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