Experience

Associate Professor

Department of Civil Engineering, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile

November 2018 – Present

Teaching, research and dissemination activities related to hydrology, water resources and scientific programming.

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Associate Researcher

Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR2), Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

March 2023 – December 2025

Research line: Water Extremes

Member of the Earth Sciences Evaluation Group

National Research and Development Agency (ANID)

March 2021 – December 2024

Evaluation of research proposals in the Earth Sciences Group

Adjoint Researcher

Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR2), Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

May 2015 – December 2022

Research line: Climate Dynamics and Water Extremes

Professor

Department of Civil Engineering, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile

March 2015 – October 2018

Teaching, research and dissemination activities related to hydrology and water resources

Assistant Professor

Department of Environmental Engineering, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile

November 2013 – January 2015

Teaching, research and dissemination activities related to hydrology, water resources and scientific programming.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Water Resources Unit, Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission, Ispra, Italy.

September 2010 – September 2013

Project IES-2010-301010 Improved calibration of flood simulation models and case study research in pilot river basins.

Research Assistant

Università degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy.

September 2007 – September 2010

Project 505428 (GOCE). Workpackage COMPUTE, EU RTD FP6 Aquaterra project.

Project Engineer

Water Protection Department, Chilean Water Authority, Public Works Ministry, Santiago, Chile.

October 2005 – November 2006

Environmental Impact Assessment of small- to big-sized water resources projects.

Project Engineer

Water Protection Department, Chilean Water Authority, Public Works Ministry, Santiago, Chile.

February 2000 – September 2005

Main developer of the MAGIC hydrological model. Development and implementation of rainfall-runoff models for quantifying water availability in both gauged and ungauged catchments.

Project Engineer

Department of Civil Engineering, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile

March 1999 – January 2000

Modifications to the design of a hydrological model for surface water resources (original title is in Spanish).

Education

PhD in Environmental Engineering

Università degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy

January 2007 – July 2010

Thesis “On the effects of hydrological uncertainty in assessing the impacts of climate change on water resources”

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Diploma in Water Pollution

Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

August 2002 – October 2002

Diploma in Environmental Management

Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

November 2002 – December 2002

Civil Engineer

Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile

March 1992 – December 1998

Skills & Hobbies

Technical Skills

Hydrological modelling

R programming

Data wrangling & preprocessing

Data visualisation

Machine learning algorithms

GIS

Research & Communication

Active listening

Academic writing

Public speaking

Awards

JRC IES Excellence Award

Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission, Ispra, Italy ∙ December 2011

Support to EU Policy 2011. Given to the EFAS team in 2011.

Edgar Pino Award

Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Concepción ∙ July 1999

Best undergraduate degree thesis of the department in 1998.

Languages

100%

English Fluent

100%

Spanish Native

80%

Italian Fluent