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SIMONA LAGO
CURRICULUM VITAE ET STUDIORUM
12/1998: Master in PHYSICS at Università del Piemonte Orientale ”Amedeo Avogadro”. Title of graduation
thesis: “Characterisation and use of an experimental device for precise measurements of the speed of sound in
gases”.
06/1999-06/2000: Work placement at the Centro Studi E Laboratori Telecomunicazioni (CSELT – Telecom
Italia Group) of Turin on “Java card, contactless card, microprocessor smart card and bio-metric technique for
authentication”.
07/2000-01/2001: Research fellowship concerning “Optical Metrology” at Istituto Nazionale di Ottica
Applicata (INOA) of Florence.
02/2001-12/2001: Research fellowship concerning “Measurements of precision of the speed of sound in
liquids” at Istituto Elettrotecnico Nazionale “Galileo Ferraris” of Turin.
2002-2005: Assistant teacher for courses on “Physics I and II” at Politecnico of Vercelli.
04/2004-08/2004: Work placement at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology of
the Imperial College (IC) of Science, Technology and Medicine of London on “Measurements of density and
temperature of bubble and dew point using a pVT apparatus”.
03/2005: PhD in Metrology: Science and Technique of Measurements at Politecnico di Torino in
conjunction with Professor J. P. M. Trusler of the Imperial College (IC) of Science, Technology and Medicine of
London. Title of PhD thesis: “Determination of the thermodynamic properties of pure water from accuracy
measurements of the speed of sound at the temperature between 274 and 394 K and at pressures up to 90 MPa”.
05/2005-07/2005: Researcher Associate at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology
of the Imperial College (IC) of Science, Technology and Medicine of London on “Measurements of speed of
sound in humid-air”.
01/2005-12/2009: Research fellowship at the Thermodynamic Division of INRiM concerning “METROLOGIA
ACUSTICA DEI FLUIDI: METODOLOGIE SPERIMENTALI PER LA MISURA DI PRECISIONE DELLA VELOCITÀ DEL SUONO
NEI FLUIDI”.
05/2009-05/2010: Researcher Associate at the Thermodynamic Division of INRiM for the Project METREGEN
– “Metrology at cellular and molecular level for regenerative medicine”.
05/2010-11/2010: Researcher Associate at the Thermodynamic Division of INRiM for the European Project
“Metrology for Biofuels”.
Since 12/2010 to now: Researcher at INRiM.
Other
Referee of the following international journals: “Fluid Phase Equilibria”; “Journal of Chemical & Engineering
Data”; “Numerical Heat Transfer”; “International Journal of Thermophysics”; “The Journal of Chemical
Thermodynamics”; “The Journal of Chemical Physics”; “Rivista Italiana di Acustica”.
2014-2016: SECTION EDITOR della “Rivista Italiana di Acustica” on-line.
INRiM contact person in EURAMET Technical Working Group on the Thermophysical Properties since 2010.
Italian Associate Member of IAPWS since 2016.
Professional Interests and Publications
Her areas of interest centre on the thermophysical properties of fluids and mixtures. The experimental
effort is presently focused on the speed of sound in compressed liquids with the aim to provide highlyaccurate data over wide ranges of temperature, pressure and composition so to validate and improve the
thermodynamic and statistical-mechanical models. She authored more than 65 papers of which more of 20
peer reviewed papers on Metrology and Thermodynamics.
Selected Publications:
− “Speed of Sound in Pure Water at Temperatures between 274 and 394 K and Pressures up to 90 MPa”, G.
Benedetto, R. M. Gavioso, P. A. Giuliano Albo, S. Lago, D. Madonna Ripa, R. Spagnolo, International Journal of
Thermophysics, 26, n.6, p.1667-1680 (2005).
− “A Microwave-Ultrasonic cell for Sound Speed Measurements in Liquids”, G. Benedetto, R. M. Gavioso, P.
A. Giuliano Albo, S. Lago , D. Madonna Ripa, R. Spagnolo, International Journal of Thermophysics, 26, n.6,
p.1651-1665 (2005).
