Claudio Vergara-Saez
Claudio Vergara-Saez
- Claudio is a PhD student at the University of Western Australia
- Primary Emailclaudio.vergara-saez@csiro.au
Biography
Claudio is a geologist and hydrogeologist from Chile with 15 years of professional experience working as consultant and regulator in both Chile and Australia. His main interests are groundwater quality assessment, geochemical modelling, groundwater management through numerical modelling and uncertainty quantification.
He graduated from the Master of Hydrogeology at UWA and is currently pursuing his PhD studying the feedback mechanisms that control water quality evolution in surface-groundwater systems, with a focus on the water quality evolution of mining pit lakes. He is a recipient of the prestigious Forrest Foundation Scholarship with a Top Up Scholarship awarded by CRC TiME.
Claudio also works part time as Senior Associate Hydrogeologist at WSP. Previously, he worked as Senior Hydrogeologist and Regional Head at the Maule Regional office of the Chilean Geological and Mining Survey (SERNAGEOMIN). Before this, he worked as Project Hydrogeologist in Arcadis Chile.