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Nainwal, N. and Braun, A., 3D grid-based Terrain Correcton Method for UAV-borne Gamma-Ray Spectrometry, Geophysics, 2025, submitted
Beaulne, D., Atarita, F., Fotopoulos, G., Braun, A., Simulating at-sensor hyperspectral satellite data for inland water algal blooms,IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2025, submitted
Glisovic, P. and Braun, A., Numerical Modelling of Thermally Coupled Core-Mantle Evolution over 4.5 billion years: Implications for Initial Core-Mantle Temperatures, Mantle Rheology, and Surface Boundary Condition, Geoscience Frontiers, 2025, in review
Sauro, F., Braun, A., Bontognali, T., Calvari, S., Carrer, L., Crawford, I., De Waele, J., G´azquez, F., Hiesinger, H., Massironi, M., Zelia Miller, A., Kempe, S., Pajola, M., Pettinelli, E., Pinet, P.C., Pozzobon, R., van der Bogert, C., Zupan Hajna, N., Lunar Caves: looking below the surface of the Moon for science and human exploration, manuscript for 75th International Astronautical Congress, Milan, Italy, 8 pages, 2024
Braun, A., Panning, M., Gulick, S., and Li, Y. (2022), Introduction to this special section: Planetary geophysics, The Leading Edge 41: 670–671. https://doi.org/10.1190/tle41100670.1
Pieczonka, S., Schouten, D., Braun, A., Joint inversion of Muon Tomography and Gravity Gradiometry for Improved Monitoring of Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) Reservoirs, Geophysical Prospecting, DOI:10.1111/1365-2478.13205, 2022
Faraj, F., Braun, A., Stewart, A., You, H., Webster, A., Martin-Boyd, L. and Macdonald, A., Performance of a Modified YOLOv3 Object Detector on Remotely Piloted Aircraft System acquired Full Motion Video, J. Appl. Remote Sens. 16(2), 022203 (2022), doi: 10.1117/1.JRS.16.022203., 2022
Walter, C., Faraj, F., Fotopoulos, G., Braun, A. Augmenting geological field mapping with real-time 3D digital outcrop scanning and modeling, Geosphere, Jan 25, 2022; doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02452.1, 2022
Atarita, F. and Braun, A., Synthetic hyperspectral sensing simulator: a tool for optimizing applications in mineral exploration, Proceedings Volume 11914, SPIE Future Sensing Technologies 2021; 119140P (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2604031, 2021
Walter, C., Braun, A., Fotopoulos, G., Characterizing Electromagnetic Interference Signals for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Geophysical Surveys, Geophysics, https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2020-0895.1 2021
Stewart, A., F. Faraj, H. You, J. Plante, M. Lim, K. Kasa, A. Beauchamp, A. Webster, L. Martin-Boyd, K. Wong, A. Braun, and A. J. Macdonald "A modular system for behaviour analytics from airborne full-motion video", Proc. SPIE 11746, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Multi-Domain Operations Applications III, 117460I (12 April 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2584816, 2021
Abdalla, S. ..... Braun, A., and 303 others, Altimetry for the future: Building on 25 years of progress, Advances in Space Research, ISSN 0273-1177, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2021.01.022. 2021
MacDougall, M.D.J, Braun, A., Fotopoulos, G., Evidence of Lithospheric Boudinage in the Grand Banks of Newfoundland from Geophysical Observations. Geosciences, 11(2):55. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences11020055, 2021
MacDougall, M., Braun, A., Fotopoulos, G., Implications of Glacial Isostatic Adjustment on Petroleum Reservoirs in the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, J. Geodynamics, Volume 140, 2020, 101781, ISSN 0264-3707, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jog.2020.101781. 2020
Branson, A., Walter, C., Olivo, G., Braun, A., Fotopoulos, G., Geophysical Exploration for Podiform Chromite Occurrences in the Quesnel Terrane (NTS 082L/04), South-Central British Columbia, in Summary of Activities 2019 Minerals, Geoscience BC, Report 2020-1, 2020
Pieczonka, S., Dabboor, O., Osler, D., Braun, A., Schouten, D., On the Detectability of Density Change in SAGD Reservoirs Using Muon Tomography, The Leading Edge, https://doi.org/10.1190/tle39070497.1 , July 2020
Walter, C., Braun, A., Fotopoulos, G., High-Resolution Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Aeromagnetic Surveys for Mineral Exploration Targets, Geophysical Prospecting, DOI: 10.1111/1365-2478.12914, 2019.
