Rodrigo Carballo Sanchez

Rodrigo Carballo Sanchez serves as a Professor in the Department of Agroforestry Engineering at the Higher Polytechnic School of Engineering, University of Santiago de Compostela. He is actively affiliated with the Strategic Grouping in Sustainable Management and Production of Bioresources (BioReDes) and the CIGEO Integrated Civil Engineering and Geomatics Group, focusing on hydraulic engineering applications in sustainable resource systems.

His educational background includes dual doctoral qualifications: a 2009 PhD from the University of Santiago de Compostela for research on Numerical modeling of the currents in the estuary of Muros y Noya and their energy potential supervised by Dr. Jose Gregorio Iglesias Rodríguez, and a 2016 PhD from the University of A Coruña (corrected from 'Coruña' in source) for A holistic methodology cum database for wave energy exploitation implementation on the Galician coast co-supervised by Dr. Jose Angel Fraguela Formoso and Dr. Jose Gregorio Iglesias Rodríguez.

Research interests center on Renewable Energy systems—particularly wave energy conversion—and Hydraulic Engineering, with specialization in numerical modeling of coastal currents and sustainable bioresource management. His work integrates civil engineering techniques with geomatics for Galician coastal applications through BioReDes and CIGEO initiatives.

Current research activities emphasize optimizing wave energy exploitation frameworks and estuarine current modeling, contributing to sustainable energy solutions in Northwestern Spain's unique coastal environment through strategic institutional collaborations.