About

Dr. Veronica Minaya graduated as a Civil Engineer in 2005 and then obtained her master's degree in Water Resources (2008) at the National Polytechnic School in Quito, Ecuador. In 2010, she obtained her Master's Degree in Environmental Sciences with a specialization in Limnology and Aquatic Ecosystems attending modules in the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Austria and Kenya. Finally, she finished her PhD research with a case study in the Ecuadorian paramo grasslands in 2016 at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education and the Delft University of Technology. In 2017, she joined the Free University of Brussels as a Postdoctoral fellow to work on different international cooperation projects in Africa and Latin America related to the integrated water resource management. She has more than 8 years of international experience in the water sector, where she has managed and coordinated team works for a wide range of innovative projects for sustainable development and water security. She currently works as a full-time senior lecturer at the National Polytechnic School of Ecuador, where she teaches classes on Project Management, Integrated Water Resource Management, Water Resources Planning, Hydrological Basin Modeling, River Ecosystems, Environmental Hydrology, Ecological Engineering and Development of project and thesis proposals at both undergraduate and graduate levels. She has supervised and coordinated several research projects with the collaboration of public entities. In addition, she also manages projects with international funding from the European Commission through the so-called Horizon2020 and with the Belgian Cooperation through VLIR-UOS. She supervises several theses for undergraduate and postgraduate students on issues related to watershed management, ecosystem analysis, water management, among others. Her main interests include water resource planning and management, water productivity, capacity building, gender equity, and women and youth empowerment in the water sector.

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Scientist/Researcher/Academic

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Universities and Academia

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