Dettmering, D., Passaro, M, Braun, A., Advances in Satellite Altimetry and Its Application, Editorial for Special Issue, Remote Sensing, 1(24), 2913; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11242913, 2019
Walter, C., Braun, A., Fotopoulos, G., Impact of 3-D Attitude Variations of a UAV Magnetometry System on Magnetic Data Quality, Geophysical Prospecting, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2478.12727, 2018
Wiig, F., Harrower, M., Braun, A., Nathan, S., Lehner, J., Simon, LK., Sturm, J., Trinder, J., Dimitru, I., Hensley, S., Clark, T., Mapping a Subsurface Water Channel with X-band and C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar at the Iron Age Archaeological Site of Uqdat al-Bakrah (Safah), Oman, Geosciences, 8(9), 334; doi: 10.3390/geosciences8090334, 2018
Sivitskis, A.J., Harrower, M.J., David-Cuny, H., Dimitru, A., Nathan, S., Wiig, F., Viete, D, Lewis, K., Taylor, A., Dollarhide, N., Zaitchik, B., Al-Jabri, S., Livi, K., Braun, A., Hyperspectral Satellite Imagery Detection of Ancient Raw Material Sources: Soft-stone Vessel Production at Aqir al-Shamoos (Oman), Archaeological Prospection, https://doi.org/10.1002/arp.1719 , 2018
Irwin, K., Braun, A., Fotopoulos, G., Roth, A., Wessel, B., Assessing Single-Polarization and Dual-Polarization TerraSAR-X Data for Surface Water Monitoring, Remote Sens., 10, 949, 2018
Parvar, K., Braun, A., Layton-Matthews, D., Burns, M., UAV magnetometry for chromite exploration in the Samail ophiolite sequence, Oman, J Unmanned Vehicle Systems, https://doi.org/10.1139/juvs-2017-0015 , 2017
Irwin, K., Beaulne, D., Braun, A. , Fotopoulos, G., Fusion of SAR, Optical Imagery and Airborne LiDAR for Surface Water Detection, Remote Sens., 9, 890., 2017
Elliott, E.J., Braun, A., On the Resolvability of Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage Reservoirs Using Time-Lapse Gravity Gradiometry. Pure and Applied Geophysics 73, DOI 10.1007/s00024-017-1636-5, 2017
Bolkas, D., Fotopoulos, G., Braun, A., On the impact of airborne gravity data to fused gravity field models, J. Geodesy, pp 1-11, 2016
Elliott, E.J., Braun, A., Gravity Monitoring of 4D Fluid Migration in SAGD Reservoirs – Forward Modelling, CSEG Recorder, Vol. 41, No. 1, 2016
Bolkas, D., Fotopoulos, G., Braun,A., Tziavos, I., Assessing Digital Elevation Model Uncertainty Using GPS Survey Data, J. Surveying Eng., 04016001, 2016

Academic Career

since July 2019: Professor of Geophysics, Department of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering, Queen's University
since August 2017: cross-appointed to the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy, Queen's University
Jul-Oct 2017: WSL Fellow, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
2013 - 2019: Associate Professor of Geophysics, Department of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering, Queen's University
2010 - 2013: Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Dallas
2006 - 2009: Associate Professor of Geodesy, Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary
2004 - 2006: Assistant Professor, Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary
2003 - 2004: Senior Research Associate, Byrd Polar Research Center and Laboratory of Space Geodesy and Remote Sensing, The Ohio State University
2002 - 2003: Byrd Fellow, Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
1998 - 2002: Research Scientist at the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Dept. 1 - Geodesy and Remote Sensing
1998: PhD (magna cum laude) in geophysics at the University of Frankfurt, Germany
1996-1998: Research associate at the Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Frankfurt/Main
1995-1996: Research associate at the Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, Technical University of Berlin
1994: Diploma in Geophysics, University of Frankfurt/Main