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Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini

Associate Professor

Universidad de La Frontera

Temuco, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Hydrometeorological hazards; extreme events; drought analysis and monitoring; hydrological modelling; global optimisation; development of open-source software for hydrological applications; water resources; hydrology; precipitation

Educación

  •  Doctoral School in Environmental Engineering, UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TRENTO. Italia, 2010
  •  Civil Engineer, UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION. Chile, 1999

Experiencia Académica

  •   Assistant Professor Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION

    Faculty of Environmental Sciences

    Concepción, Chile

    2013 - 2014

  •   Professor Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE LA FRONTERA

    Faculty of Engineering and Sciences

    Temuco, Chile

    2015 - 2018

  •   Associate Professor Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE LA FRONTERA

    Faculty of Engineering and Sciences

    Temuco, Chile

    2018 - At present

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Assistant Professor Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCIÓN

    Concepción, Chile

    2013 - 2014

  •   Postdoctoral Researcher Full Time

    Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Comission

    Ispra, Italia

    2010 - 2013

  •   Research Assistant Full Time

    UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI TRENTO

    Trento, Italia

    2007 - 2010

  •   Project engineer Full Time

    Dep. de Conservación y Protección de los Recursos Hídricos, D.G.A., Min. Obras Públicas

    Santiago, Chile

    2005 - 2006

  •   Project engineer Full Time

    Departamento de Estudios y Planificación, Dirección General de Aguas, Ministerio de Obras Públicas

    Santiago, Chile

    2000 - 2005

  •   Project engineer Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCIÓN

    Concepción, Chile

    1999 - 1999

  •   Professor Full Time

    Universidad de La Frontera

    Temuco, Chile

    2015 - 2017

  •   Adjoint Researcher Part Time

    Center for Climate and Resilience Research

    Santiago, Chile

    2015 - At present

  •   Associate Professor Full Time

    Universidad de La Frontera

    Temuco, Chile

    2018 - At present

Formación de Capital Humano


Undergraduate:

*) Marinao Rivas, R. (2020). "Desarrollo de un modelo hidrológico superficial acoplado a un modelo subterráneo para la Cuenca del Río Lluta, Región de Arica y Parinacota". Trabajo para optar al título de Ingeniero Civil. Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile.

*) Burgos Victoriano, V. (2020). "Evaluación del impacto del cambio climático en los caudales de salida de una subcuenca del Río Trancura, en base a proyecciones climáticas globales de alta y súper alta resolución". Trabajo para optar al título de Ingeniero Civil. Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile.

*) Soto Escobar, C. J. (2019). “Construcción de curvas Intensidad-Duración-Frecuencia de alta resolución espacial para la zona Centro-Sur de Chile”. Trabajo para optar al título de Ingeniero Civil. Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile.

*) Henríquez Jara, B. I. (2019). “Propuesta de actualización al marco regulatorio chileno de gestión de aguas servidas y aguas lluvia”. Trabajo para optar al título de Ingeniero Civil. Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile.

*) Chiguailaf Chiguailaf, C. R. (2019). “Creación de un prototipo de sistema de alerta temprana para inundaciones a escala diaria para la subcuenca del Río Trancura en Curarrehue, región de La Araucanía”. Trabajo para optar al título de Ingeniero Civil. Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile.

MSc:

*) Vergara González, Valeria (2023). "Efecto del cambio en la composición y configuración del paisaje en la productividad de los ecosistemas forestales, en una cuenca mediterránea de Chile central". Magíster en Gestión Territorial de Recursos Naturales. Escuela de Posgrado, Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile. Co-supervisor. Supervisor: Dr. Mauricio Galleguillos T.

*) Hann, Hamish (2017). Hydrological evaluation of satellite-based rainfall estimates for drought management in the Imperial River Basin, Chile. Cologne University of Applied Sciences. Köln, Germany. Co-supervisor. Supervisor: Dr. Lars Ribbe.

*) McNamara, Ian (2017). Drought risk management solutions using water allocation modelling for climate change and irrigation development scenarios within the data-scarce Imperial River Basin (Chile). Cologne University of Applied Sciences. Köln, Germany. Co-supervisor. Supervisor: Dr. Lars Ribbe.


Premios y Distinciones

  •   Premio Edgar Pino Barrueto

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION

    Chile, 1998

    Otorgado a la mejor memoria de título del año 1997 en el Departamento de Ingeniería Civil de la Universidad de Concepción en Concepción.


 

Article (26)

