Francisco Febronio Peña, Research Associate at WARREDOC

About

Flood Risk & GIS Professional from Mexico living in Italy.

Young passionate professional in the field of disaster risk reduction, hydraulic modelling, flooding, GIS, digital mapping, big data, technology, innovation, citizen science and scientific communication.

CEO of Communicating Disaster Risk Reduction Science and more. The initiative focuses on explaining in an easy-friendly way key concepts within the Disaster Risk Reduction umbrella, the progress and challenges in the field and its growing importance at the global scale to raise public awareness. Citizens around the world are tired of the political and scientific argot. They deserve to be informed; therefore the scientific community and water professionals must break communication barriers and find creative ways to explain what is going on in the world.

http://www.radiophonica.com/drr-disaster-risk-reduction

Information

• Email: francisco.pena@unistrapg.it
• Website: http://warredoc.unistrapg.it/
• Location: Perugia, Italy
• X (formerly Twitter): https://twitter.com/FebronioPena
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/franciscopeña/

Industry experience

Education: PhD

Seniority: Expert, Engineer, Consultant

Years of experience: 1 to 5 years

Work experience

• Project Engineer

  Conduct more than 50 urban flood risk assessments Design and construction of pluvial works

  Hydraulic and Hydrological Engineering Services

  2012-07  - 2014-07

• Intern

  Statistics, data analysis and graph analytics for the Regional Report of Habitat III, under the supervision of the Housing and Land Management Unit, Forest, Land and Housing Division.

  United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)

  2015-09  - 2015-12

• Research Associate

  Water Modeling for Flood Risk Assessments GIS Analysis Flood Mapping Resilient Urban/Land Planning Citizen Science Scientific Dissemination

  WARREDOC

  2016-01  - Present

• Flood Risk Specialist

  Water supply acquisition project for the Baja California region Expertise in National Flood Insurance Program (Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico) Expertise in 1D and 2D hydraulic modelling for flood hazard mapping (HEC-RAS and FLO-2D)

  Water Center for Latin America and the Caribbean

  2014-02  - 2014-07

Taxonomy

• Flood Modeling
• Flood Risk Management
• GIS Spatial Analysis