Position Title
Affiliated Researcher
Dr. José Luis Arumí is an expert in hydrology and water resource management, with a distinguished career in researching water availability and quality for agriculture, health, and mining sectors. His work focuses on the interaction between surface and groundwater, water governance, assessing and reducing agricultural pollution, as well as ecosystem services and water resource sustainability. Currently, he is the director of the Water Resources Department at the University of Concepción (UdeC), Chillán campus. He teaches undergraduate courses in Agricultural Civil Engineering and participates in master's and doctoral programs at the Faculty of Agricultural Engineering, where he served as dean from 2013 to 2019.
Dr. Arumí earned a civil engineering degree from the Federico Santa María Technical University and completed his Ph.D. at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, United States. He is the principal investigator of the CRHIAM Center and the Law, Environment, and Climate Change Program at UdeC. He also serves on the board of the Chilean Chapter of the Latin American Association of Groundwater Hydrology for Development (ALHSUD). He actively engages in national and international research networks such as the International Association of Hydrogeologists, the Chilean Society of Hydraulic Engineering (SOCHID), the Gremial Association of Irrigation and Drainage (AGRYD), the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, and the American Geophysical Union.
In 2015, he received the Andrés Benítez Girón prize, awarded by the National Committee of UNESCO-Chile's Intergovernmental Hydrological Program. In 2024, he was honored with the Academic Career Award in Water Resources from the Water Sustainability Chair at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
- Civil Engineer, Técnica Federico Santa María university, Chile
- Ph.D., Nebraska-Lincoln university, USA