Fabrice COTTON (44 years old) is Professor of Geophyics at the University Joseph Fourier (Grenoble). The principal focus of his research is the characterization of strong ground-motion with a special emphasis on the improvement of European ground motion models and the development of new inversions techniques related to large earthquakes sources studies. He is actually the PI of the working group in charge of the strong ground-motion modeling for the FP7 SHARE program (Seismic Hazard Harmonization in Europe). He is author or co-author of over 60 publications on referenced international journals and he has been supervising or co-supervising 14 PhD students since 2001. He has been involved, as an external consultant, in a number of international consultancy projects involving seismic hazard assessments of critical facilities in France and Switzerland. He has been elected as junior member of « Institut Universitaire de France »

Last publications

1. Lemoine, A., J. Douglas and F. Cotton. Testing the applicability of correlations between topographic slope and Vs30 for Europe. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. In press.

2. Beauval, C. , H. Oksuz, A. Laurendeau, E. Delavaud, F. Cotton, Ph. Guéguen. On the use of small magnitude ground motions for the selection of ground-motion prediction equations in low-seismicity régions, 2012. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 102, doi : 10.1785/0120110271

3. Derras, B., PY Bard, F. Cotton and A. Bekkouche. 2012. Adapting the Neural Network Approach to PGA Prediction : An Example Based on the KiK-net Data. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 102, doi : 10.1785/0120110088

4. Radiguet, R., F. Cotton, M. Vergnolle, M. Campillo, Walpersdorf, N. Cotte, V. Kostoglodov Slow slip events and strain accumulation in the Guerrero gap, Mexico, 2012. J. Geophys. Res. 117, B04305.

5. Delavaud, E., F. Cotton, S. Akkar, F. Scherbaum, L. Danciu, C. Beauval, S. Drouet, J. Douglas, R. Basili, A. Sandikkaya, M. Segou, E. Faccioli and N. Theodoulidis, 2012. Toward a Ground-Motion Logic Tree for Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment in Europe. Journal of Seismology. DOI 10.1007/s10950-012-9281-z

6. Drouet, S., Bouin, M.P. and F. Cotton. New moment magnitude scale, evidence of stress drop magnitude scaling and stochastic ground-motion model for the French indies, 2011. Geophysical Journal International, 187, 1625–1644, doi : 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05219.x

7. Van Houtte C., Drouet C. and F. Cotton. Analysis of the origins of κ (Kappa) to compute hard rock to rock adjustment factors for GMPEs, 2011. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 101, 2926–2941, doi : 10.1785/0120100345

8. Rodriguez-Marek, A., Montalva, G.A., Cotton, F. and F. Bonilla. Analysis of Single-Station Standard Deviation Using the KiK-net data, 2011. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 101, 1242–1258, doi : 10.1785/0120100252

9. Radiguet M., Cotton F., Vergnolle M., Campillo M., Valette B., Kostoglodov V. Cotte N. Spatial and temporal evolution of a long term slow slip event, the 2006 Guerrero Slow Slip Event, 2011. Geophysical Journal International, doi : 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04866.x