David Serrano Suarez

Ph.D. Student

David is a Ph.D. student at the iHydro M&D Lab, Texas Tech University, working under the supervision of Dr. Seonggyu Park. His doctoral research focuses on integrated surface water–groundwater modeling using SWAT-MODFLOW frameworks, with applications to watershed management and land-use change. He is also developing a model-agnostic framework to diagnose user–model interaction failures in complex scientific models, motivated by his engagement with hydrological modeling communities (SWAT, SWAT+, SWAT-MODFLOW). Before joining Texas Tech, David completed an M.A.Sc. in Civil Engineering (Water Resources) at the University of Victoria, Canada, where he developed a coupled SWAT-MODFLOW model of the Xwulqw’selu watershed (Vancouver Island, BC) in collaboration with Cowichan Tribes. He also holds an M.Sc. in Water Science and Engineering (Hydroinformatics) from UNESCO-IHE Delft, completed with a Netherlands Government NFP Fellowship, and a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia.