Email : olga.ktenidou at ujf-grenoble.fr (or at gmail.com)
ResearchGate : https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Olga-Joan_Ktenidou2/?ev=hdr_xprf
LinkedIn : fr.linkedin.com/pub/olga-joan-ktenidou/6b/181/58a

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Engineering seismology and geotechnical earthquake engineering : site effects (topographic and basin edge effects, observational study and 2D numerical modeling site response analysis), signal processing (downhole and surface arrays, earthquake and microtremor record processing), ground motion prediction (kappa and high-frequency ground motion attenuation), ground motion uncertainty and variability (single station sigma)

BACKGROUND

Nov. 2011 – : Université Joseph-Fourier CNRS, ISTerre.
Post-doctoral researcher

Mar. – Apr. & Sept. – Dec. 2013 : Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER), University of California @ Berkeley.
Visiting scholar

June – July 2013 : Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University, Japan
Visiting scholar

Nov. 2010 – Nov. 2011 : Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire, BERSSIN.
Post-doctoral researcher

Nov. 2004 – Oct. 2010 : Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Greece.
PhD in Civil Engineering : ‘Experimental and theoretical study of seismic ground motion in the city of Aegion, Greece, focusing on local site and topographic effects’.
http://invenio.lib.auth.gr/record/124050/files/GRI-2010-5489.pdf

Mar. – Dec. 2008 : UNAM, México. Visiting researcher

2003 – 2004 : Imperial College London, UK.
MSc in Soil Mechanics and Engineering Seismology

1997 – 2003 : Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Greece.
Diploma in Civil Engineering

LANGUAGES

Greek, English, Spanish, French

PAPERS IN JOURNALS

Ktenidou O.-J., F.J. Chávez-García, K. Pitilakis (2011). ‘Variance reduction and signal-to-noise ratio : reducing uncertainty in spectral ratios’. Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 101(2), pp. 619–634.
http://www.bssaonline.org/content/101/2/619.abstract

Van Houtte, C., O.-J. Ktenidou, T. Larkin, A. Kaiser (2012). ’Reference Stations for Christchurch’, Bull. New Zealand Society Earthq. Engineering, 45(4), pp. 184-195.

Ktenidou O.-J., C. Gélis, L.F. Bonilla, (2013). ‘A study on the variability of kappa (κ) in a borehole : implications of the computation process’. Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 103(2a), pp. 1048-1068.
http://bssa.geoscienceworld.org/content/103/2A/1048.abstract

Laurendeau A., F. Cotton, O.-J. Ktenidou, L-F. Bonilla, and F. Hollender (2013). ‘Rock Site Amplification : Dependencies on Vs30 and kappa’. Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 103(6), pp. 3131-3148.
http://bssa.geoscienceworld.org/content/103/6/3131.abstract

Ktenidou O.-J., F. Cotton, N. Abrahamson, J.G. Anderson (2014). ‘Taxonomy of k0 : A review of definitions targeted to applications’. Seismol. Res. Letts 85(1), pp. 135-146.
http://srl.geoscienceworld.org/content/85/1/135.extract

C. Van Houtte, O.-J. Ktenidou, T. Larkin and C. Holden (2014). ‘κ0 for stiff soil and soft rock in Christchurch, New Zealand : measurement suggestions and comparison with local ground motion prediction models’, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. (in review).

FULL PAPERS IN PEER-REVIEWED INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

Ktenidou O.-J., Raptakis D., Apostolidis P., Pitilakis K. (2007). ‘Aspects of surface topography and site effects - Experimental and numerical studies at Aegion, Greece’. 4th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, Thessaloniki, Greece. June 25-28, 2007.

Ktenidou O.-J., F.J. Chávez-García, D. Raptakis, K. Pitilakis (2009). ‘Engineering aspects of site and topography effects at Aegion, Greece’. 3rd Greece-Japan Workshop on Seismic Design, Observation and Retrofit of Foundations with Special Issues on Protection of Cultural Heritages, Balkema (Gazetas, Tazoh, Goto eds.), Santorini, September 22-23, 2009.

Ktenidou O.-J., K. Pitilakis, D. Raptakis (2010). ‘Weak Motion Soil Amplification at Aegion, Greece, and Comparison with Seismic Design Codes’. 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics and Symposium in honor of professor I. M. Idriss, San Diego, May 24-29, 2010.

Ktenidou O.-J. (2010). ‘Numerical investigation of site effects at Aegion, Greece’. Sponsored contribution (after selection by the Hellenic SSMGE) to the 20th European Young Geotechnical Engineers’ Conference, Brno, Czech Republic, May 30– June 1, 2010.

Ktenidou O.-J., F.J. Chávez-García, D. Raptakis, K. Pitilakis (2011). ‘Numerical investigation of site effects at Aegion, Greece’. 5th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, Santiago, Chile. Jan. 10-13, 2011.
http://www.5icege.cl/images/stories/congress_sessions/papers/session_5/5.15.NIOKT.pdf

Ktenidou O.-J., S. Arnaouti, C. Gélis, L.F. Bonilla, (2011). ‘Variability of kappa (κ) : a study using borehole records’. 4th International IASPEI/IAEE Symposium on the Effects of Surface Geology on Seismic Motion (ESG4), University of California Santa Barbara, Aug. 23-26.
http://esg4.eri.ucsb.edu/sites/esg4.eri.ucsb.edu/files/2.25%20Ktenidou%20et%20al.pdf

Ktenidou O.-J., L.F. Bonilla, S. Arnaouti, C. Gélis, K. Pitilakis (2011). ‘Preliminary estimation of κ at Aegion (Gulf of Corinth, Greece) using a downhole accelerometric array’. 8ème colloque national de l’AFPS, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, Champs-sur-Marne, Sep. 6-8.
https://webistem.com/bin/pdfabstract?dir=afps2011&ref=149

Ktenidou O.-J., S. Drouet, N. Theodulidis et al. (2012) ’Estimation of kappa (κ) for a sedimentary basin in Greece (EUROSEISTEST) - Correlation to site characterisation parameters’. 15th World Conference of Earthquake Engineering, Lisbon, 24-28 Sep.
http://peer.berkeley.edu/~aschell/15WCEE/pdf/WCEE2012_4079.pdf

CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOK CHAPTERS

Landslides : From Mapping to Loss and Risk Estimation, Ed. Crosta G.B., Frattini P. LESSLOSS (Risk Mitigation for Earthquake and Landslides) Report No. 2007/01, Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia, IUSS Press, ISBN : 978-88-6198-005-1
http://elsa.jrc.ec.europa.eu/displaypdf.php?doc=/lessloss/doc/Abstracts.pdf

Ktenidou O.-J., Pitilakis K. (2007). ‘The Case of Aigion City, Greece’, pp. 73-79.

Ktenidou O.-J., Pitilakis K., Raptakis D., Apostolidis P. (2007). ‘Aegion Slope : Topographic Effects on Seismic Ground Motion and Effects on Seismic Risk Assessment’, pp. 81-89.

Ktenidou O.-J., Pitilakis K. (2007). ‘Petacciato slope : Seismic ground motion analysis and risk analysis for pipeline crossing the unstable area’ , pp. 99-106.