Samuel Auclair is an engineer in seismology and strategic crisis management. He coordinates BRGM''s activities in support of crisis management, and co-leads the "Industrial and territorial resilience" challenge of the SAFE Cluster (French competitiveness cluster).
Expert in decision-support for earthquakes, he works extensively on the operational management of geophysical disasters, and on supporting civil protection stakeholders, notably through crisis exercises. From 2018 to 2022, he was the national coordinator of the post-seismic damage assessment team of the French association for earthquake engineering. S. Auclair is currently the scientific coordinator of a research project on the automatic analysis of social media to support crisis management in the event of natural disasters.