CURRICULUM VITAE (as of December 2018)

 

Name:    Fumiko Tajima  

 

Mailing Addresses: 

Department of Physics & Astronomy, 4188 Frederick Reines Hall,

University of California, Irvine, California 92697-4575, USA

Education:     University of Tokyo:  D.S., M.S.,  B.S.

                         

Research Interest:  Solid Earth Geophysics (earthquake seismology - earthquake source,
seismic activity, real-time seismology, earthquake hazard reduction and mitigation;

Earth's structure, geodynamics).

Professional Experience :

2018.12.1-2019.3.31: Specially Appointed Professor, Office for Academic Exchange with the University of California, Osaka University

2014-present:  Lecturer, Department of Physics & Astronomy, School of Physical Sciences, University of California, Irvine

2013- 2014: Senior Scientist, Tri Alpha Energy, Foothill Ranch, California 92610

2009-2012:  Guest Professor, Ludwig-Maximilians-UniversitŠt (LMU)

2002-2009:    Professor, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Science (2002-2009)

1999-2002:   Research Geophysicist at the University of California at Berkeley

1983-1998:   Research Associate (1983-1987) and Research Scientist (1987-1998) at the Institute for Geophysics, The University of Texas at Austin


       1978-1982:   The University of Texas at Austin, Research Scientist Associate III (1982),  California Institute of Technology, Staff Scientist  (1979-1982),
                            Dames and Moore, Staff Seismologist（1978-1980)

Committee Service and Other Professional Activity

[Served on committees and councils]   Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) in Japan;
         Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU);  Seismological Society of Japan (SSJ); Council at Earthquake Research Institute (ERI)
         of The University of Tokyo; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS);  Research Center for Earthquake Prediction
         (RCEP) of Kyoto University Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI); Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science Technology
         (JAMSTEC); many others:

[Special Session Convener for recent international conferences & Guest Editor]

á JpGU-AGU joint session on Earthquake early warning developments around the world (Makuhari-Messe, Chiba/Japan, May 2016)

á EGU- JpGU joint session on the mantle transition zone structure and dynamics, 2011 EGU Annual Meeting (Viena/Austria, April 2011)

á Special session on Recent megathrust earthquakes and tsunamis: observations and processes, GSA International conference, Fragile Earth, (Munich/Germany, Sept. 2011)

á JpGU-EGU joint session on the mantle transition zone structure and dynamics, 2010 JpGU Annual Meeting (Chiba/Japan, May, 2010)

       á Special Section on Recent Megathrust Earthquake and Tsunamis for Tectonophysics, Elservier (2012)

Awards and Fellowships:  

Fellowship from Excellence Initiative, LMU Munich/ Germany (2008-2009); JSPS Invited Fellowship (1998);
NSF Career Advancement Award for Women Scientists/U.S.A. (1987); German Academic Exchange
Service Scholarship (DAAD) (1972-1973)

Major Research Grants: (lists in the US and Japan)

Professional Societies:

American Geophysical Union (AGU),  Japan Seismological Society (JSS), Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU),
Seismological Society of America (SSA), European Geosciences Union (EGU)