Dr. Sergio Salinas is a desalination and water treatment technology professional and Associate Professor at IHE Delft (Netherlands) with experience in Latin America, Middle East, and Europe. Sergio has a PhD in Desalination and Water Treatment from the Technical University of Delft (Netherlands), an MSc on Water Supply Engineering from UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education (Netherlands), a Master on Irrigation and Drainage and a BSc on Civil Engineering from San Simon Major University (Bolivia). He also obtained the University Teaching Qualification (UTQ) in the Netherlands. He has over 75 publications in international peer-reviewed journals, book chapters in top publishing houses, and conference proceedings in the areas of seawater and brackish water desalination, water treatment, water reuse, and natural organic matter characterization.