About

Dr. Fernando Magdaleno currently works as Assistant to the Deputy Director of Water Protection and Risk Management of the Spanish Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, where he coordinates a wide number of public policies and programmes related to the protection and multi-dimensional restoration of rivers and wetlands, the hydromorphological and ecological assessment of water bodies, the definition of flow requirements of water-dependent ecosystems and the interaction between land, water and biodiversity. He represents Spain in different working core groups of the European Commission (Hymo rivers and lakes, Sediments, Temporary rivers). He also works as assistant professor of hydraulics and hydrology at the Technical University of Madrid, where he has published several books and peer-reviewed papers in the aforementioned topics, and has participated as evaluator of EU research calls. Previously he has been Head of the Environmental Restoration Unit of the Centre for Studies and Experimentation of Public Works (CEDEX), where he conducted many different research and cooperation projects with public and private entities, including multilateral development banks and the OECD. He has degrees in forest engineering (MSc, 2002), hydrology (MSc, 2004) and river hydromorphology and ecology (PhD, 2011), and has extensively worked in these areas in the international sphere, including Central and South America, the US, Europe and Asia. In 2012/13 he served as Fulbright Post-doc researcher at the University of California-Berkeley.

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Scientist/Researcher/Academic

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Governments and Public Utilities

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