Curriculum Vitae - ELENA ORLANDO
Education and training
2005-2008: International Max Planck Research School fellow. IMPRS Certificate 1998-2004: Master degree in Physics at Trieste University (Italy) Academic and Research experience 2013-present: Staff Academic Research Associate at Stanford University (HEPL/KIPAC). 2010–2013: Postdoctoral Research Associate at Stanford University (HEPL/KIPAC). 2008–2010: Postdoctoral Research Associate at Max-Plank-Institut fuer extraterrestrische
Physik (MPE, Garching, Germany). Oct 2008: PhD at Technische Universitaet Muenchen and Max-Plank-Institut fuer
extraterrestrische Physik (MPE, Germany).
2003-2004: Fellowship (Leonardo da Vinci European Programme) at Institute fuer
Informatik Julius-Maximilians-University (Wuerzburg Germany). Teaching and supervising experience Supervisor of F. Guidi (INFN-SLAC summer student exchange program) Supervisor of P. Harrington (senior student in the summer student program) Since 2015: Mentoring PhD students and PostDocs at the AWIS (Association of Women in
Science at Stanford University) 2007-2008: Teaching Assistant for the 3rd and 4th year students of the Technische Universitaet
Muenchen (Germany) for two semesters (84 hours). Tutor in mathematics and physics Publication list Author of 255 publications (218 peer-reviewed), more than 23,600 citations (ADS), h factor = 88.
Positions of international responsibility - 2013 - 2015: Scientific Coordinator of the Diffuse and Molecular Clouds Working Group of the
Fermi-LAT Collaboration.
- 2011 - 2013: Scientific Coordinator of the Solar System Tools Working Group of the FermiLAT Collaboration. - Reviewer for the NASA guest investigator program Fermi GI
-­‐ Reviewer for the NASA the Astrophysics Data Analysis Program (ADAP)
- Reviewer for international journals (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; The
Astrophysical Journal) Successful Scientific Proposals as Science PI (~800,000 USD) - Astrophysics Data Analysis Program 2015 (ADAP) - Cosmic Rays, Magnetic Fields and Diffuse
Emissions: Combining Observations from Radio to Gamma Rays - Fermi cycle 8 - Linking LAT Gamma-Ray and Radio Observations of the Galactic Diffuse
Emission Produced by Cosmic Rays - Fermi cycle 5 – Constraining models of our Galaxy, diffuse gamma-ray emission and cosmic-ray
propagation using Fermi-LAT and Planck - Fermi cycle 2 – Study of the extended emission around the Sun due to inverse Compton scattering
of cosmic-ray electrons on solar photons - AGILE AO1 – Gamma-ray emission from star-forming regions (observation time and data right)
- AGILE AO2 – Gamma-ray emission from star-forming regions (observation time and data right)
Successful Scientific Proposals as Co-I - ROSES-2016 APRA - Modeling of Cosmic-Ray Propagation and Galactic Diffuse Gamma-Ray
Emission in Support of Current and Future NASA Missions - Fermi cycle 7 ‒ Disentangling dark matter gamma-ray signal from astrophysical foregrounds:
combining searches in a public framework - Fermi cycle 5 – Emission from the quiescent Sun: a study and a tool
- Fermi cycle 5 – On the nature of the Fermi-LAT unassociated Galactic sources
- Fermi cycle 4 – Study of the gamma-ray emission from solar system bodies - INTEGRAL A09 – Probing relativistic electrons in the Galaxy and its halo (3Ms observation time
and data right) - INTEGRAL A08 – Probing relativistic electrons in the Galaxy and its halo (3Ms observation time
and data right) - AGILE A01 – AGILE GRID observations of Unidentified EGRET sources likely related to
supernova remnants (observation time and data right) - Fermi cycle 2 - Multi-wavelength Study of the Diffuse Emission from Cosmic-Ray Propagation in
the Magellanic Clouds and M31 - ROSES-2008 APRA – Modeling of Cosmic-Ray Propagation and Galactic Diffuse Gamma-Ray
Emission in Support of Current and Future NASA Missions - INTEGRAL A07 – Probing relativistic electrons in the Galaxy and its halo (3Ms observation time
and data right) International awards 2016: Marie-Curie fellowship (declined)
2014: Marie-Curie fellowship (declined) 2015: Invited to present a poster to the Italian embassy in Washington for the award ISSNAF Italian Scientists and Scholars of North America Foundation “for early stage investigators working
in North America whose commitment to their discipline of study is innovative, impactful and
honors their country of origin.”
