Experience

Universidad de La Frontera

• Chile
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Assistant Professor

  • Aug 2017 - Present



University of Massachusetts Amherst

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant Professor Department of Civil an Environmental Engineering

  • Feb 2017 - Aug 2017

• Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Sep 2015 - Jan 2017



The University of Texas at Austin

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Researcher

  • Aug 2014 - Aug 2015

  Working in the National Flood Interoperability Experiment project. This project intends to generate a National framework in the US that allows the prediction of stream flow in a 5 days windows using runoff calculated using land surface model as forcing inputs. The goals of the projects are to facilitate methodologies and information that allows to improve flood emergency response in a local and federal level. The project is lead by the academic community and the National Weather Service. Among the collaborators there are academic, public and private institutions.

• Graduate Research Assistant

  • Apr 2011 - Jul 2014

  Graduate student in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering in University of Texas at Austin. Lately I have been working in Glacier Lakes Outburst Modeling (GLOF) using an unsteady one dimensional model (HecRAS) and a 2 dimensional model which include debris flow (Flo-2D). Our field studies are located in Palcacocha lake in the Cordillera Blanca in Peru and the Everest mountain region in Nepal. Flood wave routing simulation in 2D and moraine dam break simulation are part of our research.Also I am interested in the use of ground penetrating radar (GPR) equipment in debris cover glacier and moraines.Finally I am interested in risk assessment analysis of GLOF identify hazards and how they interact with the different levels of vulnerability and resilience.



Microsoft

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Researcher

  • Aug 2014 - Sep 2014

  Coordinate the collaboration with e sciences department at Microsoft and The University of Texas at Austin. The goals were to analyze strategies for managing the information that will be generated in the National Flood Interoperability Experiment and how the project can be benefit from the tools that Microsoft Research develops and the use of the Cloud services. Coordinate the collaboration with e sciences department at Microsoft and The University of Texas at Austin. The goals were to analyze strategies for managing the information that will be generated in the National Flood Interoperability Experiment and how the project can be benefit from the tools that Microsoft Research develops and the use of the Cloud services.



Direccion General de Aguas

• Técnico del Departamente de Administración y Recursos Hídricos

  • Mar 2007 - Dec 2008

  Encargado de la resolución de solicitudes de derechos de aguas en la región de Valparaiso y del Bio Bio Encargado de la resolución de solicitudes de derechos de aguas en la región de Valparaiso y del Bio Bio