is informed by methods of global history. Currently, she pursues a PhD project on Disaster Preparedness in Japan and Global Transfer of Knowledge 1890-1970 at the University of Freiburg and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. In this research, she looks at the impact of natural disasters on Japanese society and the implementation of strategies against them, thereby tracing the development of the modern disaster preparedness system in Japan and situating it in the context of global expert knowledge production and the circulation of disaster related knowledge.