Javier Rodrigo-Ilarri is a civil engineer from the School of Civil Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), where he graduated at the top of his class in 1997. His doctoral thesis on flow and mass transport modelling in fractured media was awarded the extraordinary doctoral prize from UPV in 2005. From 1998 to 1999, he held the position of environmental quality engineer at the Waste and Pollution Service of the Valencia Regional Ministry of the Environment. In 2005, he became a civil servant as an associate professor in the Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering Department of UPV. Since its foundation in 2002, he has been a member of the Hydrogeology Research Group at the Water and Environmental Engineering Institute (IIAMA). His main research lines focus on various fields of environmental engineering: groundwater pollution, environmental impact assessment, solid waste management, and contaminated soils. Since its foundation in 2002, he has been a member of the Hydrogeology Research Group of the Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering (IIAMA). He has served as Secretary and Deputy Director of the IIAMA (2021–2025). He is currently the Head of the Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering Department at UPV.