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Sergio Andrés was born in Colombia. He is a Civil Engineer from Universidad Industrial de Santander (Colombia, 2005). He obtained his Specialist Degree in Water Resources Systems Analysis from Universitat Politècnica de València (2006). He received his Master Degree in Sustainable Water Engineering from Universidad de Sevilla (2010). He has a Ph.D Degree (Cum Laude qualification) in Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering from Universitat Politècnica de València (2013). His PhD thesis was related with a methodology for flood risk analysis and flood risk reduction applied in the Rambla del Poyo (Valencia, Spain). Through his association with the Water and Environmental Research Institute and the Research Group of Hydrological and Environmental Modelling (GIMHA), he has participated in several research projects where he assumed several tasks in topics regarding mainly with catchment hydrology and flood risk management. Additionally, he has enjoyed substantial scientific internships at the Hydraulic Research Centre of the Instituto Superior Politécnico José Antonio Echeverría (Cuba) and at the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management of the Vienna University of Technology. As specific courses of specialties carried out, the following can be mentioned: Environmental impact assessment, geographical information systems, remote sensing applications for water resources management.

From 2014 to 2018, he worked as Advisor at the colombian Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development. From 2016 to 2020 he was Adjunct professor (part-time) at National University of Colombia. Currently, he is a posdoctoral researcher at the Agroecosystems History Laboratory (Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain).  Also, he is collaborating with other research groups: the Hydraulics and Hydrology Research Area of the Research Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering (IIAMA) – Universitat Politènica de València), Land Engineering of the University of Seville, and Integrated Water Resources Management of the National University of Colombia.in both  and For more details about his professional experience see profile at Linkedin, ResearchGate, ORCID.

Topics of interest:

  • Catchment hydrology
  • Flood Risk Management
  • Integrated Water Resources Management
  • Remote sensing
  • Socio-hydrology
  • Water policy
  • Social metabolism
  • Agroecology
  • Environmental history

RESEARCHER IDs:

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2463-1790

Scopus Author ID: 57312689100

ResearcherID : F-7096-2012

AFFILIATIONS:

Member of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS). Areas of Interest: Surface Water, Remote Sensing, Water Resources Systems, Statistical Hydrology.

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

Young Hydrologic Society National representative – Colombia

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES:

Journal Editor of Open Agriculture in the field of Hydrology-irrigation

Journal Editor of “Water and Landscape” journal in the sections: book reviews, interviews

PUBLICATIONS

Technical support to policies in integrated water resources management in Colombia:

Riparian landscape management policies: 

Water quality and quantity management plannig: 

His scientific dissemination can be seen in the following links:

  • Journals SCI:

De León Pérez, D.; Acosta Vega, R.; Salazar Galán, S.; Aranda, J.Á.; Francés García, F. Toward Systematic Literature Reviews in Hydrological Sciences. Water 2024, 16, 436. https://doi.org/10.3390/w16030436

Sánchez-Fuentes, D., Mascort-Albea, E. J., & Salazar-Galán, S. (2023). Transiciones necesarias hacia entornos metropolitanos resilientes a través de la biorregión. Estudios Geográficos, 84(294), e132-e132. https://estudiosgeograficos.revistas.csic.es/index.php/estudiosgeograficos/article/view/1130

Gomis-Cebolla, J., Rattayova, V., Salazar-Galán, S., & Francés, F. (2023). Evaluation of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis precipitation datasets over Spain (1951–2020). Atmospheric Research, 106606. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2023.106606

Olaya-Marín, Esther-Julia, Lemus-Portillo, Ciromar, Echavarría-Pedraza, Monika-Cristina, Chaparro-García, Oscar-Andrés, Roa-Fuentes, Camilo-Andrés, Salazar-Galán, Sergio, & Barrios-Peña, Miguel. (2022). Differences in body size and abundance of high Andean fishes, above and below the Neusa dam, Colombia. Revista de Biología Tropical, 70(1), 464-481. http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/rev.biol.trop.2022.49776

Salazar-Galan, S., Mascort-Albea, E., & Sanchez-Fuentes, D. (2022). Post-COVID-19 territorial redefinition: resilience in the face of risks and imbalances in urban-rural patterns. EURE-REVISTA LATINOAMERICANA DE ESTUDIOS URBANO REGIONALES, 48(143). http://dx.doi.org/10.7764/eure.48.143.16

Salazar-Galán, S., García-Bartual, R., Salinas, J. L., & Francés, F. (2021). A process-based flood frequency analysis within a trivariate statistical framework. Application to a semi-arid Mediterranean case study. Journal of Hydrology, 603, 127081. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.127081

Salazar, S., Francés, F., Komma, J., Blume, T., Francke, T., Bronstert, A., & Blöschl, G. (2012). A comparative analysis of the effectiveness of flood management measures based on the concept of” retaining water in the landscape” in different European hydro-climatic regions. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 12(11), 3287-3306. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-12-3287-2012

  • Books:

Salazar, S. : Methodology for flood risk analysis and its reduction: application in the “Rambla del Poyo” (Valencia) using “retention water in the landscape” measures, Ed. Universitat Politècnica de València, ISBN 978-84-9048-074-8, 362 pp., 2013.

