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Fabrice Cotton: Breaking the Wall of Earthquakes
Falling Walls Foundation | Fabrice Cotton
How Data-Driven Seismology Creates Earthquake-resilient Societies
Earthquakes pose significant dangers to societies, leading to loss of life, injuries, and displacement of people. These events cause extensive damage to infrastructure, disrupt essential services, and have a profound economic impact, requiring substantial resources for recovery. Fabrice Cotton, a prominent seismologist, is a Professor at the University of Potsdam and head of the seismic hazard and risk dynamics section at the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ).
With approximately 150 publications, his diverse research spans seismic hazard analysis, ground-shaking evaluation, earthquake source studies, and international projects related to seismic building codes and hazard assessments of critical facilities, establishing him as a leading expert in the field.
At Falling Walls, Cotton will expand on his research that might one day enable us to create earthquake-resilient societies, creating a safer world for all Earth’s inhabitants.
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Fabrice Cotton is a seismologist whose research has covered a wide variety of topics such as seismic hazard analysis, ground-shaking evaluation and earthquake source studies. He has co-authored about 150 publications and has been involved in international projects related to seismic building codes or seismic hazard assessments of critical facilities. He is a Professor at the University of Potsdam, spoke person of the topic Geohazards of the Helmholtz Association and head of the seismic hazard and risk dynamics section of the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ).
