Elena Montilla Rosero

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.​

• Lidar.
• Instrumentación óptica atmosférica / Atmospheric optical instrumentation.
• Espectrometría y polarimetría atmosférica / Spectrometry and atmospheric polarimetry.
• Polución de aire / Air pollution.
• Aerosoles atmosféricos / Atmospheric aerosols.​​

Ú​ltimos 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. Design and Implementation of a Low-Cost Air Quality Network for the Aburra Valley Surrounding Mountains. Pollutants 2023, 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. Lidar and Radar Signal Simulation: Stability Assessment of the Aerosol–Cloud Interaction Index. Remote Sens. 2022, 14, 1333. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14061333.
  
• Fortunato dos Santos Oliveira, D.C., Montilla-Rosero, E., da Silva Lopes, F.J. et al. Aerosol properties in the atmosphere of Natal/Brazil measured by an AERONET Sun-photometer. Environ Sci Pollut Res 28, 9806–9823 (2021). 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., and Guerrero-Rascado, J. L.: 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, 2019.
• Andrés Esteban Bedoya-Velásquez (Colombia), Francisco Navas-Guzmán (España), Gregori de Arruda Moreira (Brasil), Roberto Román(España), Alberto Cazorla(España), Pablo Ortiz-Amezcua(España), José Antonio Benavent-Oltra(España), Lucas Alados-Arboledas(España), Francisco José Olmo-Reyes(España), Inmaculada Foyo-Moreno(España), Elena Montilla-Rosero, Carlos D. Hoyos (Colombia), Juan Luis Guerrero-Rascado(España). Seasonal analysis of the atmosphere during five years by using microwave radiometry over a mid-latitude site. Atmospheric Research, 218, 2019. Pages 78-89, ISSN 0169-8095, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2018.11.014.
• 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., and Guerrero-Rascado, J. L.: Hygroscopic growth study in the framework of EARLINET during the SLOPE I campaign: synergy of remote sensing and in situ instrumentation, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 7001-7017, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-7001-2018, 2018.
• · Antuña-Marrero, J., E. Landulfo, R. Estevan, B. Barja, A. Robock, E. Wolfram, P. Ristori, B. Clemesha, F. Zaratti, R. Forno, E. Armandillo, Á.E. Bastidas, Á.M. de Frutos Baraja, D.N. Whiteman, E. Quel, H.J. Barbosa, F. Lopes, E. Montilla-Rosero, and J.L. Guerrero-Rascado. LALINET: The first Latin American-born regional atmospheric observational network. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 2016. doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00228.1.
• E. Montilla, A. Silva, C. Jimenez, A. Guedes, J. Hoelzemann, F. Lopes, E. Landulfo, and C. Saavedra, "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.
• E. Montilla-Rosero, A. Silva, C. Jimenez, C. Saavedra, R. Hernández. Optical Characterization of lower tropospheric aerosols by the Southern East Pacific Lidar station (Concepcion, Chile). Journal of Aerosol Science, 92, 16–26, 2016. ISSN: 0021-8502 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaerosci.2015.09.008.
• J.L Guerrero-Rascado, E. Landulfo, J.C Antuña, H. Barbosa, B. Barja, A. Bastidas, A. Bedoya, R. da Costa, R. Estevan, R. Forno, D. Gouveia, C. Jiménez, E. Gonçalves, F. Lopes, E. Montilla-Rosero, G. Moreira, W. Nakaema, D. Nisperuza, D. Alegria, M. Múnera, L. Otero, S. Papandrea, J.V Pallota, E. Pawelko, E. Quel, P. Ristori, P. Ferrini, J. Salvador, M.F Sánchez, A. Silva, Latin American Lidar Network (LALINET) for aerosol research:
• Diagnosis on network instrumentation, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Volumes 138–139, February 2016, Pages 112-120, ISSN 1364-6826, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2016.01.001.
• H.M.J. Barbosa, Ristori, D.A. Gouveia, C. Jimenez, E. Montilla, G.L. Mariano, E., F.J.S. Lopes, A. Silva, D. Nisperuza, B. Barja, E. Landulfo, A. Bastidas, E.J. Quel. The first ALINE measurements and intercomparison exercise on lidar inversion algorithms. Revista Óptica Pura y Aplicada, Special Edition for VII Workshop on Lidar measurements in Latin America. doi: 10.7149/OPA.47.2.99. Vol.47 - Num.2. June, 2014.
• S. Mogo, V. E. Cachorro, J. F. Lopez, E. Montilla, B. Torres, E. Rodríguez, Y. Bennouna, and A. M. de Frutos. 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, 2012, doi:10.5194/acp-12-5841-2012.
• E. Montilla, S. Mogo, V. Cachorro, A.M. De Frutos. 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, 2011.
• E. Montilla-Rosero, E. Rodríguez, S. Mogo, V. Cachorro, R. Rodrigo, A. De Frutos. Aerosol absorption measurements at the ALOMAR subarctic station. Revista Óptica Pura y Aplicada, Vol. 44, No.1, pp. 25-31, 2011.
• Boris Barja, Juan Carlos Antuña, Rene Estevan, Sandra Mogo, Elena Montilla, Victoria E. Cachorro, A. M. de Frutos. Atmospheric particulate matter fractions measured at Camaguey, Cuba. Preliminary Results. Optica Pura y Aplicada 44(1), 115-125, 2011.

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