Prof. Dr. Fabrice Cotton

Haus
A 70,
Raum
216 (Büro)
Telegrafenberg
14473
Potsdam
Funktion und Aufgaben:
- Professor of seismology, Institute of Geosciences, University of Potsdam (Germany)
- Topic spoke-person of the Helmholtz Association and GFZ Director in charge of the topic “Living on a restless Earth: towards forecasting geohazards”
- Head of the GFZ research section “Seismic Hazard and Risk Dynamics“
Full vitea on https://nextcloud.gfz-potsdam.de/s/9RqX2B6J8LdmYg8
Wissenschaftliche Interessen:
- Earthquake Source analysis (kinematic inversions, slow silent earthquakes, stress drop analysis)
- Engineering Seismology (ground-motion models, focus on low seismicity area)
- Probabilistic seismic hazard assessment
- Site specific and high consequences low probabilities hazard assessment (e.g. critical facilities)
- Development of new methods (e.g. Data-mining) to explore strong-motions data and evaluate epistemic uncertainties
Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7201778178
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=OzOX7wEAAAAJ&hl=de
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9242-3996
Karriere:
- 2001-2014 Full Professor, Geophysics, University of Grenoble-I (Joseph Fourier)
- 2007-2010 Director of the Grenoble Geophysics laboratory (LGIT, CNRS-University Joseph Fourier-IRD)
- 2004-2014 Uni. Grenoble Coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Master Program "Master of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology"
- 2003-2007 Deputy-Director of the Grenoble Geophysics laboratory (LGIT, CNRS-University Joseph Fourier-IRD)
- 1996-2001 Researcher, seismic hazard team of IRSN (Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire, Fontenay aux Roses, France). Head of the team from 1999 to 2001
- 1992-1995 Research Assistant (“Assistant Normalien Doctorant”), Grenoble University
Werdegang / Ausbildung:
- 2001 Habilitation – University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
- 1995 Ph.D. Seismology – University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
- 1988-1992 Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon and Lyon University
Projekte:
- Coordination of the Geo-Inquire project (Geosphere INfrastructures for QUestions into Integrated Research, HORIZON-INFRA, 51 Institutions involved)
- ITN Urbasis (2019-2022, Urban seismology)
- SERA (2017-2020, Seismology and Earthquake Engineering Research Infrastructure Alliance for Europe)
- EPOS-IP (2016-2019, European Plate Observatory System Implementation Phase)
- Nat-Risk-Change (2015-2022, Natural Hazards and Risks in a Changing World)
- STREST (FP7, 2013-2016, Towards stress tests for critical infrastructures against natural hazards)
Wissenschaftliche Gremien:
- Chair of EFEHR (European Facilties for Earthquake Hazard and Risk) since 2019
- ERC evaluation panel member 2020
- Associate Editor of BSSA (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America) 2016-2021
- Chair of the GEM (Global Earthquake Model foundation) Science Board from 2015 to 2018
Auszeichnungen:
- Gauss lecture (EGU 2017)
- Helmholtz Association Recruitment Initiative Professorship (2014)
- Kyoto University invited Professor (2013)
- University Grenoble-I medal (2008)
- Institut Universitaire de France junior fellow (2006)