is a Civil Engineer and PhD in Environmental Engineering, with more than 15 years of experience in water resources. In particular: development, implementation and assessment of hydrological models. I`m currently working as a full-time professor at the of the , Temuco, Chile Current research interests Use of satellite-based estimates of precipitation for drought monitoring and hydrological modelling. Spatio-temporal analysis of droughts in data-scarce areas. Global optimisation applied to hydrological models (PSO, DE, SCE-UA, SCEM, DREAM). Global sensitivity analysis of hydrological models (Sobol’s, Morris). Use of open-source tools for management and analysis of hydro-meteorological data (R, Qgis, Grass). Development of R packages for hydrological analysis. ©