Professional Background

Chiara Saggese received her PhD in Industrial Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from Politecnico of Milan in 2015. After working as a postdoctoral fellow on experiments and kinetic modeling of real-fuel combustion chemistry and emissions at Stanford University, she joined the Reaction Dynamics Group in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2019. Her research focuses on developing gas phase reaction kinetics of fossil and renewable fuels for combustion applications and emission predictions. She is also studying particle formation in high temperature environments, such as detonations and wildfires.

Research Interests

• Gas-phase reaction kinetics of hydrocarbon fuels, oxygenated fuels, and energetic materials
• Soot
• Multiscale modeling
• Flame synthesis of nanomaterials
• Aerosol science

PhD, Industrial Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, 2015

MS, Chemical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, 2011

BS, Chemical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, 2009

B. Koroglu, M. Finko, C. Saggese, S. Wagnon, S. Foster, D. McGuffin, D. Lucas, T.P. Rose, J.C. Crowhurst, D.G. Weisz, H.B. Radousky, D. Curreli, K.B. Knight, 2022. The influence of cooling rate on condensation of iron, aluminum, and uranium oxide nanoparticles. Journal of Aerosol Science 162 (2022), p.105959.

R. Fang, C. Saggese, S. W. Wagnon, A. B. Sahu, H. J. Curran, W. J. Pitz, C-J. Sung, Effect of nitric oxide and exhaust gases on gasoline surrogate autoignition: iso-octane experiments and modeling, Combust. Flame 236 (2022) 111807.

C. Saggese, C. M. Thomas, S. W. Wagnon, G. Kukkadapu, S. Cheng, D. Kang, S.S. Goldsborough, W.J. Pitz, An improved detailed chemical kinetic model for C3-C4 linear and iso-alcohols and their blends with gasoline at engine-relevant conditions, Proc. Combust. Inst. 38 (2021), 415-423.

C. Saggese, K. Wan, R. Xu, Y. Tao, C.T. Bowman, J.W. Park, T. Lu, H. Wang, A physics-based approach to modeling real-fuel combustion chemistry–V. NOx formation from a typical Jet A, Combustion and Flame 212 (2020) 270-278.

C. Liu, A.V. Singh, C. Saggese, Q. Tang, D. Chen, K. Wan, M. Vinciguerra, M. Commodo, G. De Falco, P. Minutolo, A. D’Anna, H. Wang, Flame-formed carbon nanoparticles exhibit quantum dot behaviors, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116(26) (2019) 12692-12697.

C. Saggese, A.V. Singh, X. Xue, C. Chu, M.R. Kholghy, T. Zhang, J. Camacho, J. Giaccai, J.H. Miller, M.J. Thomson, C-J. Sung, H. Wang, The Distillation Curve and Sooting Propensity of a Typical Jet Fuel, Fuel 235 (2019) 350-362.

C. Saggese, A. Cuoci, A. Frassoldati, S. Ferrario, J. Camacho, H. Wang, T. Faravelli, Probe Effects in Soot Sampling from a Burner-Stabilized Stagnation Flame, Combustion and Flame, 167 (2016) 184-197.

C. Saggese, S. Ferrario, J. Camacho, A. Cuoci, A. Frassoldati, E. Ranzi, H. Wang, T. Faravelli, Kinetic Modeling of Particle Size Distribution of Soot in a Premixed Burner-Stabilized Stagnation Ethylene Flame, Combustion and Flame 162 (2015) 3356-3369.

• 2021 Global Security award from E Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
• 2017, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Seal of Excellence by the European Commission for the research project proposal “CarboNanoMat” (Synthesis and Analysis of Carbon NanoDots Via Cross-Disciplinary Experiments and Modelling), within the call H2020-MSCA-IF-2017.
• 2015, Swiss Government Excellence Postdoctoral Scholarship for postdoctoral research in EPFL.
• 2015, PhD award 2015 given by the scientific committee of the PhD in Industrial Chemistry and Chemical Engineering XXVII cycle at Politecnico di Milano.