On the timescale of drought indices for monitoring streamflow drought considering catchment hydrological regimes
HESS Opinions: The unsustainable use of groundwater conceals a ‘Day Zero’
Panta Rhei benchmark dataset: socio-hydrological data of paired events of floods and droughts
A coupled modeling approach to assess the effect of forest policies in water provision: A biophysical evaluation of a drought-prone rural catchment in south-central Chile
The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management
Disentangling the effect of future land use strategies and climate change on streamflow in a Mediterranean catchment dominated by tree plantations
How well do gridded precipitation and actual evapotranspiration products represent the key water balance components in the Nile Basin?
On the selection of precipitation products for the regionalisation of hydrological model parameters
Bias Correction of Global High-Resolution Precipitation Climatologies Using Streamflow Observations from 9372 Catchments
Modelling water resources for planning irrigation development in drought-prone southern Chile
RF-MEP: A novel Random Forest method for merging gridded precipitation products and ground-based measurements
Particle swarm optimization for the estimation of surface complexation constants with the geochemical model PHREEQC-3.1.2
Validation of Cryogenic Vacuum Extraction of Pore Water from Volcanic Soils for Isotopic Analysis
Temporal and spatial evaluation of satellite rainfall estimates over different regions in Latin-America
The CAMELS-CL dataset: Catchment attributes and meteorology for large sample studies-Chile dataset
Temporal and spatial evaluation of satellite-based rainfall estimates across the complex topographical and climatic gradients of Chile
The 2010-2015 megadrought in central Chile: impacts on regional hydroclimate and vegetation
Assessing the role of uncertain precipitation estimates on the robustness of hydrological model parameters under highly variable climate conditions
Forestry development, water scarcity, and the Mapuche protest for environmental justice in Chile
Comparison of Stationary and Dynamic Conceptual Models in a Mountainous and Data-Sparse Catchment in the South-Central Chilean Andes
Particle Swarm Optimization for inverse modeling of solute transport in fractured gneiss aquifer
A model-independent particle swarm optimization software for model calibration
Hydrological Evaluation of Satellite-Based Rainfall Estimates over the Volta and Baro-Akobo Basin.
Standard Particle Swarm Optimisation 2011 at CEC-2013: A baseline for future PSO improvements.
Validation of satellite-based precipitation products over sparsely-gauged African river basins.
The br2 - weighting Method for Estimating the Effects of Air Pollution on Population Health

BookSection (4)

Characterizing meteorological droughts in data scare regions using remote sensing estimates of precipitation
Aguas Continentales
Climate change, water resources and pollution in the Ebro Basin: Towards an integrated approach
Hydrological impacts of climate change on the Ebro River Basin

BookWhole (2)

EFAS-Meteo a European daily high-resolution gridded meteorological data set for 1990-2011
Current Water Resources in Europe and Africa - Matching water supply and water demand

ConferencePaper (2)

Towards best default configuration settings for NMPSO in multi-objective optimization
Temporal and spatial evaluation of long-term satellite-based precipitation products across the complex topographical and climatic gradients of Chile

Editorial (1)

Hydrological Processes Special Issue "Hydrological processes across climatic and geomorphological gradients of Latin America"

Proyecto (10)

Improving forest water yield and productivity quantification at the catchment scale by mapping root depth and eco-physiological thresholds with remote sensing and water transfer modeling
The catchment’s memory: understanding how hydrological extremes are modulated by antecedent soil moisture conditions in a warmer climate
Management of global change impacts on hydrological extremes by coupling remote sensing data and an interdisciplinary modelling approach
Assessing spatio-temporal impacts of global change on water and biomass production processes at catchment scale=> a synergistic approach based on remote sensing and coupled hydrological models to improve sustainable management of forest ecosystems.
Hillslope water storage and runoff processes=> linking climate variability and interannual storage
Centro de Ciencia del Clima y Resiliencia (CR)2
Understanding the relationship between the spatio-temporal characteristics of meteorological drought and the availability of water resources, by using satellite-based rainfall and snow-cover data. A case study in a data-scarce Andean Chilean catchment
Establecimiento de Red de Estaciones nivo-glacialesde Cordillera de la Región de O´Higgins y Desarrollo de un modelo para la gestión integrada de los recursos hídricos de la cuenca del río Rapel.
Post-Doctoral Research on "Improved calibration of flood simulation models and case study research in pilot river basins". Water Resources Unit, Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Comission, Ispra, Italia.
EU Framework Programme 6, "Aquaterra" proyect. within the COMPUTE research group, Università degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italia.
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Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini

Associate Professor

Civil Engineering Department

Universidad de La Frontera

Temuco, Chile

4
Mauricio Galleguillos

Profesor Asociado

Universidad Adolfo Ibánez

Santiago, Chile

3
Camila Alvarez

Associate Researcher

U. de Chile - Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas

Centro de Ciencia del Clima y la Resiliencia

Santiago, Chile

2
James McPhee

Professor

Civil Engineering

UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

2
Amaya Alvez

Profesora Asociada

Dpto. Derecho Público

UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION

CONCEPCION, Chile

2
Juan Boisier

Investigador

Geofísica

U. de Chile - Centro de Ciencias del Clima y la Resiliencia

Santiago, Chile

1
Álvaro Ayala

Investigador postdoctoral

Geociencias

Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas (CEAZA)

La Serena, Chile

1
Antonio Lara

UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE

valdivia, Chile

1
DIEGO RIVERA

Full Professor

Universidad del Desarrollo

Las Condes, Chile

1
Jonathan Barichivich

Profesor adjunto ad-honorem

Instituto de Conservación, Biodiversidad y Territorio (ICBTe)

Universidad Austral de Chile

Valdivia, Chile

1
Pablo Mendoza

Assistant Professor

Department of Civil Engineering

Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
René Garreaud

Profesor

DEPARTAMENTO DE GEOFISICA, U. DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

1
Laura Farias

Profesor Titular

UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION

Concepcion, Chile

1
Alex Godoy

Director

Facultad de Ingeniería

Universidad del Desarrollo

Santiago, Chile

1
Carlos Le Quesne

Académico

Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y Recursos Naturales

UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE

Valdivia, Chile