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Laurent Bollinger is affiliated with the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) in France. Their research primarily focuses on earthquake and tectonic studies, with substantial contributions in earth and planetary sciences alongside geophysics and related subfields.

The scientist's work spans several specific areas, including:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geological and geochemical analysis
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Earthquake detection and analysis
  • Geological and geophysical studies worldwide
  • Seismic waves and analysis
  • Landslides and related hazards

Their publication record features important papers such as:

  • "Building the Himalaya from tectonic to earthquake scales," 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "A decade of seismicity in metropolitan France (2010-2019): the CEA/LDG methodologies and observations," 2021, Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France
  • "FMHex20: An earthquake focal mechanism database for seismotectonic analyses in metropolitan France and bordering regions," 2020, Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France
  • "25,000 Years long seismic cycle in a slow deforming continental region of Mongolia," 2021, Scientific Reports
  • "Localized extension in megathrust hanging wall following great earthquakes in western Nepal," 2021, Scientific Reports

Laurent Bollinger frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Clara Duverger
  • Lok Bijaya Adhikari
  • Marine Laporte
  • Kristel Chanard
  • Alexandre Schubnel

Major publication venues for their work include:

  • Geophysical Journal International
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Comptes Rendus Géoscience
  • Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France

TheScientist's main fields of study fall within Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong emphasis on geophysics, covering over seventy publications in this subfield. Artificial intelligence methods and management, monitoring, policy, and law related to earth sciences also form part of their research interests.

Best Publications

  • Convergence rate across the Nepal Himalaya and interseismic coupling on the Main Himalayan Thrust: Implications for seismic hazard

    Thomas Ader;Thomas Ader;Jean-Philippe Avouac;Jing Liu-Zeng;Hélène Lyon-Caen

  • Primary surface ruptures of the great Himalayan earthquakes in 1934 and 1255

    Soma N Sapkota;Laurent Bollinger;Yann Klinger;Paul Tapponnier

  • Exhumation, crustal deformation, and thermal structure of the Nepal Himalaya derived from the inversion of thermochronological and thermobarometric data and modeling of the topography

    Frederic Herman;Frederic Herman;Peter Copeland;Jean Philippe Avouac;Laurent Bollinger

  • Slip pulse and resonance of the Kathmandu basin during the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal.

    John Galetzka;D. Melgar;J.F. Genrich;J. Geng

  • Plate Motion of India and Interseismic Strain in the Nepal Himalaya from GPS and DORIS Measurements

    Pierre Bettinelli;Jean Philippe Avouac;Mireille Flouzat;François Jouanne

  • Seasonal variations of seismicity and geodetic strain in the Himalaya induced by surface hydrology

    Pierre Bettinelli;Jean Philippe Avouac;Mireille Flouzat;Laurent Bollinger

  • Mountain building in the Nepal Himalaya: Thermal and kinematic model

    L Bollinger;Pierre Henry;Jean-Philippe Avouac

  • Estimating the return times of great Himalayan earthquakes in eastern Nepal: Evidence from the Patu and Bardibas strands of the Main Frontal Thrust

    L. Bollinger;S. N. Sapkota;P. Tapponnier;Y. Klinger

  • Thermal structure and exhumation history of the Lesser Himalaya in central Nepal

    Laurent Bollinger;Laurent Bollinger;J. P. Avouac;J. P. Avouac;O. Beyssac;Elizabeth Jacqueline Catlos

  • Rupture process of the Mw = 7.9 2015 Gorkha earthquake (Nepal): Insights into Himalayan megathrust segmentation

    Raphaël Grandin;Martin Vallée;Claudio Satriano;Robin Lacassin

  • Thermal metamorphism in the lesser Himalaya of Nepal determined from Raman spectroscopy of carbonaceous material

    Olivier Beyssac;Laurent Bollinger;Jean Philippe Avouac;Bruno Goffé

  • Current shortening across the Himalayas of Nepal

    François Jouanne;Jean-Louis Mugnier;J. F. Gamond;P. Le Fort

  • Density distribution of the India plate beneath the Tibetan plateau: Geophysical and petrological constraints on the kinetics of lower-crustal eclogitization

    György Hetényi;Rodolphe Cattin;Fabrice Brunet;Laurent Bollinger

  • Stress buildup in the Himalaya

    Laurent Bollinger;Laurent Bollinger;J. P. Avouac;J. P. Avouac;R. Cattin;M. R. Pandey

  • Spectral analysis of seismic noise induced by rivers: A new tool to monitor spatiotemporal changes in stream hydrodynamics

    A. Burtin;L. Bollinger;J. Vergne;R. Cattin

  • Long-term growth of the Himalaya inferred from interseismic InSAR measurement

    Raphaël Grandin;Marie-Pierre Doin;Laurent Bollinger;Béatrice Pinel-Puysségur

  • Seasonal modulation of seismicity in the Himalaya of Nepal

    L. Bollinger;F. Perrier;Jean-Philippe Avouac;S. Sapkota

  • The aftershock sequence of the 2015 April 25 Gorkha–Nepal earthquake

    L.B. Adhikari;U.P. Gautam;B.P. Koirala;M. Bhattarai

  • Slip deficit in central Nepal: omen for a repeat of the 1344 AD earthquake?

    Laurent Bollinger;Paul Tapponnier;Soma N Sapkota;Yann Klinger

  • Building the Himalaya from tectonic to earthquake scales

    Luca Dal Zilio;György Hetényi;Judith Hubbard;Laurent Bollinger

  • Rupture Process of the Mw=7.9 2015 Gorkha Earthquake (Nepal): Insights into Himalayan Megathrust Segmentation

    C. Satriano;R. Grandin;M. Vallee;R. Lacassin

Frequent Co-Authors

Yann Klinger
Yann Klinger Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Jean Philippe Avouac
Jean Philippe Avouac California Institute of Technology
Paul Tapponnier
Paul Tapponnier China Earthquake Administration
Rodolphe Cattin
Rodolphe Cattin University of Montpellier
Hélène Lyon-Caen
Hélène Lyon-Caen École Normale Supérieure
György Hetényi
György Hetényi University of Lausanne
Raphaël Grandin
Raphaël Grandin Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Christian France-Lanord
Christian France-Lanord University of Lorraine
Jean-François Ritz
Jean-François Ritz University of Montpellier
André Revil
André Revil Université Savoie Mont Blanc

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