Luis Gomez

Luis Gomez is a Lecturer at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley with joint appointments in Civil Engineering. His expertise spans hydraulic structure design, watershed management, and climate adaptation strategies.

Research domains include:

• Water resource systems under climate variability
• Hydroinformatics for hydraulic engineering
• Food-water-energy nexus optimization
• Computational fluid dynamics applications

He leads the Global Change Research Group investigating human-environment interactions through computational modeling. Current projects examine hydrological responses to land cover changes and climate scenarios.