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1 Mauricio Santillana Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Tel. office: Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Tel. cel: msantill/ Education Curriculum Vitae 9/2008 9/2010 Harvard University Postdoctoral, Earth and Planetary Sciences 9/2004 7/2008 University of Texas at Austin Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) Ph.D. Computational and Applied Mathematics 9/2001 5/2003 University of Texas at Austin, ICES M.Sc. Computational and Applied Mathematics 6/2001 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) B.S. in Physics with honors Professional Experience 9/2010 present Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Lecturer in Applied Mathematics 9/2008 9/2010 Harvard University, Center for the Environment Henson Environmental Postdoctoral Fellow 5/2009, 11/2009 Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Environmental Sciences Visiting Scientist 9/2004 7/2008 University of Texas at Austin, Center for Subsurface Modeling, ICES Research Assistant 1/2006 6/2006 Texas State University, Texas Center for Geographic Information Science Visiting Scientist 8/2003 9/2008 Research Center in Geography and Geomatics, CentroGeo, Mexico City. Research Scientist/ Consultant 9/2001 5/2003 University of Texas at Austin Research Assistant/ Teaching Assistant 8/ /2000 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, School of Sciences Teaching Assistant Honors and Awards 8/2008 8/2010 Henson Environmental Fellowship Harvard University Center for the Environment. 8/2001 5/2003 Conacyt Fellowship Mexican National Council on Science and Technology (Conacyt). 8/2001 5/2002 Pre-emptive Fellowship University of Texas, Austin. 6/2001 B.S. Degree Thesis with Honors, UNAM Fenomec-Conacyt Fellowship, (Nonlinear Mathematics and Mechanics) UNAM. 1/1997 5/1997 Honor Student Exchange Fellowship Offered by UNAM and the University of Missouri at Columbia. 7/1996 5/1999 Honor Student, UNAM. Memberships Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), US Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM), American Geophysical Union (AGU), European Geophysics Union (EGU).

2 Peer-reviewed Publications M. Santillana, M. A. Iglesias, M. P. Brenner. Loss of information due to chaotic mixing in a time-dependent flow field. An inverse modeling perspective. In preparation M. Santillana, L. Zhang, D. J. Jacob, and M. P. Brenner. Assessing numerical errors associated to operator splitting techniques in global atmospheric chemistry models. In preparation M. Santillana, P. Le Sager, D. J. Jacob, and M. P. Brenner. An adaptive reduction algorithm for efficient chemical calculations in global atmospheric chemistry models. Atmospheric Environment. Volume 44, Issue 35, pp , Nov doi: /j.atmosenv M. Santillana and C. Dawson. A local discontinuous Galerkin method for a doubly nonlinear diffusion equation arising in shallow water modeling. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. Volume 199, Issues 23-24, Apr 2010, pp , doi: /j.cma B. Zhan, O. Tapia, and M. Santillana. Estimating Small Area Population Growth Using Geographic Knowledge Guided Cellular Automata. International Journal of Remote Sensing. Volume 31, Issue 21, Jul 2010, pp , doi: / M. Santillana and C. Dawson. A numerical approach to study the properties of solutions of the diffusive wave approximation of the Shallow Water equations. Computational Geosciences. Volume 14, Issue 1, Jan 2010, pp 31-53, doi: /s R. Alonso, M. Santillana, and C. Dawson. On the diffusive wave approximation of the Shallow Water equations. European Journal of Applied Mathematics. Volume 19, Issue 05, Oct 2008, pp , doi: /s M. Santillana. PhD. Dissertation: Analysis and Numerical Simulation of the Diffusive Wave Approximation of the Shallow Water Equations. Advisor: Clint Dawson, Aug M. Santillana. Bachelor s Degree Thesis: From Classical Mechanics to Quantum Mechanics. A variational Perspective. Advisor: Pablo Padilla Longoria, Jul (In Spanish) Other Relevant Publications C. Dawson, J. Proft, V. Aizinger, M. Santillana, and C. Mirabito. Technical Report: UTBEST3D hydrodynamic model. Texas Water Development Board Project Number , 11/2007. R. Alonso, M. Santillana, and C. Dawson. Technical Report: Analysis of the diffusive wave approximation of the Shallow Water equations. ICES Report 07-19, University of Texas at Austin, 9/2007 M. Santillana and F. Serrano. Calibration and validation of a CA based model using an evolutionary algorithm for urban development simulation. A case study in Mexico City. The Ninth International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM 2005). University College London, London, UK. 6/2005.

