Curriculum Vitae

• Professional Experience

- Sept. 2020 -:Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, USA - Visiting researcher at Kyoto University, Disaster Prevention Research Institute

- Sept. 2018 - Sept. 2020: JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan

- Oct. 2016 - Sept. 2018: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

• Education

- Oct. 2013 - Sept. 2016: Ph.D., Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo (Advisor: K. Koketsu).

- Sept. 2011 - Jun. 2013:

- M.Sc. (2nd year), Geophysics (Major Seismology), Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris, France.

- M.Sc. (1st year), Geophysics, Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris, France.

- Sept. 2007 - Jun. 2010: B.Sc. Environmental, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris, France.

• Research experience

Sept. 2018 - Present: JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow - Kyoto University; Research in seismic interferometry, ground motion simulations, seismic monitoring, and machine/deep learning (Advisor: Tomotaka Iwata)

Oct. 2016 - Sept. 2018: Postdoctoral Fellow - Harvard University; Research in seismic interferometry, ground motion simulations, and seismic monitoring (Advisor: Marine Denolle)

Oct. 2013 - Sept. 2016: Graduate Research Assistant: Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo; Ph.D. Thesis: Long-Period Ground Motion Simulations using the Ambient Seismic Field (Advisor: K. Koketsu)

Jan. 2013 - Jun. 2013: Graduate Research Assistant: Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), France; Master Thesis: Broad-band acceleration time histories synthesis by coupling low-frequency ambient seismic field and high-frequency stochastic modelling (Advisor: L. F. Bonilla)

Feb. 2012 - May 2012: Graduate Research Assistant: Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), France; Master 1 Thesis: Analysis of nonlinear site response caused by the 2011 Tohoku (Mw 9.0) earthquake using the K-NET and KiK-net networks (Advisor: L. F. Bonilla)

Apr. 2010: Research Assistant - Institut Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), France; Bachelor Thesis: Analysis of sand dune dynamic using wind data (Advisor: C. Narteau)

Dec. 2009 - 2012: Member of the Pratham project : international student project aiming to build a satellite and ground stations to measure the total electron content of the ionosphere (link).

• Teaching experience

Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences Department (Fall 2017) EPS55: Earthquakes and tectonics

• Fellowship and Grants

2020: Chris Van Houtte and Loïc Viens, Towards near-real-time volcano monitoring with next-generation ambient noise techniques, Earthquake Commission Biennial Grants Programme 2020 (New Zealand)

2018 - 2020: Loïc Viens, Ground Motion Prediction of Megathrust Earthquake and Application to Earthquake Early Warning, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Standard Postdoctoral Fellowship

2018 - 2020: Loïc Viens and Tomotaka Iwata, Ground Motion Prediction of Megathrust Earthquake and Application to Earthquake Early Warning, Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellow

2013 - 2016: Loïc Viens, Monbukagakusho (MEXT) Ph.D. Research Scholarship, Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

2013: Loïc Viens, Ground Motion Prediction for the Seismic Hazard Assessment in Metropolitan Areas: A New Method to Help to Decrease the Vulnerability of the Man- made Constructions, Center for Sustainable Urban Regeneration (cSUR) grant, The University of Tokyo

• Awards

2019: Excellent Research Presentation Award at the Annual meeting of the Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan

Jul. 2016: Outstanding Student Presentation Award at 2016 Japan Geoscience Union Meeting

Jul. 2015: Outstanding Student Presentation Award at 2015 Japan Geoscience Union Meeting

Jan. 2015: Outstanding Student Presentation Award at 2014 Fall Meeting of Seismological Society of Japan

• Field experience

Jun. - Aug. 2017: Installation of a broadband seismometer array, Medford, MA, USA

May 2017: Installation of a broadband seismometer array, Cambridge, MA, USA

July - Nov. 2015: Installation of broadband and strong ground motion sensors in a building, Tokyo, Japan

Mar. 2015: Installation of strong ground motion sensors along the Itoigawa‐Shizuoka Tectonic Line, Japan

• Skills

Operative systems: UNIX/Linux, OSX

Programming: Python, MATLAB, Fortran, Shell, LATEX

Software: Obspy, Keras, scikit-learn, Pandas

Seismic instruments: Nanometrics Trillium Compact, Nanometrics Trillium Compact, JEP-6A3 Strong Ground Motion Sensor

Languages: English (fluent), French (native), Japanese (good)

• Service to the scientific community

Reviewer for: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, French National Agency for Research, Geophysical Journal International, Geophysical Research Letters, Pure and Applied Geophysics

Conference convener: 2016 AGU Fall meeting (Session NH14A: New Geophysical Methods for Understanding Geohazards in Urban Basins)

• Outreach

Viens, L., Presentation on “Simulating earthquakes with seismic noise”, JSPS Science Dialogue

Program, Kyoto Prefectural Yamashiro Senior High School, Kyoto, Japan, February 2019