Curriculum Vitæ

Personal details

  • Name : Fuji, Nobuaki

  • Date of birth : 26 November 1982

  • Nationality : Japanese (French naturalisation in progress)

  • Place of birth : Hyōgo, Japan

  • Current position :
    Associate professor (maître de conférences), Université Paris Cité
    Institut de physique du globe de Paris
    Junior member, Institut universitaire de France

  • Professional address :
    Office 328, Seismology team
    Université Paris Cité
    Institut de physique du globe de Paris (CNRS)
    1 rue Jussieu
    75238 Paris Cedex 05

  • Email :
    nobuaki_at_ipgp.fr

  • IPGP page :
    https://www.ipgp.fr/annuaire/nobuaki/

  • IUF page :
    https://www.iufrance.fr/les-membres-de-liuf/membre/2392-nobuaki-fuji.html

  • Supervision :
    5 postdocs
    14 PhD students (6 with an official agreement)
    24 interns

  • Publications :
    35 peer-reviewed papers
    13 peer-reviewed proceedings
    17 outreach articles
    h-index: 20

Positions and education

2022–2027

Junior member, Institut universitaire de France

2022

Habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR)

Université Paris Cité – Institut de physique du globe de Paris

  • Title :
    Small-data seismology — from a centimetre-scale rock to Mars
  • Defended on : 28 March 2022

Jury

  • Jean-Paul Montagner (President)
  • Éléonore Stutzmann (Internal reviewer)
  • Frederik Simons (Princeton University)
  • Karin Sigloch (CNRS, Géoazur)
  • Hitoshi Kawakatsu (University of Tokyo / Academia Sinica)
  • Saskia Goes (Imperial College London)
  • Alexandre Fournier (Université de Paris)

2012–present

Associate professor (maître de conférences)
Institut de physique du globe de Paris
Université Paris Cité – UMR 7154

2010–2012

Postdoc
Université Toulouse III – IRAP

  • Subject :
    Fast computation of high-frequency seismic sensitivity kernels at the global scale
  • Supervisor : Sébastien Chevrot

2008–2010

JSPS Research Fellow (DC2)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

2007–2010

PhD – University of Tokyo

Department of Earth and Planetary Science

  • Title :
    A methodology for inversion of seismic waveforms for elastic and anelastic structure and its preliminary application to the mantle transition zone beneath the Northwestern Pacific

  • Supervisor : Robert J. Geller

  • Defended on : 14 January 2010

Jury

  • Satoru Honda (President)
  • Hitoshi Kawakatsu
  • Satoshi Ide
  • Takao Ohminato
  • Takashi Iidaka
  • Robert J. Geller

2005–2007

Master – University of Tokyo

  • Subject :
    1D SH velocity models for the subregions of the Northwestern Pacific obtained using waveform inversion
  • Supervisor : Robert J. Geller

2003–2005

Bachelor (years 3–4) – Geophysics, University of Tokyo

2001–2003

Bachelor (years 1–2) – Sciences, University of Tokyo

Funded research projects

Total : 654,5 k€

07/2025–

Scientific and artistic collaborator – NASA mission Farside Seismic Suite (FSS)

02/2025–10/2025

IUF workshop – CLEEDI (20 k€)

02/2025–

MITI project (CNRS) « DrVM-SeLFiE » (PhD : 150 k€)

12/2025–

CEA-IPGP project – InSAR on volcanoes (PhD : 75 k€)

10/2023–09/2025

Université Paris Cité project « Nu-Earth-Probe » (150 k€)

02/2023–10/2023

CLEEDI workshop (20 k€)

10/2022–09/2027

IUF project « MuseSeLFiE » (75 k€ + teaching reduction)

10/2018–09/2021

MOPGA project « GRANITE » (50 k€)

09/2017–

NASA mission InSight

Science outreach projects

Total : 28,3 k€

  • 03/2025 – Quand la musique fait vibrer la Terre ! (0,5 k€)
  • 10/2025 – Lunar Day concert (2 k€)
  • 06/2024 – Nuées Ardentes (0,5 k€)
  • 04/2024 – Theatre play En cas de doute, foncez ! (4 k€)
  • 07/2019 – IUGG concert at UNESCO (5 k€)
  • 09/2012– Director of the PhiloGaïa Orchestra

Skills

Programming

Julia > Fortran 77/90 (+MPI), Perl, Python > C > Java

Languages

Japanese
French
English (C2)
Russian (A2)
Portuguese, Italian, Norwegian, Chinese, Swedish, Korean, Catalan, Spanish, Icelandic (A1)

Hobbies

Bassoon (semi-professional)
Composition (Silver Prize – Master Open Competition 2025)
Skiing
Cooking
Piano

Collective responsibilities

Visibility and responsibilities

France

Since 04/2022
Head of the Geology and Seismology axis
International Research Centre (IRC), CNRS – University of Tokyo