Buitrago Aguirre, C. L., Hernández Suárez, J. S., Salazar Galán, S. A. Hernández Atilano, E., Brijaldo Flechas, N. J., Santos Santos, T.F., Uribe Palacios, A. M., García Jaramillo, L., Castro Hernández : Guía técnica para la formulación de Planes de Ordenamiento del Recurso Hídrico – PORH-, Dirección de Gestión Integral del Recurso Hídrico, Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible, 2014.

  • Book chapters:

Salazar, S., Francés, F., Komma, J., Blöschl, G., Blume, T., Francke, T., Bronstert, A: Efficiency of non-structural flood mitigation measures: “room for the river” and “retaining water in the landscape”, in: P. Samuels, S Huntington, W. Allsop and J. Harrop Editors, Flood Risk Management Research into Practice, CRC Press/Balkema. ISBN:978-0-415-48507-4, 2009.

  • Proceedings:
  • Salazar, N. Cortes, L. Laverde: HeCCA 1.0: An easy numerical tool to facilitate environmental flow allocation in Colombia. IUGG General Assembly, Montreal, Canada. July 18-21, 2019.
  • Sergio Salazar, Jose Luis Salinas, Rafael García-Bartual, Félix Francés: Enfoque multivariado para el análisis de frecuencia de crecidas en cuencas hidrográficas con escasez de datos hidrológicos. XXVIII Congreso Latinoamericano de Hidráulica – IAHR, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 18-21 Septiembre 2018.
  • Laura Tatiana Barrios, Sergio Salazar: Una perspectiva de la implementación de un enfoque sociohidrológico para la gestión del riesgo por inundaciones en Colombia. XXVIII Congreso Latinoamericano de Hidráulica – IAHR, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 18-21 Septiembre 2018.
  • Sergio Salazar, Jose Luis Salinas, Rafael García-Bartual, Félix Francés: A flood frequency analysis framework to account flood-generating factors in Western Mediterranean catchments. Session: New insights into flood frequency analysis and risk assessment. Warsaw, Poland, 21-22 Septiembre 2017,
  • S Salazar, S Hernández: Towards integrated water resources management in Colombia: challenges and opportunities for spatial environmental planning. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria. id.833, 12-17 April, 2015.
  • Sergio Salazar, Félix Francés: Análisis de la efectividad de diferentes estrategias para la reducción del riesgo de inundación incrementando la capacidad de retención del agua en el territorio, III Jornadas de Ingeniería del Agua, Valencia, 23-24 October 2013, MARCOMBO, S.A., ISBN: 9788426720719, 2013.
  • S. Salazar, F. Francés, R. García-Bartual, E. Ortiz, J.C. Múnera, J.J. Vélez: Flood risk assessment in a Spanish Mediterranean catchment, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 11, EGU2009-5815, 2009, EGU General Assembly, 2009.
  • Sergio Salazar, Félix Francés: Comparación de la eficiencia de mitigación de inundaciones mediante medidas de retención en el territorio, Proceeding of the XXIII Congreso Latinoamericano de Hidráulica, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. 2-6 September, 2008. ISBN: 978-958-719-075-5, 2008.
  • Reports:

Félix Francés, Rafael García-Bartual, Enrique Ortiz, Sergio Salazar, Günter Blöschl, Jürgen Komma, Christine Habereder, Axel Bronstert, Theresa Blume: CRUE Research Report No I-6: “Room for the river” project, Eranet CRUE Funding Initiative on Flood Risk Management Research, 2008.

Guzmán Jorge A., Salazar Sergio A., Gómez Sully: Modelación hidrológica del río de oro. Creciente del 12 de febrero del 2005, Working paper, Grupo en Predicción y Modelamiento Hidroclimático – Universidad Industrial de Santander, 2005.

Awards:

IAHS Sivapalan Young Scientists Travel Awards (SYSTA)

https://iahs.info/About-IAHS/SYSTA/IUGG-General-Assembly-SYSTA-Awardees.do

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