Aldo Tamburrino is an associate professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and an associate researcher at the Advanced Mining Technology Center (AMTC) at the Universidad de Chile. He graduated as a civil engineer from the Universidad de Chile, earned his master of science degree in civil engineering from the University of Minnesota, and obtained his Ph.D. in civil engineering from the same university. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the fields of fluid mechanics, hydraulics, and sediment transport. His current areas of interest mainly revolve around fundamental hydraulics, debris and granular flows, and non-Newtonian fluid dynamics.