Alicia Del Rio is currently a PhD student in Centro del Agua para America Latina y el Caribe at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico. Her research interests include issues related to water management, hydrograph parameterisation, hydrologic data analysis, hydroinformatics and simulation. She completed her Bachelor in Science in 2006 as a Mechatronic Engineer and obtained her master degree from the EuroAquae program of Erasmus Mundus in Hydroinformatics and Water Management in 2009. After which she carried out an intership in SUEZ CIRSEE working on microsensors for water quality in urban drainage systems. Her current research involves physical modeling and study of the rainfall-runoff process and its relation to the hydrograph shape of a watershed.