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Fadji Zaouna Maina

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Building 074, Room 0327S

M/S 74R316C

Phone: 510-486-6220

fadjimaina@lbl.gov

Curriculum Vitae

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