About me:

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at the University of Tokyo, working with Prof. Satoshi Ide.

Before joining UTokyo, I received my Ph.D. from the School of Earth and Space Sciences at Peking University, where I was advised by Prof. Han Yue and Prof. Lian Xue. During my Ph.D. studies, I was also a long-term visiting Ph.D. student at the University of Tokyo (October 2023 – July 2025), under the supervision of Prof. Satoshi Ide.

I am interested in observational seismology and earthquake physics.

My recent research activities are posted on ResearchGate and Google Scholar

📧 Email: luweifan001@gmail.com

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News and Events

[2025.07] I was invited to give a talk at the 1st Mini-Workshop of the ANR PREMs Project, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris

[2025.06] I gave a talk at Yunnan University
Thank you Professor Ren for hosting!

[2025.05] I successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis

[2025.04] Visited Tokyo University of Science
Thank you Professor Aso for hosting!

[2025.04] I host Professor Ide to visit Peking University

Scaling Fast and Slow Earthquakes
Earthquakes in Hierarchical Structure

[2025.02] First-authored paper at Commun Earth Environ
We are invited to write a post: Behind the Paper

[2024.12] Visited MIT
Very beautiful campus, thank you William for hosting!

[2024.12] AGU at Washington, D.C.

[2024.11] Visited DPRI, Kyoto University
Joint-seminar. Weifan gives a talk about anti-repeating earthquakes

[2024.10] SSJ meeting at Niigata

[2024.09] International Joint Workshop on Slow-to-Fast Earthquakes at Beppu

[2024.05] JpGU at Chiba

[2023.12] AGU at San Francisco

[2023.10] I have started my Visiting PhD program at the University of Tokyo

[2023.09] First-authored paper at EQS
This paper introduces a dense array that we spent one year deploying

[2022.12] AGU at Chicago (online)

[2022.04] Co-authored paper at PNAS
I am in charge of data analysis

[2021.12] AGU at New Orleans (online)

[2021.10] First-authored paper at GJI
This paper focuses on the dynamic earthquake sequence, and we develop a method to determine the fault geometry

[2021.09] Co-authored paper at EPSL
I am in charge of earthquake detection and seismicity analysis

[2019.12] AGU at San Francisco