ILENIA BATTIATO - CURRICULUM VITAE Contact Information Personal Data Research Interests Bunsenstrasse 14 E-mail: ibattiat@gmail.com 37073 Göttingen, Germany ilenia.battiato@ds.mpg.de Date of Birth: 03-20-1981 Place of Birth: Catania, Italy hybrid methods; flow and transport in porous media; multiphase flow; subsurface hydrology; reactive transport; effective coefficients; granular matter. Education Ph.D. in Engineering Science w/spec Computational Science 2008-2010 Institution: University of California, San Diego, Department of Mechanical and Title: Hybrid Models of Transport in Crowded Environments Adviser: Daniel M. Tartakovsky M.Sc. in Engineering Physics 2006-2008 Institution: University of California, San Diego, Department of Mechanical and Adviser: Daniel M. Tartakovsky M.Sc. equivalent (Laurea V.O., 5-years, with highest honors) 2000-2005 Institution: Politecnico di Milano, Department of Environmental Engineering Title: Reactive transport in stochastically heterogeneous porous formations Advisers: Monica Riva, Alberto Guadagnini Relevant Employments Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization, Göttingen, Germany 10/2010-present Group: Granular matter Advisers: Stephan Herminghaus and Jürgen Vollmer Topic: Multiphase flow in porous media, Instability of wet granular matter, Wetting and De-wetting. Graduate Student Researcher, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States Summer 2009 Group: Hydrology group Adviser: Timothy Scheibe Topic: Hybrid models. Graduate Student Researcher, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States Summer 2008 Group: Hydrology group Adviser: Timothy Scheibe Topic: Applicability range of continuum scale equations, Nonlinear homogeneous reactive transport. 1 of 5
Teaching Experience Teaching Assistant Winter 2008 Course: MAE 210B, Fluid Mechanics II, graduate level. Instructor: Prof. E. Lauga. Teaching Assistant Fall 2007 Course: MAE 210A, Fluid Mechanics I, graduate level. Instructor: Prof. D.M. Tartakovsky. Awards and Scholarships Travel support for Fluxes and Structures in Fluids: Physics of Geospheres International Conference in Moscow, Russia (2009). Travel support for DOE-ERSP 4th Annual PI Meeting, Lansdowne (2009). Outstanding Student Paper Award, AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco (2008). Fellowship from RUI foundation - Politecnico di Milano (2000). Refereed Journals 1. Battiato, I., Tartakovsky, D. M., Applicability Regimes for Macroscopic Models of Reactive Transport in Porous Media. Journ. Cont. Hydrol., Special Issue, (2010), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jconhyd.2010.05.005 2. Battiato, I., Bandaru, P. R., Tartakovsky, D. M., Elastic Response of Carbon Nanotube Forests to Aerodynamic Stresses. Phys. Rev. Lett., (2010), 105, 144504, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.144504. 3. Battiato, I., Tartakovsky, D. M., Tartakovsky, A. M., Scheibe, T.D., Hybrid Simulations of Reactive Transport in Fractures. Adv. Water Resour., Special Issue. Accepted with moderate revisions. 4. Battiato, I., Tartakovsky, D. M., Tartakovsky, A. M., Scheibe T. D., On Breakdown of Macroscopic Models of Mixing-Controlled Heterogeneous Reactions in Porous Media. Adv. Water Resour. (2009), doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2009.08.008. Book Chapters 1. Battiato, I., Tartakovsky, D. M., From Upscaling Techniques to Hybrid Models. Mathematical and Numerical Modeling in Porous Media: Applications in Geosciences, CRC Press. Invited. Under review. Proceedings of National and/or International Conferences 1. Riva, M., Guadagnini, A., Battiato, I., Sanchez-Vila, X., Trasporto reattivo in formazioni eterogenee con moto forzato (Reactive transport in heterogeneous formations with radial flow field), Atti del XXX Convegno di Idraulica e Costruzioni Idrauliche, (2006), Casa Editrice Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, 207 (full paper on CD-ROM). 2 of 5
