Experience

More than six years of flood and climate risk work for governments, development partners and the private sector in Africa, the Indian Ocean and Latin America. Clients and partners are not named; the public projects on this site use open data only.

Selected projects

  1. Prevention

    National fluvial flood & coastal erosion risk assessment

    Indian Ocean island state · National disaster management agency · 2024–present · Technical lead

    • High-resolution fluvial flood hazard maps for the entire national river network, from calibrated and validated Wflow (hydrology) and SFINCS (hydraulics) models.
    • 8 return periods under baseline and future climate (SSP2-4.5 and SSP5-8.5, 2050 and 2085), constrained by local discharge and water-level observations.
    • Coastal erosion hazard under the same scenarios, with displaced population and economic loss.
    • Annual average losses from region down to the smallest administrative unit (PostGIS/DuckDB), used to prioritise where adaptation measures go first.
    • Reproducible Python workflows, capacity building for local authorities, and public release of the data on a GeoNode platform.
  2. Retention & Transfer

    Parametric flood insurance for poor and vulnerable urban communities

    West African megacity · State government, via a climate risk-finance fund · 2023–present

    • Tested several excess-rainfall and flood indices to set trigger thresholds and payout schemes consistent with historical flood impacts and community vulnerability.
    • Delivered on-the-ground capacity building so local stakeholders understand and own the insurance mechanism.
    • Consolidated the technical findings and recommendations in the final report.
  3. PreventionRetention & TransferPreparedness

    Flood resilience strategy for three urban and peri-urban communes

    West Africa · National civil protection agency, via a climate risk-finance fund · 2023–present

    • Flood risk assessment supporting the design of mitigation, adaptation and risk-transfer measures.
    • Co-designed a parametric cover on excess-rainfall indices for residual flood risk.
    • Pushed for and helped commission 10 weather stations, feeding a web interface that monitors trigger conditions in near real time.
  4. Retention & TransferPreparedness

    Agroclimatic risk assessment & monitoring for agricultural microcredit

    Latin America · Financial-inclusion programme of a multilateral development institution

    • Designed and built an application that screens farm plots before a loan is granted: plot geometry, continuity of production from Sentinel-2 NDVI, terrain, access to infrastructure and agroclimatic risk scoring.
    • Portfolio monitoring with ERA5-based climate indicators, so lenders can follow risk through the life of the loan.
    • Goal: help farmers become more resilient by widening their access to microcredit while keeping lending risk under control.
    Code on GitHub

Roles

  1. 2022–present

    Senior NatCat Engineer

    Climate risk insurance & consulting firm · Paris

    • End-to-end flood risk assessments (fluvial, pluvial, coastal) combining hazard, exposure and vulnerability, with custom hydrologic and hydraulic models from local to national scale.
    • Technical lead on international projects for governments and development partners: concept, workplan and budget, technical writing, delivery.
    • Capacity building: transferring models and tools to local teams.
    • Partnerships with research institutes, flood-modelling firms, engineering consultancies, government agencies and satellite/ground-station data providers.

  2. 2020–2022

    Flood Analyst

    Climate risk insurance & consulting firm · Paris

    • Designed a parametric flood insurance product, evaluating and testing index-based triggers for water-related climate risks.
    • Built a portfolio flood-risk product that quantifies annual average losses so clients can locate high-risk sites and target resilience investment.
    • Built and maintained a geospatial hazard–exposure–vulnerability database behind the insurance and consulting products.

  3. 2019

    MSc research project: storm surge

    Insurance group, with TU Delft · Paris

    • Bayesian-network model for storm surge impacts, trained on a hurricane catalogue simulated with a calibrated Delft3D FM storm-tide model (Holland wind fields, HURDAT2 tracks). Presented at EGU 2020.

  4. 2019

    Research internship: port planning

    Engineering consultancy · London

    • Planning and design guidelines for automotive port terminals, from benchmarking seven international ports. Presented at the PIANC De Paepe-Willems Award.

Education

MSc Civil Engineering, Hydraulic Engineering
Delft University of Technology · 2020 · Flood risk management, river and coastal engineering
BSc Civil Engineering
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · 2017
Chartered civil engineer (Spain)
Ingeniero de Caminos, Canales y Puertos: hydraulics and construction

Skills

Hazard modelling
Wflow, SFINCS, Delft3D FM, HydroMT, extreme-value analysis
Risk analytics
Hazard–exposure–vulnerability integration, annual average loss, climate scenarios
Risk finance
Parametric index and trigger design, basis risk, risk layering
Forecasting & EO
ECMWF ENS, GloFAS, Sentinel-1/2, IMERG, CHIRPS, ERA5
Engineering
Python, xarray, PostGIS, DuckDB, Julia, GitHub Actions, React, Streamlit
Languages
Spanish, Catalan (native) · English, French (professional)