2013: “Abilitazione nazionale tornata 2013”: qualified to be Associate Professor in Italy, area
02/A1 Fisica Sperimentale delle Interazioni Fondamentali 2011: Bruno Rossi price "Bill Atwood, Peter Michelson, and the Fermi Gamma Ray Space
Telescope LAT team" 2010: MultiDark fellowship (declined for accepting the offer at Stanford) 2010: Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales, CNES fellowship (declined for accepting the offer at
Stanford) 2006: Marie-Curie early stage Training Site fellow 2003–2004: Leonardo da Vinci European fellow Participation to international collaborations Athena Consortium (working group 2.4 - "The close environment of SMBH") Member of the e-AstroGam Consortium. Member of the GalpBayes project: Bayesian approach to investigate the GALPROP propagation
parameter space. Member of the Continuum HAlos in Nearby Galaxies - an EVLA Survey (CHANG-ES)
consortium Member of the Planck LFI consortium
Member of the Fermi-LAT collaboration Developer member of the GALPROP team (code for cosmic-ray transport and diffuse emissions) Member of the GRIPS collaboration (Gamma-ray burst investigation) Ex-Member of the AtmoCube project in Trieste (international CubeSat) Outreach activities - “Tage der offenen Tuer am MPE” (open house). Max-Planck-Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik
(MPE) in Garching (Germany), 2005, 2006, 2009 - “Girls’ day”, an initiative for incentivizing young girls to science. Max-Planck-Institut fuer
extraterrestrische Physik (MPE) in Garching (Germany), 2008, 2009, 2010 Engaged in diversity
2016: Co-PI of an international program and proposal submitted to the 100&Change call of the
McArthur Foundation titled Woman and Minorities in STEM (100M USD)
2015-present: Mentoring PhD students and PostDocs at the AWIS (Association of Women in
Science at Stanford University) Service Work - Developer of software publicly released to the scientific community: - GALPROP code (www. galprop.stanford.edu) - Solar Template Tools released at the FSSC. - StellarICs (http://sourceforge.net/projects/stellarics/) - Duty scientist: data quality monitoring with Fermi-LAT Further experience and certificates March 2016: Undergraduate Teaching - Syllabus and Content (2h) - Stanford University April 2015: Workshop on the JMP statistical discovery software, Stanford University Jan 2014 - ...: Member of SLIC (Stanford Leaders in Communication) training (1 hour each week) Stanford University Jan 15-18 2014: Workshop “Communicating science” by Alan Aldan, KIPAC Stanford University
(18 hours) Apr-May 2012: “Mentoring In Research Workshop" (7h), Stanford University Apr-May 2012: "Advanced English Skills for Non-Native Speakers III: Oral Presentation" (10
sessions of 2.5h each) Stanford University Apr 2012: "Accent Reduction for Non-Native Speakers of English" (12h) Stanford university Feb 2012: “Getting funding and how to write a grant”, (2h) Stanford University Jan-Mar 2012: “Enhanced Web Site Design” (10 sessions of 2.5h each) Stanford University Oct 2011:“Advanced English Skills for Non-Native Speakers:writing presentation” (3 sessions of
2h) Stanford Aug 2011: “Academic and Professional Writing”, (4 sessions for 2h each) Stanford University Hardware experience: CubeSat project (UWE-1):
- Designed the procedure for testing Litium batteries. - Measured the efficiency of triple-junction solar cells. - Measured capacity of Litium batteries (model Saft MP 144350) using the “pulse” MAX1879
charger AtomoCube project: - Designed and analyzed vibrations and stress tests, and studied characteristics of the structure using
dedicated software as SolidWorks. - Analyzed and designed the mission and space environment of AtmoCube. - Studied and designed the batteries/solar cells system. MERLIN project, car-like mobile robot: - Developed and tuned a PI speed controller as well as a distance controller on basis of Fuzzy logic.
