Elena Montilla Rosero
Ingeniera Física, Doctora en Ciencias Física.
Resumen/Summary
Ingeniera física de la Universidad del Cauca (Colombia), Magíster en Instrumentación en Física, Doctora en Ciencias Físicas de la Universidad de Valladolid (España) con categoría "Investigador Senior" (desde 2021 hasta la fecha), acorde al Ministerio de Ciencias en Colombia. Realizó dos estancias postdoctorales en óptica atmosférica: CEFOP-UdeC (Chile) y en IPEN-UFRN (Brasil). Ha trabajado como docente-investigadora en la Universidad de Concepción (Chile) y ha participado en proyectos colaborativos en el Observatorio Atmosférico Alomar (Noruega), la Universidad de Beira Interior (Portugal) y la RED LIdar Latinoamericana (LALINET). Su carrera en investigación ha estado dedicada al estudio de los aerosoles atmosféricos mediante instrumentación óptica, especialmente mediante técnicas Lidar.
Physicist Engineer from the University of Cauca (Colombia), M.Sc. Physics Instrumentation, and Ph.D. Physical Sciences by University of Valladolid, Spain. Also, with the "Senior Researcher" category (since 2021) according to the Ministry of Science in Colombia. She was in two postdoctoral research positions devoted to atmospheric optics in the CEFOP-UdeC (Chile) and the IPEN-UFRN (Brazil). She had worked as a teacher-researcher at the University of Conception (Chile), and she had participated in collaborative projects at the Alomar Atmospheric Observatory (Norway), the University of Beira Interior (Portugal), and the Latin American Lidar NETwork (LALINET). Her research career has been dedicated to studying atmospheric aerosols using optical instrumentation, especially by Lidar techniques.
Intereses académicos e investigativos/Research and Teaching Interest
Lidar.
Instrumentación óptica atmosférica / Atmospheric optical instrumentation.
Espectrometría y polarimetría atmosférica / Spectrometry and atmospheric polarimetry.
Polución de aire / Air pollution.
Aerosoles atmosféricos / Atmospheric aerosols.
Estudios realizados/Education
Doctorado Europeo en Ciencias Físicas (febrero de 2010). Universidad de Valladolid, España. Título de la tesis: Determinación de las propiedades de absorción de los aerosoles atmosféricos: aplicación en la zona Sub-Ártica de Noruega / European Ph.D., Physics Science (February, 2010). University of Valladolid, Spain. Thesis title: Absorption properties of atmospheric aerosols: application to the subarctic region of Norway.
Maestría en Instrumentación en Física (septiembre de 2007). Universidad de Valladolid, España. Título de la tesis: Medición de la radiación solar espectral y obtención del espesor óptico de aerosoles desde 350 nm a 2500 nm / M.S., Physics Instrumentation (September, 2007). University of Valladolid, Spain. Thesis title: Solar spectral measurements and aerosol optical depth retrieval from 350 nm to 2500 nm.
Pregrado en Ingeniería Física (mayo de 2003). Universidad del Cauca, Colombia. Título de la tesis: Adecuación y caracterización del láser de Ión Argón para aplicaciones en pruebas de dispersión de luz por partículas atmosféricas / B.Sc., Engineering Physics (March, 2003). University of Cauca, Colombia. Thesis title: Characterization and optimization of Argon Ion laser: application to light scattering by atmospheric particles.
Redes a las que pertenece / Afiliations
Lalinet: Red Latinoamericana de Lidar: http://www.lalinet.org/index.php/Sites/Colombia-EAFIT
Proyectos de investigación /Research projects
Estimation of urban pollution using measurements and assimilation of data on ground, in situ and from remote sensing (4DAir-MOLIS). Sponsor: Colombian Ministry of Sciences - EAFIT University. Project number: 1150-852-71525. Field: Atmospheric Optics - Atmospheric Pollution. Duration: May 2021- May 2024
Project: 3D+1 study of atmospheric pollution: In situ, on ground and remote sensing measurements plus atmospheric modelling. Sponsor: EAFIT University. Project number: 954-000003. Field: Atmospheric Optics - Atmospheric Pollution. Duration: 2020-2024
Project: Polarimetric system for identifying and classifying atmospheric aerosols. Sponsor: EAFIT University. Project number: 828-000059. Field: Atmospheric Optics - Atmospheric Pollution. Duration: 2018-2020
Project: Study and monitoring of aerosol optical properties by tropospheric lidar system. Program: Initiation into research competition. Sponsor: National fund for scientific & technological development (FONDECYT). Support Institution: Center for Optics and Photonics (CEFOP) Universidad de Concepción. Project number: 11110126. Field: Geophysics- Atmospheric Pollution. Duration: 2011-2014.
Publicaciones/Publications
Últimos años / Last Years
Yarce Botero, A., Lopez Restrepo, S., Sebastian Rodriguez, J., Valle, D., Galvez-Serna, J., Montilla, E., Botero, F., Henzing, B., Segers, A., Heemink, A., Quintero, O.L., Pinel, N. (2023). Design and Implementation of a Low-Cost Air Quality Network for the Aburra Valley Surrounding Mountains. Pollutants, 3, 150-165. https://doi.org/10.3390/pollutants3010012.
Fajardo-Zambrano, C.M., Bravo-Aranda, J.A., Granados-Muñoz, M.J., Montilla-Rosero, E., Casquero-Vera, J.A., Rejano, F., Castillo, S., Alados-Arboledas, L. (2022). Lidar and Radar Signal Simulation: Stability Assessment of the Aerosol–Cloud Interaction Index. Remote Sens., 14, 1333. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14061333.