3 Teaching Experience 9/2010 present Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Lecturer: Applied Math 205: Practical Scientific Computing (Graduate course) Applied Math 120: Applied Linear Algebra (Undergraduate course) 9/2004 7/2008 University of Texas at Austin, Aerospace Engineering Department Substitute Lecturer with Clint Dawson (Engineering graduate courses) 8/2003 9/2008 Centro de Investigación en Geografía y Geomática, CentroGeo Lecturer and student advisor (Graduate) 9/2001 5/2003 University of Texas at Austin, Mathematics Department Teaching Assistant, Mathematics 408D: Introduction to Calculus. 8/ /2000 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, School of Sciences Teaching Assistant: Differential and Integral Calculus I, Differential and Integral Calculus II, Vector Calculus I, Vector Calculus II, and Ordinary Differential Equations. Students Supervised 8/2006-8/2008 Fidel Serrano y Candela. (Geomatics, Master s degree thesis) Modeling and Simulation of the Dynamics of Land Use in Urban Environments (Co-advised with Dr. Carmen Reyes). CentroGeo. 8/2005-6/2006 Fidel Serrano y Candela. (Physics, Bachelor s degree thesis) Simulation of an Urban System Using Cellular Automata. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Reviewer for Technical Journals Computational Geosciences, Atmospheric Environment, Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena, Atmosphere, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. Selected Lectures and Major Presentations M. Santillana. Invited Speaker. Tutorial Lecture: Challenges in Global Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling. Societally Relevant Computing, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota, MN, USA 4/2011. M. Santillana. M. Brenner, Y. Rastigeyev, and D. J. Jacob. Interaction of pollution plumes and discontinuous fields in atmospheric chemistry models. 63rd Meeting of the American Physics Society Division of Fluid Dynamics, Long Beach, CA, USA 11/2010 M. Santillana. Invited Speaker. Modeling the chemical composition of the atmosphere of our planet in a changing climate: mathematical and physical challenges. University of Notre Dame, IN, USA 11/2010 M. Santillana. Invited Speaker. Alternative energies: Designing decision making support tools combining GIS and the web. Centro de Investigación en Geografía y Geomática, CentroGeo, México City, México, 8/2010. M. Santillana, P. Le Sager, D. J. Jacob, and M. Brenner. A dynamic model reduction algorithm for atmospheric chemistry models. European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria 5/2010. M. Santillana. Invited Speaker. Challenges in global atmospheric chemistry modeling. An interplay of Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry. Homage to Professor Sir Michael Berry Symposium. Centro de Geociencias, UNAM, Juriquilla, Querétaro, México 3/2010. M. Santillana, E. Tziperman, D.S. Abbot, and C. Walker. The Role of Cloud Feedbacks in the Warming of Continental Interiors in the Eocene. European Research Course on Atmospheres, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France 1/2010.

4 M. Santillana. Invited Speaker. An adaptive reduction algorithm for Global 3-D models of tropospheric chemistry. Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel 11/2009. M. Santillana. Invited Speaker. Modeling flash floods due to extreme precipitation events. The Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University, Sede Boqer Campus, Israel 11/2009. C. Reyes, M. Paras, M. Santillana, P. Sanchez, P. Lopez, and F. Lopez. Understanding Geo-spatial epidemics. Mitigating the spread of Influenza A (H1N1), Centre for Desease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada 9/2009. M. Santillana, P. Le Sager, D. J. Jacob, and M. Brenner. Model Reduction Algorithms in Chemical Pollution Transport Models. 4th GEOS-Chem Scientific and Users Meeting, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA 4/2009. F. Benjamin Zhan, O. Tapia, and M. Santillana. Estimating Small Area Population Growth Using Geographic Knowledge Guided Cellular Automata. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, USA 3/2009. M. Santillana and C. Dawson. Analytical and Numerical Properties of the Diffusive Wave Approximation of the Shallow Water Equations with Applications to Water Flow in Wetlands. XVII International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources, San Francisco, CA, USA. 7/2008. M. Santillana. Modeling Overland Flow. Center for Subsurface Modeling Industrial Affiliates Meeting, University of Texas, Austin, TX., USA. 10/2007. M. Santillana. Coupling of Surface Water and Ground Water Models. Center for Subsurface Modeling Industrial Affiliates Meeting, University of Texas, Austin, TX., USA. 10/2006. M. Santillana. Invited Speaker. Calibration of a CA Based Model Using an Evolutionary Algorithm for Urban Development Simulation. Geography Department, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX., USA. 11/2004. M. Santillana. Invited Speaker. Perspectives of Mathematical Modeling in GIS. Geography Department, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada. 11/2004. M. Santillana. Invited Speaker. Dynamics of Non-regulated Settlements in Mexico City. Nonlinear Dynamics Department, University of México City, México. 4/2004. Relevant Academic Workshops as a Participant 1/2010 Winter School (5 weeks): European Research Course on Atmospheres, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France 5/2009 Workshop (9 days): Fundamental Problems in Climate Dynamics. Princeton Center for Theoretical Sciences, Princeton University, NJ. USA 1/2009 Winter School (1 week): Reducing the Uncertainty in the Prediction of Global Warming. Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Jerusalem, Israel 12/2008 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. USA 1/2008 SIAM Minisymposium participant (1 week): From Global Predictions to Local Action, and Environmental Mathematics. Joint Mathematics Meeting, San Diego, CA. USA 8/2007 Advances in Scientific Computing. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. USA. 7/2005 8th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics. Austin, TX., USA. 6/2002 Summer School (3 weeks): Jornadas de Introducción a los Sistemas Dinámicos. Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña. Barcelona, Spain 1/2003 7th Annual Workshop on Mexico City Air Quality. (1 week) Mexico City, Mexico 8/2000 Fall school (2 weeks): Mathematical Biology. Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas. Guanajuato, Mexico

5 Spoken Languages Service Spanish, English, and French. 6/2009-6/2010 Harvard University Mexican Association, FAS Representative. 8/2002-5/2003 USACM student chapter, University of Texas, Vice-president.