INVITED talks at conferences • SciNeGHE, “High and very-­‐high energy gamma-­‐ray observations of the Milky Way”, Pisa Oct 2016 (review talk) • Symposium High and Very-High Energy Gamma-ray Astronomy: status and future at
EWASS, “Insights on cosmic rays and interstellar emission from gamma ray observations” Athens
July 2016 (review talk) • Workshop on the Future of Dark Matter Astro-Particle Physics “Interstellar medium from
radio to gamma energies", Trieste 8-11 Oct 2013 • 14th ICATPP Conference on Astroparticle, Particle, Space Physics and Detectors for
Physics Applications “What gamma rays with Fermi-LAT tell us about cosmic rays”, Plenary
session, Como 23-27 Sep 2013
•
PACIFIC 2012 Symposium on Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, “Interstellar radio
emission and its implication for cosmic rays and magnetic fields”, 1-7 Sep 2012, Moorea
• SciNeGHE, “Cosmic rays, gamma rays and synchrotron radiation from the Galaxy”, 20-22
June 2012, Lecce • SciNeGHE, “Local gamma-ray sources” Sep 9th 2010, Trieste, Italy (review talk) • High Energy Workshop “Synchrotron emission and magnetic fields”, Garching, Apr 23rd,
2009 • CESR Toulouse, “Synchrotron and magnetic fields with GALPROP”, GLAST-WMAPPLANCK Workshop, 10 April 2008 • UHECR and Magnetic field Workshop, “Synchrotron and magnetic fields with GALPROP”,
Ringberg 11-14 Feb 2009 INVITED seminars: • MPI Munich colloquium, “Cosmic rays and Galactic diffuse radiation from radio through Xray to gamma-ray energies”, June 26th 2012 • Space Sciences Laboratory Colloquium Berkeley, “Cosmic rays and Galactic diffuse
radiation from radio through X-ray to gamma-ray energies”, 8 June 2012. • INAF Bologna, “Cosmic rays in the Galaxy” Nov 15, 2012. • Tea talk seminar, “The quiet Sun in gamma rays”, Jun 14th 2011, Stanford University • CNES, Paris “Cosmic-ray propagation in the Galaxy”, Mar 15th, 2010 • Cluster of excellence, Garching, “Quiet Gamma-ray emission from the Moon and the Sun
with Fermi/LAT”, May 2009 • GLAST Science lunch, “Galactic and solar gamma-ray emission: theory, results from
EGRET and prospects for GLAST”, Jan 24th, 2008, SLAC, USA • Gamma-ray workshop, “Gamma-ray emission from the solar halo and disk: a study with
EGRET data”, Feb 16th, 2008, Ringberg, Germany • MPE Garching “AtmoCube: analysis and design of a pico-satellite in order to study the
Earth’s atmosphere”, Feb 15th, 2005 Contributed talks at conferences • “Recent results and coming improvements of the GALPROP cosmic-­‐ray propagation code” Cosmic Ray Origin -­‐beyond the standard models, Cadore (Italy) Sep 2016 • “Latest applications and results with the GALPROP cosmic-­‐ray propagation code” 25th edition of the European Cosmic Ray Symposium, Torino Sep 2016 • “Diffuse emissions from radio through microwaves to gamma rays”, 28th Texas Symposium
on Relativistic Astrophysics, Geneva, Switzerland, Dec 13 to 18, 2015 • “Cosmic rays from multi-wavelength observations of the Galactic diffuse emission”, Sep
2015, Torino (Italy), TAUP 2015 • “Multi-wavelength constraints on cosmic-ray leptons in the Galaxy”, July 2015, The Hague
(The Netherlands), ICRC • CHANG-ES workshop “Cosmic rays and magnetic fields using radio observations and
multiwavelength constraints”, Kingston July 2014 • “Cosmic-ray leptons, magnetic fields and interstellar synchrotron emission” Brazil, July
