• Efficient use of water in agriculture and mining
• New sources of water for agriculture, mining and communities
• Water availability and quality for agriculture and mining under climate change
• Water governance, ecosystem services and sustainability

• Solid-liquid separation
• Thickening
• Filtration
• Suspension transport
• Rheology

Professor Emeritus, Department of Metallurgical Engineering, Universidad de Concepción.  

Undergraduate courses taught:

• Water in mining

Graduate courses taught:

• Solid-liquid separation

• Advisor, CENID
• University of Queensland (Baumgartl, T., Pagliero, L., Macintire, N.)
• SMIICE (Mulligan,D., Kuyvenhoven, R., Aitken, D., Garcia Giovanna)
• National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Department of Physico-chemical Hydrodynamics (Nikolaj Ruylov)
• Melbourne University (Peter Scales)
• Director, Dry Mining Network (UdeC, USACH, UC, UFSM, UDD, UBB, SMIICE)