About me
I am currently a 4th year Ph.D. Candidate in the Environmental Systems Program and Graduate Student Researcher in the Water Systems Management Lab at UC Merced. I am interested on the water-food system and their multiple links with society, environment and economy. My research focuses on system analysis of the coupled water-human systems. I use modeling tools such as optimization and statistical models to understand the evolution and feed-back between food production and water and how this is affected by exogenous changes such as water policies, climate change, crop prices and crop yields. Also, I am interested on developing visualizations, apps and modeling support tools that can help in the decision making of water and land strategies for sustainable water use and multi-beneffit projects.
Check my curriculum for an in depth list of my skills, publications, awards, etc.
Education:
- PhD in Environmental Systems
University of California Merced, 2019-present - Msc in Economics
Colegio de Postgraduados, Mexico, 2018 - Bsc in Agricultural Economics
Universidad Autonoma Chapingo, Mexico, 2015
Research keywords:
- Water-human-environmental systems
- Optimization
- Agriculture
- Water Management Policies
- Hydro-economic models
- Socio-hydrology
- Water economics
- Uncertainty
- Data science