F. Javier Samper-Calvete holds a BS and an MS in Civil Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (1975–1981) and a PhD in Hydrology and Water Resources from the University of Arizona (Tucson, 1982–1986). He has been a Professor of Hydraulics and Hydrology at UPM Madrid (1986–1987), UPC Barcelona (1987–1993), and Coruña (1993–present). He has been awarded the following honors: Gómez Navarro Award (1981) from UPM (Madrid) for best Civil Engineering undergrad student on Hydraulics; Horton Research Award (1984) from the American Geophysical Union, USA; appearance as Expert in the Senate of Spain (1997) (Nuclear Waste Disposal Commission); and Guest Professor from Jilin University (China) in 2006. His research topics include hydrogeology, water resources evaluation, geostatistics, numerical models of groundwater flow, and contaminant transport. He has developed computational codes for water balance modeling (VISUAL-BALAN and GIS-BALAN), groundwater flow and reactive transport in aquifers (CORE2D), non-isothermal multiphase water flow, multicomponent reactive transport for rad waste disposal (INVERSE-FADES-CORE), and reactive transport with microbial processes (BIOCORE2D). He has been an Advisor of 11 Master Theses and 20 PhD dissertations. His publications include several books, 500 conference papers, and 70 papers in SCI journals. He was an Expert for UNESCO and IAEA, and a Chairman of the International Association of Hydrogeologists (Spanish Chapter) (1997–2000).
