Dr. Horna-Muñoz is director of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Engineering and Technology - UTEC. He received the B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Kansas, the M.S. in Civil Engineering with a specialization in Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology from Stanford University, and the Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering with a specialization in Hydraulics, Hydrology and Water Resources at IIHR-Hydroscience and Engineering at the University of Iowa. Dr. Horna -Muñoz has been a visiting professor in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, and has also participated in the summer research school called Fluid Dynamics of Sustainability and the Environment in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge. His research focuses on the development and application of three-dimensional and two-dimensional computational fluid dynamics models to study a variety of environmental fluids and engineering problems. His research has focused, for example, on the study of the influence of buildings on atmospheric pollution patterns in urban environments, vegetation-air quality interaction, fog and mist creation processes, the study of floods caused by breaks in dam, in the study of how erosion changes during a flood event, study of mixing in river confluences, as well as study of lake dynamics for different profiles and magnitudes of stratification.