EOST – Institut Terre et Environnement de Strasbourg CNRS – UMR 7063
Mustapha MEGHRAOUI (PhD in 1988 at University Paris XI-Orsay) is a senior research scientist (Physicien 1ère Classe) at the EOST-University of Strasbourg (France).
He is a member of the “Active deformation” team at Institut Terre et Environnement de Strasbourg (ITES – UMR 7063) and develops programs in the study of earthquake faulting, seismotectonics, paleoseismology, paleotsunami and geological hazards. He has played a significant role in the identification of earthquake faulting in intraplate and interplate tectonic domains.
He teaches Active Tectonics and Paleoseismology and supervised more than 15 PhD theses. He has been coordinator and PI in previous and current scientific projects in Europe, North Africa and Middle East (EC funded PALEOSIS ENV4-CT97-0578; SAFE EVG1-2000-22005, RELIEF EVG1-2002-00069, APAME ICA-CT-2002-10024, TRANSFER EC GOCE Contract N° 037058, FP7- ENV.2013.6.4-3-ASTARTE), in Algeria (PNE, ACI, CMEP) and since 2011 in Africa (UNESCO-IUGS-IGCP-601, IGCP-659 Seismic Hazard and Risk in Africa). He is the elected President of the African Seismological Commission (2018 – 2022), Freeman of the city of Chlef (ex El Asnam, the site of Mw 7.1 earthquake in 1980, Algeria), Honor Medalist of Aristoteles University (Thessaloniki, Greece), Merit Medalist of the Italian Ministry of Interior, and Honor Medalist of the Turkish Geological Society.
He is a founding member of the Algerian Academy of Science and Technology, and author and co-author of more than 99 peer-reviewed scientific publications in international journals, with 3567 citations and H-index of 38 (ISI Web of Science).
https://eost.unistra.fr/recherche/ites/da/da-perso/mustapha-meghraoui/