Ashwin Braude

Ashwin Braude is a JPL Postdoctoral Fellow originally from London, UK, and a specialist in the spectral analysis and modelling of planetary atmospheres.

Ashwin completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford in 2019 studying the origin of changes in colour and cloud structure in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn. He then pursued a three-year postdoctoral position at LATMOS in France, working on (i) the detection of volcanic gases in the atmosphere of Mars from the Trace Gas Orbiter/ACS instrument, and (ii) monitoring regional variability of ozone, a tracer of Martian meteorology, using the MAVEN/IUVS instrument. More recently, Ashwin has experimented with applied machine learning techniques to aid in the automatic detection of gaseous absorption features in planetary spectra.

In his current position at JPL, Ashwin is using a Global Climate Model (GCM) to better understand how sulphur outgassing from Martian volcanoes could have affected the potential habitability of early Mars, and the ability of the Martian surface to sustain liquid water. His supervisor is Dr Laura Kerber.