I am a senior researcher CNRS at Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris in teh group of Tectonics. My research focusses on earthquake cycle, from the study of modern earthquakes to the integration of earthquake deformation over several earthquake cycles to affect fault geometry and the overall landscape. Until now my work is mostly dedicated to continental deformation.
My main field areas are Asia and Near-East , although any continental earthquake represents a new opportunity to learn about earthquake processes and are worth studying.

I am interested in deformation processes during an earthquake. To study such deformations I am looking at the modern continental earthquakes by combining fieldwork and remote sensing, including optical correlation technics that are under development in our group. My target is to develop an integrated vision of the earthquake processes.

I am also interested in documenting history of past earthquakes. Hence, I use paleoseismological tools to get time series, and when possible 3D trenching to get back to displacement per events for past earthquakes.

Among topics I am addressing, I am specially interested in fault geometry and the interplay between earthquake rupture propagation and fault geometry. Evolution of such geometry through successive earthquake cycles is at the center of my research.

Eventually, I try to connect short-term earthquake deformation with long-term cumulative deformation over Quaternary. Hence, I am involved in studying slip rates for large continental faults where I also try to get paleoseismological information.