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The UCAM signs a research agreement in environmental sciences with the Texas Agricultural & Mechanical University (10/07/2018)

The signing of this agreement will allow the development of joint projects on water resources and water quality, as well as the exchange of predoctoral students between both institutions

The UCAM and the Texan Agricultural & Mechanical University (TAMU), have signed this morning a collaboration agreement to promote research among professionals in the areas of engineering related to environmental sciences that will allow the development of joint projects on water resources and quality of water, as well as the exchange of predoctoral students between both institutions.

Through this agreement signed by José Luis Mendoza, president of the UCAM and Professor Raghavan Srinivasan, on behalf of TAMU, the Catholic University will have the research experience of Texas A & M, one of the most important universities in the world. area of ​​water resources (ranked 9 in the world) and engineering studies (17 in the world), as published by the Academic Ranking of World Universities (Shanghai Ranking).

Other rankings as recognized as the QS also places the University of Texas A & M among the first in the world in the area of ​​environmental sciences.

Also, according to data from the National Science Foundation of the US (National Science Foundation), the University occupies one of the first positions in the US in terms of investment in research, with a record of 892.7 million dollars during the year 2016.

Javier Senent, director of the Water Research Chair of the UCAM, assures that: "thanks to this collaboration, new avenues of investigation are opened with the best specialists in the world to work on local case studies such as the situation in the Campo de Cartagena or the problem of water scarcity of the Segura river ".

The researcher Raghavan Srinivasan, is one of the creators of the hydrological model SWAT, software developed for the evaluation of water resources with a long journey of more than three decades that does not stop in its continuous improvement.

The SWAT model has been gaining international recognition and is currently being used in about a hundred different countries.

This researcher, who during this week is teaching a course in the UCAM to other researchers of more than ten different nationalities, has published more than two hundred indexed publications (JCR) and is according to recent studies the second most influential researcher in the world according to to the number of citations received in terms of hydrological modeling.

In fact, accumulates throughout his scientific career around 8000 citations received in the web of science.

The Vice Chancellor for Research, Estrella Núñez Delicado, and the General Director of Institutional Relations, José Luis Mendoza García, were also present.

Source: UCAM

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