− “Speed of sound measurements in n-Nonane at temperatures between 294 and 394 K and pressures up to
100 MPa”, S. Lago, P. A. Giuliano Albo, D. Madonna Ripa, International Journal of Thermophysics, 27, n.4,
p.1083-1094 (2006).
− “A new method to calculate the thermodynamical properties of liquids from accurate speed-of-sound
measurements”, S. Lago, P. A. Giuliano Albo, Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, 40, p. 1558-1564 (2008).
− “Thermodynamic properties of acetone calculated from accurate experimental speed-of-sound
measurements at low temperatures and high pressures”, S. Lago, P. A. Giuliano Albo, Journal of Chemical
Thermodynamics, 41, p. 506-512 (2009).
− “A recursive equation method for the determination of density and heat capacity: Comparison between
isentropic and isothermal integration paths”, S. Lago, P. A. Giuliano Albo, Journal of Chemical
Thermodynamics, 42, p.462-465 (2010).
− “Speed of sound results in 2,3,3,3-Tetrafluoropropene (R-1234yf) and trans-1,3,3,3-Tetrafluoropropene
(R-1234ze(E)) in the temperature range of (260 to 360) K”, S. Lago, P. A. Giuliano Albo, S. Brignolo, Journal
of Chemical and Engineering Data, 56, p.161-163 (2011).
− “A novel application of Recursive Equation Method for determining thermodynamic properties of single
phase fluids from density and speed-of-sound measurements”, S. Lago, P. A. Giuliano Albo, Journal of
Chemical Thermodynamics, 58, p. 422-427 (2013).
− “High pressure density and speed-of-sound measurements in n-undecane and evidence of the effects of
near-field diffraction”, P. A. Giuliano Albo, S. Lago, R. Romeo, S. Lorefice, Journal of Chemical
Thermodynamics, 58, p. 95-100 (2013).
− “Application of acoustic methods for a non-destructive evaluation of the elastic properties of several
typologies of materials” S. Lago, S. Brignolo, R. Cuccaro, C. Musacchio, P. A. Giuliano Albo, P. Tarizzo,
Applied Acoustics, 75, p. 10-16 (2014).
− “Experimental speed-of-sound measurements of pure fatty acids methyl ester, mineral diesel and blends
in a wide range of temperature and for pressures up to 300 MPa” P. A. Giuliano Albo, S. Lago, Fuel, 115, p.
740-748 (2014).
− “Speed of sound measurements in North Atlantic Seawater and IAPSO Standard Seawater up to 70
MPa”, S. Lago, P. A. Giuliano Albo, Marine Chemistry, 177, p. 662-667 (2015).
− “Density measurements of subcooled water in the temperature range of (243 and 283) K and for pressures
up to 400 MPa”, R. Romeo, P. A. Giuliano Albo, S. Lorefice, S. Lago, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 144,
074501 (2016).
− “Compressed Liquid Speed of Sound Measurements of cis-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoroprop-1-ene (R1234ze(Z))”, S.
Lago, P. A. Giuliano Albo, J. S. Brown, International Journal of Refrigeration, 65, p. 55-59 (2016).
− “Density, viscosity and specific heat capacity of diesel blends with rapeseed and soybean oil methyl ester”,
P. A. Giuliano Albo, S. Lago, H. Wolf, R. Pagel, N. Glen, M. Clerck, P. Ballereau, Biomass and Bioenergy, 115,
p. 87-95 (2017)
Award
Winner of the “Amedeo Giacomini Prize 1999”. This prize, established by Associazione Italiana di Acustica
(AIA), is awarded every year to the author of the most interesting Thesis on physical acoustics.
Winner at Istituto di Metrologia “Gustavo Colonnetti” (IMGC) of Turin of a Research Grant on “Optical
Interferometry”.
Winner of the “Gino Sacerdote Prize 2006”. This prize, established by Associazione Italiana di Acustica (AIA),
is awarded every year to the author of the most interesting PhD Thesis on physical acoustics.
Winner of the “Italo Barducci Prize 2007” and “Italo Barducci Prize 2008”. This prize, established by
Associazione Italiana di Acustica (AIA), is awarded every year to the author of the most interesting acoustics
research.
Turin, 17 January 2017
Simona Lago