Invited Presentations 2010 CNRS, Montpel- Bridging scales: from upscaling techniques to hybrid models. lier, France, November 19. Hybrid Models of Reactive Transport in Crowded Environments. Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany, October 8. Hybrid Models of Reactive Transport in Crowded Environments. PhD Defense, University of California, San Diego, September 13. Contributed Presentations and Conferences 2010 Tartakovsky, D. M., Battiato, I., Tartakovsky, A. M., Scheibe T. D., Hybrid Models of Reactive Transport in Crowded Environments. 2010 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 13-17. Oral presentation. Invited. Battiato, I., Tartakovsky, D. M., Hybrid Simulations of Reactive Transport in Porous Media. XVIII International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources, CMWR 2010, Barcellona, Spain, June 21-24. Oral presentation. Battiato, I., Bandaru, P. R., Tartakovsky, D. M., Elastic Response of Carbon Nanotube Forests to Aerodynamic Stresses. Research Expo, University of California, San Diego, April 15. Poster presentation. 2009 Battiato, I., Tartakovsky, D. M., Upscaling of Nonlinear Reactive Transport via Multiple-Scale Expansions. 2009 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco CA, December 14-18. Oral presentation. Battiato, I., Upscaling Techniques and Hybrid Models of Reactive Transport in Porous Media, 8th North American Workshop on Applications of the Physics of Porous Media, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico, October 9-12. Oral presentation. Battiato, I., Tartakovsky, D. M., Tartakovsky, A. M., Breakdown of Macroscopic Models of Reactive Transport In Porous Media, Fluxes and Structures in Fluids: Physics of Geospheres, Moscow, June 24-27. Oral presentation. Battiato, I., Tartakovsky, A. M., Tartakovsky, D. M., Scheibe T. D., Mixing-Induced Precipitation Phenomena: Range of Applicability of Macroscopic Equations, DOE- ERSP Annual PI Meeting, Lansdowne VA, April 20-23. Poster presentation. Battiato, I., Tartakovsky, D. M., Macroscopic Models of Reactive Transport In Porous Media, 3rd Southern California Symposium On Flow Physics, San Diego CA, April 19. Oral presentation. 3 of 5
2008 Battiato, I., Tartakovsky, A. M., Tartakovsky, D. M., Scheibe T. D., Mixing-Induced Precipitation Phenomena: Range of Applicability of Macroscopic Equations, 2008 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco CA, December 15-19. Poster presentation. Water Resources System Analysis: The Contributions of William Yeh, A Symposium at UCLA, Los Angeles CA, December 12-13. Battiato, I., Hybrid Models for Reactive Transport in Porous Media, Advancement to Candidacy Exam, University of California, San Diego, November 5. Oral presentation. Battiato, I., Tartakovsky, A., Tartakovsky, D., Homogeneization Techniques for Reactive Transport in Porous Media, GRA 17th Annual Groundwater Conference and Meeting, Costa Mesa, CA, September 25-26. Oral presentation. DOE Summer School in Multiscale Mathematics and High Performance Computing, Hosted by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, August 4-6. UC-ANR Water Resources Coordinating Conference, Heidrick Ag History Center, Woodland, CA, April 17. Affiliations American Geophysical Union (AGU) Referee Journal of Fluids and Structures Languages Fluent: English, Italian Conversational: Spanish 4 of 5
References Prof. Daniel M. Tartakovsky Prof. Alberto Guadagnini dmt@ucsd.edu alberto.guadagnini@polimi.it Department of Mechanical and Dipartimento di Ingegneria Idraulica, Ambientale, Infrastrutture Viarie e University of California, San Diego Rilevamento (D.I.I.A.R.) 9500 Gilman Drive Politecnico di Milano EBU II, Room 577, Mail Code 0411 Piazza L. da Vinci, 32 La Jolla, CA 92093, United States. 20133 Milano, Italy. Dr. Timothy Scheibe tim.scheibe@pnl.gov Pacific Northwest National Laboratory PO Box 999 Richland, WA 99352, United States. Prof. Pierre Adler pierre.adler@upmc.fr Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6 Tour 56 Couloir 56-46 3me tage, Boite 123 ou 105 4, place Jussieu 75252 Paris cedex 05, France. Prof. Marco Dentz marco.dentz@idaea.csic.es Department of Geosciences Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA-CSIC) c/ Jordi Girona, 18 08034 Barcelona, Spain. 5 of 5