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Fadji Zaouna Maina

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Building 074, Room 0327S

M/S 74R316C

Phone: 510-486-6220

[email protected]

Curriculum Vitae

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Biography

Fadji Zaouna Maina is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Energy Geosciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Fadji received her Ph.D. in 2016 from the University of Strasbourg (France). She worked as a Ph.D. Candidate at CEA (The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission) and as a Postdoctoral Researcher at CNRS (The French National Center for Scientific Research) in France and Politecnico di Milano in Italy. Her research is focused on:

  • Assessing the impacts of climate change and wildfires on watershed hydrology using remote sensing techniques and high-resolution physically-based integrated hydrologic models
  • Investigating the interconnectivity between the subsurface and lower atmosphere dynamics
  • Development of efficient numerical algorithms for the resolution of variably saturated flow
  • Inverse modeling and adaptive downscaling parameterization to characterize complex hydrologic systems using multiple datasets (hydrologic, gravimetric and geologic)
  • Uncertainty quantification and global sensitivity analysis using polynomial chaos expansion to optimize hydrodynamic parameter estimation

Education

  • PhD in Hydrology, University of Strasbourg (France), 2013-2016, Dissertation: Modeling of water transfer to aquifers: application to the determination of groundwater recharge by inversion in a complex hydrogeological system
  • Master Degree, Engineering and Environmental Sciences, University of Strasbourg, 2011-2013, Dissertation: Comparison of models of pollutants transport in groundwater
  • Bachelor Degree, Geological Engineering, University of Fes (Morocco), 2008-2011

Experience

  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (California, USA), 2018-Present
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy), 2017-2018
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratory of Hydrology and Geochemistry of Strasbourg, The French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS, France), 2016-2017
  • Graduate Research Assistant, French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA, France), 2013-2016
  • Graduate Research Assistant, Laboratory of Hydrology and Geochemistry of Strasbourg, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS, France), 2013
  • Graduate Research Assistant, Laboratory of Hydrology and Geochemistry of Strasbourg, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS, France), 2012
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant, Department of Water Resources, Zinder (Niger), 2010

Awards

  • Forbes 30 Under 30, Class of 2020
  • Science SLAM finalist at Berkeley Lab, 2019
  • Rising Star in Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT, 2019
  • Rising Star in Hydrology, Gordon Research Conference, 2019
  • Kepler Award 2017 (PhD Thesis), 2017
  • Recipient of the excellence scholarship from the French government, 2012-2013
  • Recipient of the excellence scholarship from the Moroccan government, 2008-2011
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