Ximena Vargas

Civil Engineer, University of Chile, 1975. She works as Associate Professor at the Civil Engineering Department at University of Chile. She participates in courses related to Hydrology for civil engineering and master students. Her research field deals with climate change, hydrologic modeling and forecasting of surface flow. She also is involved with groups interested in projects dealing with active learning engineering education and curricula redesign. She is author and coauthor of numerous Chilean and international publications in hydrology. Actually she is the national representative of IAHS, member of the Board of the Chilean Society of Education in Engineering and member of the Board of the Chilean Engineers Institute.