Meet the team: Àlex de la Cruz

Àlex de la Cruz is Project Engineer at Aquatec, PhD Student at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, and the Manager of ICARIA. Find out more about his role in the project:

• What is ICARIA for you? ICARIA is a step forward in addressing a major research and knowledge gap in disaster risk reduction: the occurrence of compound events and their impact on critical assets.

• ICARIA in three words: Improve resilience planning. 

• What is your role in ICARIA? As a researcher at Aquatec, I lead the general coordination WP (WP6) together with Professor Beniamino Russo. Our objective is to ensure that the project runs smoothly, both scientifically and administratively. In particular, this means ensuring smooth communication between all sixteen partners in the ICARIA consortium. I also coordinate the Barcelona Metropolitan Area case study and its local Community of Practice.
  
  As a researcher, I am currently developing a large-scale 1D/2D hydrodynamic flood model to assess the risk that this hazard can pose to critical assets in this region. I am also working on models to assess other relevant hazards affecting the AMB, such as drought. In this case, Aquatec is developing a physical model to estimate the future availability of water resources for this metropolitan area under different climate change scenarios.