Cris Edward Ferrer Monjardin is the Research Coordinator of the School of Civil, Environmental, and Geological Engineering at Mapua University. He finished his BSCE in 2013 from Mapua University. Then, he continued his Masters major in Water Resources Engineering at the same university and finished it in 2016. After a few years, he decided to continue his PhD studies in Environmental Engineering at the same university. He has worked in the academy since 2014 and has been part of different government research projects whose focus is on water resources management, disaster risk reduction management, flood hazard, and risk assessments. His research interests concern water overall, which includes the study of quantity for supply and disaster management and also of quality for water quality and environmental assessments. He is also a member of the National Research Council of the Philippines and the Philippine Institute of Civil Engineers, where he was part of the Young Engineers Committee.