My name is Nobuaki Fuji, seismobassoonist, associate professor and head of the seismology team at IPGP, UPC and junior member of scientific mediation chair at IUF.
I was born in Hyogo, one Friday, November 26th, 1982 and I experienced the Kobe earthquake when I was 12 years old. However, instead of making me decide to become a seismologist, I just learned that the earthquake prediction is impossible and that the media and the government had been emphasising the potential danger of only the “big one” in Tokyo region but not elsewhere, while it is natural to have catastrophic earthquakes whenever and wherever in Japan.Curriculum Vitæ
Geodynamics and seismology: direct and inverse problems
I am a seismologist specialising in seismic imaging of the Earth’s structure and that of terrestrial bodies, and I develop theories and numerical methods to model and invert (geo)physical data, including seismograms and neutrino oscillograms.
Constraining the history of the Earth’s and planetary interiors from small data that humans can acquire as of today is a crazy dream. It requires going back and forth from theory to data and quantitative dialogues amongst various domains in science. In order to promote such scientific conversations not only among scientists but with the public at the same time, I initiated an interdisciplinary, intergenerational, biennial hackathon, CLEEDI, with my friends, over the course of a week in the heart of Ariège in Pyrenees.
PhiloGaïa Orchestra: composition of classical music out of geophysics
I am a bassoonist and composer. I compose classical music, inspired by images and videos in geophysics, played in interaction with the data on behalf of the PhiloGaïa Orchestra project. The artistic representarion of science does not necessarily need educational explications.