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Ji-Ching Chen (Livia)

I am currently a PhD student at the Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), CA, USA (2025-)

Not looking for networking or collaborations at the moment. Only reach out if it's truly urgent!!!

Research Experience

Research Assistant — Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan (2022–2024)

  • Modeled temporal variations in Europa's ice shell thickness using a parameterized convection approach, exploring the effects of tidal heating, ice viscosity, and orbital eccentricity (Europa_ice_shell, pythonStagYY)
    • Published: Temporal Changes in Europa's Ice Shell Thickness: Insights From Models of Convection, Chen, Deschamps & Hsieh, JGR: Planets, 2026. DOI: 10.1029/2024JE008928
  • Investigated the effect of thermal conductivity variations on subducting slab dynamics (pythonStagYY_ThermalConductivity)
  • Advisors: Frédéric Deschamps and Wen-Pin Hsieh

Graduate Student — Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University (2021–2022)

  • M.S. thesis: Origin and Evolution of Flat Slab Subduction: Insights From Numerical Geodynamics Modelling
  • Advisors: Eh Tan (Academia Sinica) and Shu-Huei Hung (NTU)
  • Investigated the mechanical controls on flat slab subduction in Mexico and Chile using the FLAC (Fast Lagrangian Analysis of Continua) numerical package
  • Analyzed slab geometry, stress distribution, plate forces, and magma generation using custom Python tools (pythonFLAC, geoflac)
  • Thesis repository: ThesisNTU | DOI: 10.6342/NTU202300033

Tools & Languages

Python Fortran LaTeX C++

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  1. geoflac geoflac Public

    Forked from tan2/geoflac-old

    Code for lithospheric scale geodynamics

    Fortran

  2. pythonFLAC pythonFLAC Public

    Python

  3. Europa_ice_shell Europa_ice_shell Public

    Fortran

  4. mars-hefesto-inversion mars-hefesto-inversion Public

    Python

  5. pythonRhea_spherical_box pythonRhea_spherical_box Public

    Rhea earth example

  6. pythonStagYY pythonStagYY Public

    Python