2013, ICRC • Orlando, E. “Synchrotron radiation, magnetic fields and cosmic rays” Planck Conference
2012, Bologna, Feb 2012 • “Modeling the synchrotron emission in the Galaxy”, Aug 16th, 2011, ICRC • Munich, TAUP “Cosmic rays, gamma rays and synchrotron radiation from the Galaxy”, Sep
7th 2011 • “Fermi-LAT Observation of the Solar Gamma-ray Emission”, American Astronomical
Society, AAS Meeting, Miami, May 2010 • “Fermi-LAT Observation of the Gamma-ray Emission from the Sun”, 2009 Fermi
Symposium, 2-5 Nov Washington • “Cosmic-ray electrons, synchrotron and magnetic fields in the Galaxy”, Contribution to the
31st ICRC, Lodz, Poland, July 2009 • “The extended inverse-Compton gamma-ray emission from the Sun seen by EGRET”, ICRC
2007, Merida, Mexico Poster presentations (first author only) • “Cosmic rays and their modulation in the heliosphere by studying gamma rays from the Sun
with Fermi-LAT: updated models” 15th HEAD meeting, Naples FL • “Galactic synchrotron radiation from radio to microwaves, and its relation to cosmic-ray
propagation models: past, present and future” 15th HEAD meeting, Naples FL • “Galactic synchrotron radiation in the context of cosmic-ray propagation and gamma rays”,
Planck conference, Ferrara Dec 2014 • “Cosmic-ray propagation models: 3D magnetic fields and interstellar emission in radio”,
Fermi symposium, Nagoya Oct 2014 • “Cosmic rays as traced by interstellar emission at Fermi-LAT energies and radio
frequencies”, Fermi symposium, Nagoya Oct 2014 • “Determining the Spectrum of Cosmic Rays from the Diffuse Galactic Gamma-ray
Emissivity” Brazil, July 2013, ICRC • “StellarICs: Stellar and solar Inverse Compton emission package” Brazil, July 2013, ICRC • “Accounting for the Sun and the Moon in Fermi-LAT Analysis” Brazil, July 2013, ICRC • SciNeGHE, “A software package for Stellar and solar Inverse Compton emission:
StellarICs” 20-22 June 2012, Lecce • “Fermi-LAT observations of the two components of the quiet solar gamma-ray emission”,
Aug 16th, 2011, ICRC • “The quiet Sun with Fermi/LAT”, Fermi symposium, Rome, May 2011 • “Cosmic Rays And Magnetic Fields Constrained By Synchrotron And Gamma Rays”,
HEAD Meeting, Hawaii, March 2010 • “Cosmic rays and magnetic fields constrained by synchrotron and gamma rays”, 2009 Fermi
Symposium, 2-5 Nov Washington • “Fermi-LAT Observation of Quiescent Solar Emission”, Contribution to the 31st ICRC,
Lodz, Poland, July 2009 • “Gamma-ray Emission from the Sun: A Study with EGRET Data and Perspectives for
GLAST”, American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting 2009 • “Inverse-Compton emission from halos around stars”, ICRC 2007, Merida, Mexico • “GLAST detectability of gamma-ray emission from photon fields of luminous stars”, The
First GLAST Science Symposium', Stanford 2007 • “The extended solar emission, an analysis of EGRET data,” The First GLAST Science
Symposium', Stanford 2007 • “Gamma-rays from halos around stars and the Sun”, 'The multimessenger approach to
unidentified gamma-ray sources', Barcelona July 2006 Technical skills Operating systems: Windows, UNIX, Linux, AFS (Andrew File System), MAC/OS Programming languages: C/C++, MatLab, Mathematica, FORTRAN, shell scripting, HTML,
Python, ROOT Specific software tools: HEASOFT, Fermi Science Tools, GALPROP, STK, SPENVIS,
SolidWorks, and many common software (e.g. Excel, Word, Power Point, Kino)