Dr. Anderson Luiz Ribeiro de Paiva is Associate Professor at the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Federal University of Pernambuco. He completed his PhD studies in Water Resources / Civil Engineering at the Federal University of Pernambuco, with a doctoral sandwich period at the Free University of Berlin. He recently led projects on bank filtration in Pernambuco and studies on alluviums in the semi-arid region. He has published several articles in various journals and serves as a representative on the State Council for Water Resources in Pernambuco. He is also a member of the Brazilian Water Resources Association, collaborating on various regional and national research projects. His teaching disciplines include Mechanics of Fluids, Statistics for Water Resources, Water Resources Engineering, Computational Modeling of Groundwater. and his interests include groundwater, managed aquifer recharge, urban drainage, green roof, water quality, alluvium, semi-arid.