Baptiste Journaux

Research areas

Education: PhD, Planetary Science, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France, 2013

Interests: Planetary sciences, Icy moons structure and evolution, High pressure mineral physics, Astrobiology, Space exploration.

Current Research:
– Deep extraterrestrial oceans conditions
– icy ocean worlds Geophysics
– High pressure mineral physics
– Fundamental thermodynamics
– NASA DragonFly mission

Selected publications

  • Journaux, B. Salty ice and the dilemma of ocean exoplanet habitability. Nat Commun 13, 3304 (2022).
  • Journaux, B. et al. Holistic Approach for Studying Planetary Hydrospheres: Gibbs Representation of Ices Thermodynamics, Elasticity, and the Water Phase Diagram to 2,300 MPa. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 125, e2019JE006176 (2020).
  • Journaux, B. et al. Large Ocean Worlds with High-Pressure Ices. Space Science Reviews 216, (2020).