InterPore is pleased to announce that Dr. Ilenia Battiato has been selected as the recipient of the InterPore Award for Porous Media Research for her outstanding contributions to InterPore.

Dr. Battiato is Associate Professor of Energy Science and Engineering at Stanford University and leads the Multiscale Physics in Energy Systems Laboratory. Dr. Battiato’s research focuses on understanding, modeling, and predicting complex multiscale multiphysics systems with cross-cutting applications in the energy landscape ranging from electrochemical storage to CO2 sequestration and H2 storage in the subsurface. She uses a combination of rigorous mathematical theories, numerical computing and symbolic deduction to develop advanced multiscale multiphysics models. 

Dr. Battiato obtained a MS in environmental engineering with highest honors from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Subsequently she obtained a MS in Engineering Physics from the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department at University of California at San Diego  as well as her Ph.D. in Engineering Science with spec/computational sciences. She held a postdoctoral position at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Goettingen, Germany. 

Prior to joining Stanford, she was faculty in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Clemson University first, and then at San Diego State University (SDSU) with a joint appointment at the SDSU Computational Science Research Center. She received the DOE Young Investigator award in Basic Energy Sciences for her innovative work on multiscale models in porous media, and has been awarded the Frederick Emmons Terman Fellowship at Stanford University. She is  the current elected vice-chair of the Gordon Research Conference for Flow and Transport in Permeable media alongside Dr. Inga Berre.

Please join InterPore in congratulating Dr. Battiato on this well-deserved recognition of her exceptional impact on porous media research.