Dr. Fernando Salazar received a Degree in Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Madrid in 2002, specializing in Hydraulics. He is an Associate Research Professor at CIMNE, as well as Director of CIMNE-Madrid. He obtained his PhD at the UPC in 2017, qualified as Excellent Cum Laude. His dissertation focused on the application of machine learning techniques to dam monitoring data analysis. In this field, he was the winner of an International Challenge organized by Verbund, the greatest energy company in Austria. He is an active member of ICOLD and IAHR.