Rie Nakata (Kamei) is a Research Scientist and joined LBL in 2021. She is also an assistant professor at Earthquake Research Institute of University of Tokyo. She obtained a PhD at University of Western Ontario on the topic of seismic full waveform inversion. After a half-year post-doctoral position at University of Western Ontario, she was a research fellow at University of Western Australia in 2013-2018, University of Oklahoma in 2018, and MIT in 2019, before joining University of Tokyo in May 2019.