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Associate Professor
Department of Civil Engineering, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Universidad de La Frontera, where I lead the Water Resources Observatory Kimün-Ko. I hold a PhD in Environmental Engineering from the University of Trento (Italy) and completed postdoctoral training at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre.
I have more than 20 years of experience in water resources research and have previously served as an Associate Researcher at the Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2 and as a member of the Earth Sciences Assessment Group of the Chilean National Research and Development Agency (ANID).
My research lies at the interface of hydrology, data science, and environmental sciences, with a particular focus on the use of gridded datasets and open-source tools to investigate droughts, extreme events, and water-related impacts of global change.
I work across spatial and temporal scales to improve the understanding of catchment-scale hydrological processes and to translate this knowledge into operational modelling, forecasting, and early-warning systems that support robust environmental decision-making.
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PhD in Environmental Engineering
2007-01-01
2010-07-31
Università degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy
Diploma in Water Pollution
2002-08-01
2002-10-31
Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Diploma in Environmental Management
2002-11-01
2002-12-31
Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Civil Engineer
1992-03-01
1998-12-31
Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile
Graphic representation of Dr. Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini’s recognition of the Mapuche people
I acknowledge the territory on which Universidad de La Frontera stands, which is the land of the Mapuche people. I honor and respect these peoples’ past, present, and future, their continuing presence in this region, and the enduring relationships that exist between them and these lands and ecosystems. I strive to be mindful of these relationships, and to integrate them into my research, teaching, decision-making, and actions, while also acknowledging that I still have much to learn from them.
Soil moisture (SM) is a critical variable governing land–atmosphere interactions and influencing ecohydrological and climatic processes. Despite substantial progress in estimating …
Traditionally, Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) curves are based on rain gauge data under the assumption of stationarity. However, only limited long time series of sub-daily …
This article introduces hydroMOPSO, a multi-objective, model-independent R package for the calibration of hydrological and environmental models. It supports both R-based and …
Low streamflows are critical for sustaining water supply in Mediterranean regions, yet their simulation remains challenging due to the complex influence of soils on subsurface …
January 21-23 2026, Pucón Campus of the Universidad de La Frontera
November 26th 2026, Santiago, Chile
November 21th 2025, Temuco, Chile
November 5-7 2026, Viña del Mar, Chile
November 4th 2025, Santiago, Chile
Explore how RcamelsCL simplifies access to Chile's CAMELS-CL dataset, helping researchers build faster, reproducible hydrology workflows.
Article on gridded soil moisture products published in HESS
Global average temperatures in 2025 were the third hottest on record, surpassed only by 2024 and 2023
Article on gridded IDF curves published in HESS
Article on multi-objective optimisation R package published in EMS
Article on hydropedological clustering published in JoH
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has confirmed that 2024 is the warmest year on record, based on six international datasets. The past ten years have all been in the Top …