About

Francisco Nicolás Cantero-Chinchilla is Civil Engineer by the University of Granada in 2011, studied the Master Program in Environmental Hydraulics by the University of Córdoba (UCO) in 2012, and developed his Ph.D. in open-channel hydraulics at UCO ending in 2016. His main line of research, initiated during his Ph.D. thesis, focuses on the effect of high-order closure hypothesis on fluvial hydraulics modelling. He also worked in other fluvial hydraulics related lines of research studying the modelling of turbidity currents, dam break flows, overtopping dike breaking, discharge estimation at culverts, and bridge pier scour by debris accumulations, among others. He worked as Research Fellow at the University of Southampton (UoS), IAS-CSIC, and L’Institut Agro Montpellier. He collaborates intensively with open-channel hydraulics research groups along Europe, Asia, and USA. He acted as invited lecturer on open-channel flow hydraulics in the Master Program “Sustainable Water and Land Management in Agriculture” by CIHEAM IAM-BARI (Italy). He enjoyed various competitive postdoctoral research fellowships and contracts at UCO, UoS and CSIC, as well as the visiting research academic status at UoS. He was awarded as Outstanding Reviewer in 2022 for the Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering. Currently, he is postdoc researcher (Juan-de-la-Cierva-Incorporación fellowship) in the Hydraulic Research Area at UCO (2022-present).

Career Type:

Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

Universities and Academia

Expertise Fields/Interests:

Hydraulics of open channel flow Computational Hydraulics Depth-averaging modelling Sediment transport

Major Achievements:

Outstanding Reviewer in 2022 for the Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering