My name is Nobuaki Fuji, seismobassoonist, associate professor (HDR) and head of the seismology team at IPGP, UPC and junior member of the science outreach chair at IUF.

Curriculum Vitæ

I was born in Amagasaki, Hyōgo, on Friday, November 26th, 1982. In 1995, when I was 12 years old, I experienced the Kobe earthquake, shortly before failing the entrance exam of a private junior high school. However, instead of making me decide to become a seismologist, it only taught me that earthquake prediction is impossible, and that one should not simply believe the seismologists on TV: the media and the government had been emphasising the potential danger of only the “Big One” in the Tokyo region, as if there were no danger elsewhere, while it is natural to have catastrophic earthquakes whenever and wherever in Japan. Looking back, this reaction may have been naive, but it shaped me.

Me

Geodynamics and seismology: direct and inverse problems

I am a seismologist specialising in seismic imaging of the structure of the Earth and of other telluric bodies, and I develop theories and numerical methods to model and invert (geo)physical data, including seismograms and neutrino oscillograms.

What is essential is invisible. Imagining the history of the interiors of the Earth and planets from the extremely limited geophysical and geochemical database that we can acquire today is no easy gift. It requires endless, sometimes painful, back-and-forth between theory and data. To foster dialogue between disciplines, and to exchange and discuss quantitatively, I initiated with colleagues a one-week hackathon called CLEEDI. It is an interdisciplinary, intergenerational and biennial workshop held in the heart of Ariège, in the Pyrenees. There, we also encourage dialogue with the general public through science outreach events.

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PhiloGaïa Orchestra: composing classical music

I am a bassoonist and composer. I compose classical music inspired by geophysical images and videos, performed in interaction with them within the PhiloGaïa Orchestra project. The artistic representation of science does not necessarily require pedagogical explanations.