Course Presenter

Reinaldo Garcia is a former Wessex Institute of Technology Research Fellow who visited Ashurst Lodge from 1997 to 1998. He obtained his M.Sc in Hydraulic Engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Montreal, Canada and his PhD from the University of Central Venezuela. He is the creator and leader of the development team of the RiverFLO-2D two-dimensional river dynamics model. Reinaldo has more than 30 years of experience developing and applying models to simulate 2D and 3D free surface flows, multiphase flows, water quality, and sediment transport dynamics. He has worked in hundreds of modelling projects in the USA, and more than other 20 countries in Europe, Asia, and South America, and he is considered an international expert in the field. Reinaldo has taught more than 50 international courses on flooding and pollutant transport models worldwide. He lectured at the University of Miami, Florida from 2004 to 2006. In 2006 he was appointed Senior Research Scientist at the Applied Research Centre of Florida International University (FIU). Presently Reinaldo divides his research activities between the WaterSCAPES NASA Research Centre at FIU together with his model development and consulting at Hydronia, a private firm that commercialises the RiverFLO-2D model.