Awards, Grants and others

Best Reviewer Award - Journal of Hydraulic Research, Awarded at the world congress of the International Association of Hydraulic Research (IAHR), (2015)
Faculty of Engineering Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, The University of Sheffield. United Kingdom. 2012/13.
Sochid Prize of Hydraulics, given every two years by the Chilean Society of Hydraulic Engineering to the best graduate in Hydraulic Engineering from Chilean universities, 2003.
Manuel Mondrus Award, for best student in the Engineering courses of the graduates in 2001, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Concepción, Chile.
CONYCIT Scholarship for Ph.D. Studies, National Commission of Scientiﬁc and Technological research, Chile, 2004-2007.
Integrated DAAD/CONICYT scholarship for joint research studies at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, 2007.

VII Fondequip program - Fondecyt (ID: EQM180150). Implementación de un sistema de medición óptico para fortalecer la investigación interdisciplinaria en procesos acoplados físicos, químicos y biológicos. (CLP $ 309.831.294 or approx USD $ 450000)
Quantification of the influence of geometry on the flow developed over and through fractal and non-fractal groups of obstacles. EP/L026457/1. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). $ 209014 (£ 124,949). PI
Experimental and numerical investigation of pluvial flood flows and pollutant transport at and between system interface points. EP/K040405/1. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). (£ 654996). CO-I, PI: Dr James Shucksmith.
Instrumentation Grant for Small scale equipment, Cross-Disciplinary Image Processing in Civil and Structural Engineering, Funded by the Engineering and Physical Research Council, PI, £ 49660. 2011
Instrumentation Grant for small scale equipment, Sheffield Fluid Mechanics Group, Funded by the Engineering and Physical Research Council, Pi: Chris Keylock, £ 50000. 2011
Yorkshire Water . £ 27098. Project 132296-11, 2011.
Shallow Dead Zone Dynamics, German National Science Foundations (Deutsche ForschungsGemeinschaft, DFG), Grant JI 18/18-1, together with GH Jirka, 2008-2010.

United Kingdom - Royal Society grant for international mobility “Automated detection of solar vortices with proper orthogonal decomposition (UK-Chile)” together with the University of Sheffield: Dr Gary Verth (Applied Mathematics) and Viktor Fedun (Automatic control and systems engineering), Co-Investigator
Member of REDES Project Nr. 170021. (CONICYT) on supercritical scouring.

Journal Reviewer
- Experiments in Fluids (Springer)
- Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Cambridge)
- International Journal of Multiphase flows
- Environmental Fluid Mechanics (Springer)
- Journal of Hydraulics Research (International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research)
- Water Resources Research (American Geophysical Union)
- Journal of Hydro-environment research (Asia-Pacific division International Association of Hydraulics Research)
- Water Management (Institution of Civil Engineers, United Kingdom)
- European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering
Conferences
- Member of Scientific Committee, XXVI Latin-American Conference of Hydraulics, IAHR (International Association of Hydraulics Research)
- Reviewer 37th IAHR World Congress, 2017, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Associate Editor
- Revista Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y naturales, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina.

Since 2018. Member of the Steering Committee of the Special interest group on “Synthetic Models in Turbulence “ of the European Community for Turbulence Flow and Combustion (ERCOFTAC) (https://www.ercoftac.org/special_interest_groups/42_synthetic_models_in_turbulence/people/)
Member of the European Mechanics Society (Euromech)
Member of the International Association of Hydro-environmental Engineering and Research, IAHR.
Former Member of the UK-IAHR leadership committee.