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Bio
Luis Pineda was born in Loja, Ecuador. He is an experienced hydrologist with about 20 years’ work experience as practitioner and researcher in water resources. He obtained his PhD in engineering sciences – Hydro-climatology in KU Leuven University, Belgium, in 2015 funded by an EMECW grant from the European Commission. He also got a MSc. in water resources engineering from KU Leuven & VU Brussel in 2008 and a MA. in sustainable water resources with focus on climate from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in 2010.
Before joining Yachay Tech he was a Post-doctoral researcher in the R&D Department at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI). In SMHI, he investigated impacts of climate change on the hydropower industry and collaborated in the development of a global climate service for the water sector in the framework of the EU Copernicus programme. In the early stage of his career, he worked in the sector of water supply and sanitation in rural Ecuador.
Research Interests
Luis Pineda’s research focuses on studying the impacts of climate change and variability in relation to water, energy and food resources. To this end, he seeks to advance knowledge on the interaction between climate and regional hydrology in seasonal to inter-annual time scales, making use of numerical climate model outputs and statistics, hydrological models, satellite and ground observations.
Luis is also interested and contributes in the development of suitable tools for integrating climate information into hydrological decision making in a developing country setting. The focus of such integration being applications to the sectors of hydropower, agriculture and the assessment of hydrological hazards.