Cristóbal Soto Escobar

Civil Engineer specialized in Water Resources

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About me

I am a Civil Engineer with a strong interest in hydrology and climate. My work focuses on the analysis of extreme precipitation events in the context of a changing climate, the application of gridded datasets (such as precipitation, temperature, and evapotranspiration) in hydrological studies, and the integrated modeling of surface and groundwater systems using coupled hydrological models.

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Main Achievements

  • Publication

    Soto-Escobar, C., Zambrano-Bigiarini, M., Tolorza, V., and Garreaud, R.: Gridded Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) curves: understanding precipitation extremes in a drying climate, EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-621, 2025.

  • Fulbright

    Awarded the Fulbright BIO Doctoral Scholarship 2023, to begin in 2026. See news article here

  • 2020–Present Consulting Engineer at ICASS Spa

    Part of the modeling team for the development of Strategic Water Resource Management Plans (DGA) in:

    • Maipo River Basin

    • Coastal Basins between the Maipo and Rapel Rivers

    • Quebrada de la Concordia Basin (in development)

  • 2020 EGU General Assembly

    Zambrano M., Soto C., Baez O. Spatially-distributed IDF curves for Central-Southern Chile using IMERG, EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4–8 May 2020, EGU2020-21091. View Poster

  • January 2020 Civil Engineer – University of La Frontera

    Graduated with highest honors. Thesis: “Construction of high-resolution spatial Intensity-Duration-Frequency curves for Central-Southern Chile”

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