Address
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
University of Hokkaido
Office 8-2-10
Science Bldg, Hokkaido University
Kita-10 Nishi-8, Kita-ku
Sapporo, Hokkaido, 060-0810, Japan
Tel. : +81-11-706-3566
e-mail : kenny@ep.sci.hokudai.ac.jp
Education
- 2007-2010 : BSc in physics, ENS de Lyon, France.
- 2010-2012 : Master in geophysics, IPGP - Université Paris diderot, France.
- 2012-2015 : PhD in geophysics, IPGP, France.
Experience
- 06/2019-06/2021 : Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Hokkaido, Japan.
- 10/2015-06/2019 : Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
Popular press coverage
Origin of polygonal pattern on Sputnik Planitia reported by sci-news.com.
Community service
- Organizer of semimonthly Postdoc Lunch Seminars, at the Institute of Earth Sciences of Academia Sinica, 10/2017 - 10/2018
- Organizer of semimonthly deep Earth group discussions, at the Institute of Earth Sciences of Academia Sinica, dedicated to present and discuss recent published papers, 01/2017 - 06/2019.
- Organizing committee of the 1st Asia/Pacific Workshop on Lithosphere and Mantle Dynamics, 2016.
- Organizing committee of IPGP PhD student conference, 2013.
Invited seminar
Iron spin state transition: implications on mantle convection and on the composition of LLSVPs, ENS de Lyon, France, 2019.
Thermal evolution of natural systems, Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2018.
What thermal convection tells us about planetary observations, applications to Pluto and habitability of exoplanets, Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2017.
What thermal convection tells us about planetary observations, applications to Pluto and habitability of exoplanets, Institute of Astronomy, NCU, Taiwan, 2017.
Theoretical and numerical modeling of thermal convection, applications to planetary mantles, Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2016.
Conference & Workshop (only oral presentation)
Constraints on the composition of LLSVPs, K. Vilella , AGU 2019.
Constraints on the composition of LLSVP: Effect of alumina, K. Vilella , Workshop on Earth's deep interior, Academia Sinica 2019.
Systematic study on the occurrence of melting in icy satellites: application to Europa and Titan , K. Vilella, F. Deschamps, W. E. Tsao and G. Choblet, AGU 2018.
Tidally heated convection and occurrence of melting in icy satellites, K. Vilella , Asia/Pacific Workshop on Lithosphere and Mantle Dynamics, JAMSTEC 2018.
Is cryovolcanism on icy satellites caused by tidally heated convection?, K. Vilella , Symposium on planetary interiors, Academia Sinica 2017.
Is Thermal Convection Responsible for Polygonal Structures on Pluto's Surface?, K. Vilella and F. Deschamps, AOGS 2017.
Effects of spin state transition on long-term stability of LLSVPs, K. Vilella, Y. Li and F. Deschamps, AOGS 2017.
Effects of spin state transition on long-term stability of LLSVPs, K. Vilella, Y. Li and F. Deschamps, TGA 2017.
Effects of spin transition and partitioning of iron on mantle dynamics, K. Vilella, S.-H. Shim, C. G. Farnetani and J. Badro, AGU 2013.
Supervised students
Wei-En Tsao 2017