京都府立大学大学院 生命環境科学研究科 准教授。専門は建築史・都市史・領域史。著書に『絵はがきの別府』、共著に『戦後空間史』『危機と都市』など。現在は主に、紀伊半島の漁業集落をフィールドに調査研究を行っている。三尾では、地形・地質・気象と民家建築の関係、カナダ移民と民家建築の関係に特に注目して調査中。明治期から昭和40年頃までの宅地所有者とカナダ移民との関係についても検討し、個々の移民が三尾でどの宅地を所有していたか（どこに住んでいたか）を追跡するデータベースを2022年度に整備した。
Noriko Matsuda is Associate Professor, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University. She specializes in architectural history, urban history, and territorial history. Her major work includes the book “Beppu in the Picture Postcards,” and the following co-authored books: “Postwar-Space History” and “Along the Water: Urban Natural Crises between Italy and Japan”. Currently, she has conducted research mainly in the field of fishing villages in the Kii Peninsula. In Mio, her research focus has been on the relationship between topography, geology, and weather and the architecture of “minka” which refers to Japanese residential houses in particular attention to how Canadian emigration had impacts on the residential architecture in Mio. She and her lab members examined the correlation between residential landowners and their emigration experience from the Meiji period to around 1965 to create a database to track which residential land each individual emigrant owned (and where they lived) in Mio as part her contribution for the year 2022.