Cécile CORNOU

Positions November 2019 - : Senior researcher at Institut de Recherche pour le Dévelopement (IRD) May 2004 - October 2019 : Researcher at Institut de Recherche pour le Dévelopement (IRD) April 2002 – April 2004 : post-doc fellow at ETH Zürich, Swiss Seismological Service, Switzerland
Education 2015. HDR, Université Grenoble Alpes, France 2002 : PhD degree in Seismology, Laboratoire de Géophysique Interne et Tectonophysique, University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France 1998 : Engineer (…)

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Peer reviewed papers
2024 Youssef, E., C.. Cornou, D. Youssef Abdel-Massih, T. Al Bitar, 2024. Non-stationary shear-wave velocity (Vs) randomization approach to propagate small-scale spatial Vs heterogeneities into seismic response, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, accepted Iskandar, R., J. Dugdale, E. Beck, C. Cornou, 2023. Agent-based simulation of seismic crisis including human behavior : Application to the city of Beirut, Lebanon, (…)

International training course SESARRAY (http://www.geopsy.org)
The main purpose of this course is to provide the necessary basic knowledge (theoretically as well as practically) to practitioners having different educational background (geologists, civil engineers, geophysicists) in the field of ambient vibration observation, processing and analysis for site characterization.
Past courses : Grenoble, France (2005) ; Potsdam, Germany ; Caracas, Venezuela (2006) ; Algiers, Algeria (2007) ; (…)

Current projects Grenoble Alpes Institute of Risk and Resilience (2022-2015) ; co-PI IRN Neo-LIFE (2023-2026) : French-Lebanese international research group ; co-PI of the scientific activities in the Beirut urban region ANR JCJC SASHA (2023-2027) : SAtellite imagery strategies for earthquake strong-motion prediction and SHAkemap generation, participant MITI CNRS/INSU Sciences Frugales (2021-2022). Seismic and Air Monitoring Observatory for Greater Beirut ; collaborations : ISTerre, CESBIO, (…)

PhD Houssam Al Jamal (2023-2026) Topic : Comprehensive seismic damage predictions at building scale in Beirut for a large magnitude earthquake on the Mount Lebanon thrust fault Advisors : C. Cornou, M. Causse (ISTerre), M. Dabaghi (American University of Beirut) Hongyi Su (2023-2026) Topic : Évaluation du mouvement sismique en champ proche, prise en compte des effets de site et de propagation régionale pour un séisme superficiel dans le Sud-est de la France Advisors : C. Cornou, M. Causse (…)