Outreach and Scientific Services 

Membership of Professional and Scientific Associations

• “Vocal Colaborador” at Spanish Committee on Large Dams (SPANCOLD). 

• Member of the Technical Committee on Dam Surveillance (Committee “Q”) of SPANCOLD. 

• Technical Secretary of the Technical Committee on Numerical Analysis of Dams (Commitee “A”) of SPANCOLD.

• Co-opted Member of the  Technical Committee on Dam Surveillance (Committee “Q”) of the International Committee on Large Dams (ICOLD)

• Recently proposed as Spanish representative in the Technical Committee on Numerical Analysis of Dams (Committee “A") of ICOLD.

• Member of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR) 

Congress organization

Member of the Scientific Committee:

• 7th ECCOMAS Young Investigators Conference.  Porto, Portugal, June 2023.

• 4th International Seminar on Dam Protections against Overtopping. Madrid, Spain, 2022.

• 8th International Electronic Conference on Water Sciences. October 2024, Online

Co-organizer:

• Theme A: Behaviour Prediction of a Concrete Arch Dam: 16th International Benchmark Workshop on Numerical Analysis of Dams. Ljubljana, Slovenia. 

Scientific Services

• Associate Editor at Frontiers of the Built Environment – Dam Engineering and Design Section 

• Member of PhD Thesis Jury:

  • Numerical modelling of non-Newtonian shallow flows. Author: Marcos Sanz-Ramos. Supervisor: Ernest Bladé. UPC, 2024.

  • Grain Size Analyses of Soils Based on Image Analysis Techniques and Machine Learning. Author: Mohammad Javad Manashti. Supervisor: François Duhaime. École de Technologie Supérieure. Université du Québec, Canada (2022).

  • “Estudios térmicos evolutivos de presas de hormigón compactado con rodillo en fase de construcción”. Author: Cristian Ponce. Directors: M. Á. Toledo, D. Santillán. UPM. 22/11/2021

  • Discussion leader and Special Reviewer in the licentiate thesis presented by Rikard Hellgren entitled “Condition assessment of concrete dams in cold climate” (23/10/2019). KTH, Sweden.

• Host of research stays:

  • Rocío L. Segura (Santa Clara University, USA). 1/7/2023-31/7/2023. Severo Ochoa Incoming Mobility Programme for researchers. Research on the application of machine learning as surrogate models in the context of uncertainty quantification in dam safety assessment. Prof. Segura delivered a Severo Ochoa Seminar with the title "Parameterized seismic fragility functions for gravity dams: An approach including the effect of updated model parameter knowledge".

  • Christian Tutivén (ESPOL, Ecuador). 29/5/2024-31/7/2024. Research on the use of deep learning in dam structural health monitoring. Submitted contribution to 16th International Workshop on Advanced Smart Materials and Smart Structures Technology & 4th ZHITU Symposium on Advances in Civil Engineering. Scientific article under review (see above).

  • Caterina Nogara (Politécnico di Milano). 6/5/2024-31/7/2024 Research on unsupervised machine learning methods for anomaly detection and localization in dams. Contribution presented at the 17th Benchmark Workshop on Numerical Analysis of Dams (Sophia, Bulgaria, April 2025). Scientific article under review (see above).

  • Christian Galarza (ESPOL, Ecuador). 1/10/2024-18/10/2024. Exploration of opportunities for collaboration on the application of machine learning and artificial intelligence on projects DOLMEN and DIGIT4WATER.

• Special Issue Co-Editor: “Soft computing and machine learning in dam engineering”. Water, led by M.A. Hariri-Ardebili (Univ. Colorado).