01/2016–03/2022
Member of the GEOSCOPE scientific committee

Institut de physique du globe de Paris

Since 07/2025
Head of the seismology team

10/2017–09/2020
Programme director – M2R IMSES
(International Master in Solid Earth Sciences)

10/2016–12/2020
Head of one of the four research themes
Earth and planetary interiors

09/2016–09/2019
Elected member of the scientific council

09/2015–09/2020
Deputy head of the seismology team
(Head : Éléonore Stutzmann)

10/2012–09/2018
Programme director – M2R GPX
(Applied geophysics)

10/2012–09/2017
Organisation of the weekly seminars – seismology team

10/2012–09/2015
Organisation of the weekly seminars – marine geosciences team

Research consortium

09/2012–09/2018
Co-head of the GPX consortium
(Groupe de géoPhysique d’eXploration de Paris)

IPGP – Mines ParisTech
Funding : ANR, CGG, Total, Schlumberger

Distinctions and awards

2022–2027
Junior member – Science outreach chair
Institut universitaire de France

2017–2021
Research and supervision bonus (PEDR) – IPGP

Honorary citizenship

26/11/2024
Ambassador of Ariège
(Agence d’Attractivité Ariège)

31/07/2017
Honorary citizen – Town of Mazères (Ariège)

International invitations

Research stays

May–June 2017
Invited by Frédéric Deschamps
Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei

July–August 2018
Invited by Takashi Iidaka
Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo

Visiting researchers at IPGP

September 2025
John Hernlund

December 2014 ; April–May 2018
Kensuke Konishi

September–December 2014
Milena Marjanović

Mentoring and observation internships

Organisation of 3e (middle-school) observation internships and interviews with L2 students
IPGP visits: Pavillon Cuvier, Geoscope, experiments, InSight virtual reality, PhiloGaïa Orchestra rehearsals

06/2025 — Uma Abrand (Lycée Henri-IV)
06/2025 — IPGP seconde discovery internship
06/2024 — IPGP seconde discovery internship
06/2023 — Maia Maceiras Crozat (Saint-Michel de Picpus)
10/2021 — David Abdayem et al. (UPEC)
02/2018 — Margot Porteneuve
02/2015 — Iris Jiménez-Boissin
02/2012 — Andréas Font (Université Toulouse III)

Juries

PhD juries

12/2024 — Reviewer, Léo de Souza (Mines Paris-PSL)
02/2023 — Reviewer, Li-Yu Kan (Université Toulouse III)
11/2020 — Jury member, Ilaria Barone (Università di Padova)
09/2016 — Jury member, Paul Wellington (UGA)

Recruitment juries

01/2015 — Recruitment jury, École des Mines de Paris

International agreements (MoU)

  • Set-up of an MoU and a dual master’s degree
    Sorbonne Paris Cité – Kyoto University
    (with Édouard Kaminski, Hitoshi Mikada)

  • Renewal of the MoU IPGP – ERI Tokyo
    (with Jean-Paul Montagner, Masataka Kinoshita)

  • Renewal of the MoU IPGP – Academia Sinica
    (with Édouard Kaminski, Frédéric Deschamps)

Editing and reviewing

Editor

Discover Geosciences (Springer Nature)
Guest editor – Frontiers

Reviewer

Journal of Geophysical Research
Geophysical Journal International
Solid Earth (EGU)
Frontiers
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science

Organisation of scientific sessions

EGU 2026 – Vienna (BUGS session)
EGU 2025 – Vienna (BUGS session)
EGU 2022 – Vienna
AGU Fall Meeting 2018 – Washington DC
AOGS 2016 – Beijing
AOGS 2013 – Brisbane
WPGM 2010 – Taipei

Organisation of workshops

CLEEDI

Foix — 2021, 2023, 2025
(~30–40 researchers and musicians)

Multi-messenger tomography

Paris — 2023
(~50 researchers)

IPGP–ERI Tokyo

Paris & Tokyo — 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2022, 2024, 2026
(~60 researchers)

Paris Diderot–Seoul National University

Paris & Seoul — 2015, 2016
(~20 researchers)

Science outreach

Interviews :

France Info (2025)
La Dépêche (2011, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2025)
Le Monde (2012)
Gazette Ariégeoise (2021, 2023, 2025)

Public lectures and talks :
University of Tokyo
Kyoto University
Université Toulouse III
ENS Paris
Fête de la Science (IPGP)

Seismomusic

Founder of the PhiloGaïa Orchestra
IPGP chamber orchestra

Concerts at UNESCO (IUGG centenary, 2019)
Premieres :
Pierre et la Terre
Symphonic poem SEIS – InSight No. 1

CLEEDI concerts, international collaborations
≈ 20 geomusicians currently

Semi-professional bassoonist
Networks : Paris, Toulouse, Tokyo, Lisbon, Vienna, Oslo

Major symphonic repertoire :
Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Rimsky-Korsakov, Ravel

The common thread of these projects is the sensory immersion of the public in fundamental science, with no prerequisites and no preconceptions.