Senior Scientist, Computational Hydrosystems, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research and University of Potsdam
Luis Samaniego (Prof. Dr.) is research scientist at the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ in Leipzig and Professor for Data Science and Hydrology at the University of Potsdam. He received the B.S. degree in civil engineering from the Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito (1991), the M.S. degree (1997) and the Ph.D. degree (2003) from the University of Stuttgart, where he focused on hydrological modeling and the consequences of land cover change. His Habilitation was on the field of hydrology at the University of Potsdam (2021). Since 2013, Dr. Samaniego is the deputyhead of Department Computational Hydrosystems. Dr. Samaniego’s scientific focus in the last fifteen years has been the development and evaluation of a robust and efficiently distributed hydrologic model (mHM) having regionalized parameters to ease the transferability of model parameters to ungauged locations and across scales. Currently, he concentrates on developing monitoring and forecasting for droughts and floods from national to global scale. He is the co-developer of the German Drought Monitor. Since 2010, Dr. Samaniego is Associate Editor of Water Resources Research (AGU), and Editor of HESS.