Fortunato dos Santos Oliveira, D.C., Montilla-Rosero, E., da Silva Lopes, F.J., et al. (2021). Aerosol properties in the atmosphere of Natal/Brazil measured by an AERONET Sun-photometer. Environ Sci Pollut Res, 28, 9806–9823. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-11373-z.
Bedoya-Velásquez, A.E., Titos, G., Bravo-Aranda, J.A., Haeffelin, M., Favez, O., Petit, J.-E., Casquero-Vera, J.A., Olmo-Reyes, F.J., Montilla-Rosero, E., Hoyos, C.D., Alados-Arboledas, L., Guerrero-Rascado, J.L. (2019). Long-term aerosol optical hygroscopicity study at the ACTRIS SIRTA observatory: synergy between ceilometer and in situ measurements. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 7883-7896. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-7883-2019.
Bedoya-Velásquez, A.E., Navas-Guzmán, F., Granados-Muñoz, M.J., Titos, G., Román, R., Casquero-Vera, J.A., Ortiz-Amezcua, P., Benavent-Oltra, J.A., de Arruda Moreira, G., Montilla-Rosero, E., Hoyos, C.D., Artiñano, B., Coz, E., Olmo-Reyes, F.J., Alados-Arboledas, L., Guerrero-Rascado, J.L. (2019). Seasonal analysis of the atmosphere during five years by using microwave radiometry over a mid-latitude site. Atmospheric Research, 218, 78-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2018.11.014.
Antuña-Marrero, J., Landulfo, E., Estevan, R., Barja, B., Robock, A., Wolfram, E., Ristori, P., Clemesha, B., Zaratti, F., Forno, R., Armandillo, E., Bastidas, Á.E., de Frutos Baraja, Á.M., Whiteman, D.N., Quel, E., Barbosa, H.J., Lopes, F., Montilla-Rosero, E., Guerrero-Rascado, J.L. (2016). LALINET: The first Latin American-born regional atmospheric observational network. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00228.1.
Montilla, E., Silva, A., Jimenez, C., Guedes, A., Hoelzemann, J., Lopes, F., Landulfo, E., Saavedra, C. (2016). Identification and monitoring of atmospheric particles by multiwavelength Radar Laser in South America. In Latin America Optics and Photonics Conference (Optical Society of America, 2016), paper LTh3A.6. ISBN: 978-1-943580-16-3. https://doi.org/10.1364/LAOP.2016.LTh3A.6.
Montilla-Rosero, E., Silva, A., Jimenez, C., Saavedra, C., Hernández, R. (2016). Optical Characterization of lower tropospheric aerosols by the Southern East Pacific Lidar station (Concepcion, Chile). Journal of Aerosol Science, 92, 16–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaerosci.2015.09.008.
Guerrero-Rascado, J.L., Landulfo, E., Antuña, J.C., Barbosa, H., Barja, B., Bastidas, A., Bedoya, A., da Costa, R., Estevan, R., Forno, R., Gouveia, D., Jiménez, C., Gonçalves, E., Lopes, F., Montilla-Rosero, E., Moreira, G., Nakaema, W., Nisperuza, D., Alegria, D., Múnera, M., Otero, L., Papandrea, S., Pallota, J.V., Pawelko, E., Quel, E., Ristori, P., Ferrini, P., Salvador, J., Sánchez, M.F., Silva, A. (2016). Latin American Lidar Network (LALINET) for aerosol research: Diagnosis on network instrumentation. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 138–139, 112-120. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2016.01.001.
Barbosa, H.M.J., Ristori, D.A., Gouveia, C., Jimenez, E., Montilla, E., Mariano, G.L., Lopes, F.J.S., Silva, A., Nisperuza, D., Barja, B., Landulfo, E., Bastidas, A., Quel, E.J. (2014). The first ALINE measurements and intercomparison exercise on lidar inversion algorithms. Revista Óptica Pura y Aplicada, 47(2), 99. doi: 10.7149/OPA.47.2.99.
Mogo, S., Cachorro, V.E., Lopez, J.F., Montilla, E., Torres, B., Rodríguez, E., Bennouna, Y., de Frutos, A.M. (2012). In situ measurements of aerosol optical properties and number size distributions in a coastal region of Norway during the summer of 2008. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, 5841–5857. doi:10.5194/acp-12-5841-2012.
Montilla, E., Mogo, S., Cachorro, V., De Frutos, A.M. (2011). Continuous spectra of the aerosol absorption coefficient by an integrating-sphere spectral system. Journal of Aerosol Science, 42, 204-212. doi:10.1016/j.jaerosci.2011.01.003.
Montilla-Rosero, E., Rodríguez, E., Mogo, S., Cachorro, V., Rodrigo, R., De Frutos, A. (2011). Aerosol absorption measurements at the ALOMAR subarctic station. Revista Óptica Pura y Aplicada, 44(1), 25-31.
Barja, B., Antuña, J.C., Estevan, R., Mogo, S., Montilla, E., Cachorro, V.E., De Frutos, A.M. (2011). Atmospheric particulate matter fractions measured at Camaguey, Cuba. Preliminary Results. Optica Pura y Aplicada, 44(1), 115-125.
Datos de contacto
Correo
emontill@eafit.edu.co.
Dirección
carrera 49 número 7 sur 50, Medellín (Colombia).