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Overview

Jean Braun is affiliated with the University of Potsdam in Germany and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields including Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology, and Water Science and Technology.

Their main topics of work encompass a variety of geological and environmental studies, such as:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management

Recent publications by Jean Braun illustrate a strong involvement in the study of landscape evolution, tectonics, and mountain belt topography. Notable papers include:

  • "HyLands 1.0: a hybrid landscape evolution model to simulate the impact of landslides and landslide-derived sediment on landscape evolution," 2020, published in Geoscientific Model Development
  • "Topography of mountain belts controlled by rheology and surface processes," 2022, published in Nature
  • "Evolution of Rift Systems and Their Fault Networks in Response to Surface Processes," 2022, published in Tectonics
  • "Southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau stopped expanding in the late Miocene," 2022, published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • "Propagating uplift controls on high-elevation, low-relief landscape formation in the southeast Tibetan Plateau," 2021, published in Geology

Their frequent collaborators include Xiaoping Yuan, Cécile Robin, François Guillocheau, Benjamin Campforts, and Charles M. Shobe.

Jean Braun publishes regularly in a number of key scientific venues related to Earth sciences and geophysics. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Earth Surface Dynamics
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Tectonics
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters

This profile reflects Jean Braun's extensive engagement within the earth sciences research community, characterized by interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the dynamic processes shaping the planet's surface and subsurface environments.

Best Publications

  • Cerium anomalies in lateritic profiles

    Jean-Jacques Braun;Maurice Pagel;Jean-Pierre Muller;Paul Bilong

  • Geophysical parametrization and interpolation of irregular data using natural neighbours

    Malcolm Sambridge;Jean Braun;Herbert McQueen

  • Principles of Structural Control on Permeability and Fluid Flow in Hydrothermal Systems

    Stephen Cox;Mark Knackstedt;Jean Braun

  • Mobilization and redistribution of REEs and thorium in a syenitic lateritic profile: A mass balance study

    Jean-Jacques Braun;Mauric Pagel;Adrie Herbilln;Christophe Rosin

  • A physical explanation of the relation between flank uplifts and the breakup unconformity at rifted continental margins

    Jean Braun;Christopher Beaumont

  • SOLID/LIQUID REE FRACTIONATION IN THE LATERITIC SYSTEM OF GOYOUM, EAST CAMEROON: THE IMPLICATION FOR THE PRESENT DYNAMICS OF THE SOIL COVERS OF THE HUMID TROPICAL REGIONS

    Jean-Jacques Braun;Jérôme Viers;Bernard Dupré;Mireille Polve

  • Modelling landscape evolution on geological time scales: a new method based on irregular spatial discretization

    Jean Braun;Malcolm Sambridge

  • Chemical weathering in the drainage basin of a tropical watershed (Nsimi-Zoetele site, Cameroon) : comparison between organic-poor and organic-rich waters

    Jerôme Viers;Bernard Dupré;Mireille Polvé;Jacques Schott

  • Quantifying the effect of recent relief changes on age–elevation relationships

    Jean Braun

  • A very efficient O(n), implicit and parallel method to solve the stream power equation governing fluvial incision and landscape evolution

    Jean Braun;Sean D. Willett

  • The many surface expressions of mantle dynamics

    Jean Braun

  • Major and trace elements associated with colloids in organic-rich river waters: ultrafiltration of natural and spiked solutions

    Bernard Dupré;Jerôme Viers;Jean-Louis Dandurand;Mireille Polve

  • Quantitative Thermochronology: Numerical Methods for the Interpretation of Thermochronological Data

    Jean Braun;Peter van der Beek;Geoffrey Batt

  • Pecube: a new finite-element code to solve the 3D heat transport equation including the effects of a time-varying, finite amplitude surface topography

    Jean Braun

  • Quantifying rates of landscape evolution and tectonic processes by thermochronology and numerical modeling of crustal heat transport using PECUBE

    Jean Braun;Peter van der Beek;Pierre Valla;Pierre Valla;Xavier Robert

  • Major and trace element abundances, and strontium isotopes in the Nyong basin rivers (Cameroon): constraints on chemical weathering processes and elements transport mechanisms in humid tropical environments

    Jérôme Viers;Bernard Dupré;Jean-Jacques Braun;Samuel Deberdt

  • Modeling postbreakup landscape development and denudational history across the southeast African (Drakensberg Escarpment) margin

    Pieter A Van der Beek;Michael Summerfield;Jean Braun;Roderick William Brown

  • Coupled numerical–analytical approach to landscape evolution modeling

    Liran Goren;Sean D. Willett;Frédéric Herman;Jean Braun

  • The effect of organic matter on chemical weathering: study of a small tropical watershed: nsimi-zoétélé site, cameroon

    Priscia Oliva;Jerôme Viers;Bernard Dupré;Jean Pôl Fortuné

  • Present weathering rates in a humid tropical watershed: Nsimi, South Cameroon

    Jean-Jacques Braun;Jules Remy Ndam Ngoupayou;Jérôme Viers;Bernard Dupre

  • Three‐dimensional numerical experiments of strain partitioning at oblique plate boundaries: Implications for contrasting tectonic styles in the southern Coast Ranges, California, and central South Island, New Zealand

    Jean Braun;Christopher Beaumont

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter van der Beek
Peter van der Beek University of Potsdam
Frédéric Herman
Frédéric Herman University of Lausanne
Cécile Robin
Cécile Robin University of Rennes
François Guillocheau
François Guillocheau University of Rennes
Christopher Beaumont
Christopher Beaumont Dalhousie University
Laurent Husson
Laurent Husson Grenoble Alpes University
Malcolm Sambridge
Malcolm Sambridge Australian National University
Ritske S. Huismans
Ritske S. Huismans University of Bergen
Georges Calas
Georges Calas Sorbonne University

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