About

María Gabriela Castrellón studied her bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering at the University of Connecticut (USA) and her master’s degree in Hydrological Sciences at the University of California, Davis (USA). She is currently a PhD Fellow at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education and Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. In 2021 she was awarded a full Doctoral Scholarship from the Panamanian government (IFARHU-SENACYT) to pursue her PhD in the field of hydroinformatics. Her current research focuses on the integration of physically-based and data-driven modelling techniques for environmental fluid mechanics applications. She is also interested in projects that harness the potential of remote sensing and computer vision to build hydrological models for poorly gauged or ungauged basins, and the integration of data and model results with interactive web dashboards to build decision-making tools for water resources management.

Career Type:

Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

Universities and Academia

Expertise Fields/Interests:

Hydrodynamics Computational Hydraulics Groundwater Modelling Tropical Hydrology Hydrogeology

Major Achievements:

* Doctoral Scholarship, National Secretariat of Science and Technology (SENACYT), Panamá, 2022-2026. * Undergraduate Excellence Scholarship, National Secretariat of Science and Technology (SENACYT), Panamá, 2012-2016.