DoctorAlberto Ardid

Lecturer

Civil and Environmental Engineering

BIO

Geophysicist and data scientist specializing in Environmental Informatics. I develop probabilistic and machine learning models for natural hazard forecasting — including volcanic eruptions, wildfires, snow avalanches, and floods — by integrating time series analysis, Bayesian inference, and deep learning with real-time observational data. My work, published in Nature Communications, the Journal of Geophysical Research, Geophysical Research Letters, and the International Journal of Wildland Fire, focuses on building forecasting tools that generalize across hazard systems and are deployable in under-resourced monitoring settings. I currently supervise postgraduate students working on eruption forecasting, wildfire prediction, avalanche detection, flood modelling, geothermal prospectivity, and the application of generative AI to hazard science.

TE WHARE WĀNANGA O WAITAHA - UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY APPOINTMENTS

  • Lecturer
    University of Canterbury, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering1 May 2021 - present

DEGREES

  • PhD Engineering Science
    University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand1 Jan 2018 - 15 Mar 2020
  • MSc Geophysics
    University of Chile, Santiago, Chile1 Mar 2014 - 1 Jul 2016
  • BSc Geophysics
    University of Chile, Santiago, Chile1 Mar 2008 - 1 Dec 2013

LANGUAGES

  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Spanish - Latin American
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review

FACULTY

  • Faculty of Engineering

FIELDS OF RESEARCH