English CV

Current Position

• Postdoctoral Researcher — Géosciences Rennes, University of Rennes (Rennes, France · Jul 2022 – present)
  Hydrodynamics-aware geomorphic analysis, coupled morphodynamic–hydrodynamic modelling, open-source tooling (GraphFlood, scabbard, libtopotoolbox) and supervision of MSc/PhD projects.

Previous Roles

• Postdoctoral Researcher — GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences (Erdoberflächenprozessmodellierung) · Potsdam, Germany · Jun 2020 – Jun 2022
  Landscape-evolution and source-to-sink modelling, sediment routing across lakes and heterogeneous surface processes, major contributions to LSDTopoTools, fastscapelib and CHONK.
• Research Engineer — University of Edinburgh / Telespazio Vega · Edinburgh, UK · Jan 2019 – Nov 2019
  Landslide prediction by linking numerical models with InSAR datasets; delivery of production-grade C++ and Python pipelines.
• Research Engineer — Arcelor Mittal · Maizière-lès-Metz, France · 2015
  Laboratory analytics (FTIR, SEM, optical microscopy, XRF) and synthesis on banded iron formation deposits.

Education

• PhD in Earth Sciences — University of Edinburgh · Sep 2016 – Jun 2020
  Numerical methods for extracting tectonic signals from DEMs, field surveys for cosmogenic sampling and rock-strength testing, extension of LSDTopoTools.
• MSc (Mining Geology) — LaSalle Beauvais & Laurentian University (Sudbury) · 2010 – 2014
  Combined BSc in Geology with a joint French–Canadian MSc focused on economic geology.

Selected Publications

• Tzathas, P., Gailleton, B., Steer, P. & Cordonnier, G. (2024). Physically-based analytical erosion for fast terrain generation. Computer Graphics Forum, 43, e15033.
• Ruiz Sánchez-Oro, M., Mudd, S. M. & Gailleton, B. (2024). Using disorder metrics to distinguish discharge-driven from drainage area-driven incision. JGR: Earth Surface, 129, e2023JF007553.
• Oryan, B. et al. (2024). Megathrust locking encoded in subduction landscapes. Science Advances, 10, eadl4286.
• Gailleton, B., Steer, P., Davy, P., Schwanghart, W. & Bernard, T. (2024). GraphFlood 1.0: an efficient algorithm to approximate 2D hydrodynamics for landscape evolution models. Earth Surface Dynamics, 12, 1295–1313.
• Gailleton, B., Malatesta, L. C., Cordonnier, G. & Braun, J. (2024). CHONK 1.0: landscape evolution framework. Geoscientific Model Development, 17, 71–90.
• Aminov, J., Dupont-Nivet, G., Ruiz, D. & Gailleton, B. (2023). Terra Antiqua plugin for QGIS. Earth-Science Reviews, 240, 104401.

Research Software

• GraphFlood 1.0 (2024) — supporting code on Zenodo (doi:10.5281/zenodo.11065794).
• CHONK 1.0 (2023) — landscape evolution framework combining cellular automata and graph theory.
• LSDTopoTools2 / LSDMappingTools (2018–2023) — co-maintained releases on Zenodo.
• fastscape-litho, lsdtopytools, lsdfailtools (2021) — open-source packages for topographic analysis.
• xarray-simlab 0.5.0 (2021) — co-author of the modular modelling toolkit.

Outreach, Talks & Service

• 24 abstracts submitted to EGU, AGU and RST; six session-chair roles; invited talk at Geomod 2023.
• Public-facing pieces in System Erde 11(2), 36–41 (2021) and Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 2, 161 (2021).
• Preprints released on EarthArXiv (2024) and ESSOAr (2020).

Recent Conferences

• EGU25 (2025) — Nativ et al., Inverting the friction coefficient of heterogeneous riverbeds using 2D hydraulic simulations.
• AGU 2024 — Oryan, Gailleton et al., Subduction sculpting when megathrusts sleep.
• RST 2023 — Gailleton et al., GraphFlood: un algorithme efficace pour simuler l’hydrodynamisme.
• AGU 2020 — Gailleton et al., Lagrangian framework to simulate landscapes with local sinks.

Contact

• 📍 UMR 6118 Géosciences Rennes, Université de Rennes
• ✉️ boris.gailleton@univ-rennes.fr
• 🌐 www.bgailleton.github.io · GitHub bgailleton · Scholar profile Boris Gailleton