CV

Education

• B.S. in Geosciences, UniLaSalle (formerly Institut Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais, Beauvais, France) - 2012
• M.S. in Mining Geology, UniLaSalle and Laurentian University (Sudbury, Ontario, Canada) - 2015
• Ph.D in Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change, University of Edinburgh, 2016 - 2020

Work experience (Research)

• 2020 - current: Post-Doctoral Fellow (GFZ - Potsdam)
  • Developing methods for Landscape Evolution Modeling and topographic analysis
  • Source to sink at landscapes scale
  • Complex landscapes (lithologic heterogeneity, multiple forcings, …)
• 2019 - 2020: Research Software Engineer for the FORESEE project (University of Edinburgh - Telespazio)
  • 7 months
  • Prediciton of landslide using remote sensing and numerical models
  • Development of the software backend (implementation of the model and topographic analysis)
  • Integration of C++ code to python

Work experience (Industry)

• 2015: Iron Ore Deposit Characterisation
  • Arcelor Mittal
  • Duties included: Applied research on weathering in Banded Iron Formations deposits
• 2013: Technician - surface geophysics
  • SolData Geophysics - Vinci
  • Duties included: acquisition, processing and analysis of Electrical and Seismic tomography

Programming skills

• Python: advanced level
  • Data analysis and visualisation (e.g. matplotlib, scipy, scikit-learn, interactive jupyter widget development, multiprocessing)
  • backend optimisation (e.g. numba, cython, xtensor(-python), numexpr, dask)
  • Dataset management (e.g. pandas, xarray-data)
  • Geospatial (e.g. rasterio, gdal, geopandas, fiona, shapely)
  • Portage/bindings of C/C++/Fortran to python (cython, f2py, xtensor)
  • Package distribution (conda, pip, with cross-pltform binaries)
• C++: advanced level
  • Development and adaptation of large research softwares (e.g. LSDTopoTools, RichDEM, fastscapelib)
  • Developement of Landscape Evolution Modelling Framework
  • Template-heavy header-only
• HTML/CSS/Javascript:
  • Currently developping a web-only topographic analysis toolbox
• Occasional use when needed: C, R, Fortran, MATLAB, Julia, Java

Publications (need updates)

Bernard, T., Sinclair, H. D., Gailleton, B., & Fox, M. (2021). Formation of longitudinal river valleys and the fixing of drainage divides in response to exhumation of crystalline basement. Geophysical Research Letters, 48. DOI

Gailleton, B., Mudd, S.M., Clubb, F.J., Grieve, S.W.D. and Hurst, M.D. (2021, in review). Impact of changing concavity indices on channel steepness and divide migration metrics. Earth and Space Science Open Archive ESSOAr. Van der Wal, J. L., Nottebaum, V. C., Gailleton, B., Stauch, G., Weismüller, C., Batkhishig, O., … & Reicherter, K. (2020). Morphotectonics of the northern Bogd fault and implications for Middle Pleistocene to modern uplift rates in southern Mongolia. Geomorphology, 367, 107330.

Gailleton, B., Sinclair, H. D., Mudd, S. M., Graf, E. L., & Matenco, L. (2020, in review). Isolating lithologic versus tectonic signals of river profiles to test orogenic models for the Eastern and Southeastern Carpathians. Earth and Space Science Open Archive ESSOAr.

Harries, R. M., Gailleton, B., Kirstein, L. A., Attal, M., Whittaker, A. C., and Mudd, S. M. Impact of climate on landscape form, sediment transfer and the sedimentary record. Earth Surf Process Landforms. 2021; 46: 990– 1006. DOI

Bernard, T., Sinclair, H. D., Gailleton, B., Mudd, S. M., & Ford, M. (2019). Lithological control on the post-orogenic topography and erosion history of the Pyrenees. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 518, 53-66.

Gailleton, B., Mudd, S.M., Clubb, F.J, Hurst, M.D., and Pfeifer, D. A segmentation approach for the reproducible extraction and quantification of knickpoints from river long profiles, Earth Surface Dynamics Discussion

Mudd, S. M., Clubb, F. J., Gailleton, B., and Hurst, M. D. (2018) How concave are river channels?, Earth Surface Dynamics, 6, 505-523, doi:10.5194/esurf-6-505-2018