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.

  • Increasing Robustness of Critical Infrastructures Assessment Using Artificial Intelligence and Structural Monitoring. Author: Fabiana Miranda. Supervisors: Juan Mata, Xavier Romão and João Pedro Santos. Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, 18/02/2026. 

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