Summary
Professional Activities:
I served on the full-time academic staff at Imperial College from 1994 until 2011, promoted to the position of Professor of Earthquake Risk Assessment in 2006. During my 17 years on the academic staff I supervised to successful completion 15 PhD students, and taught subjects related to Engineering Seismoloy, Risk Analysis, Professional Engineering Practice, and Energy, at undergraduate and Masters level. I also held a number of departmental posts, including Postgraduate Tutor (1996-2000), Senior Tutor (2001-2003) and Director of Undergraduate Studies (2004-2010). In the last role I coordinated the introduction of new 4-year MEng curriculum in Civil Engineeing.
In August 2013 I rejoined the academic staff on a part-time basis as a Senior Research Investigator and am engaged with some research in the Department and continue to publish (Web of Science h-index currently 44) as well as contributing to some teaching modules, I am mainly engaged in seismic hazard projects around the world, primarily for nuclear applications but also related to large dams, bridges and other major infrastructure projects, including the Panama Canal expansion. I am also working on some projects related to the hazard and risk due to induced seismicity. Details of these projects are in my CV.
Areas of Expertise:
Engineering Seismology: earthquake ground-motion characterisation and prediction; definition of earthquake actions for seismic design; seismic hazard assessment for natural and induced seismicity; earthquake loss estimation and risk analysis.
Publications
Journals
Bommer J, Ake JP, Munson CG, 2023, Seismic source zones for site-specific probabilistic seismic hazard analysis: the very real questions raised by virtual fault ruptures, Seismological Research Letters, Vol:94, ISSN:0895-0695, Pages:1900-1911
Ntinalexis M, Kruiver P, Bommer J, et al., 2022, A database of ground-motion recordings, site profiles, and amplification factors from the Groningen gas field in the Netherlands, Earthquake Spectra, Vol:39, ISSN:8755-2930, Pages:687-701
Bommer JJ, Stafford PJ, Ruigrok E, et al., 2022, Ground-motion prediction models for induced earthquakes in the Groningen gas field, the Netherlands, Journal of Seismology, Vol:26, ISSN:1383-4649, Pages:1157-1184
Ruigrok E, Rodriguez-Marek A, Edwards B, et al., 2022, Derivation of a near-surface damping model for the Groningen gas field, Geophysical Journal International, Vol:230, ISSN:0956-540X, Pages:776-795
Boore DM, Youngs RR, Kottke AR, et al., 2022, Construction of a ground-motion logic tree through host-to-target region adjustments applied to an adaptable ground-motion prediction model, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol:112, ISSN:0037-1106, Pages:3063-3080