Now in a job position where managerial, technical, project skills are applicable and relevant to everyday challenges at Enel Green Power.
He has been participating as team member in 100+ projects in Italy and abroad since 2011.

He was included in the list of highly qualified European Engineers in 2022, being awarded the prestigious title of EUR ING and the Freedom of the City of London in 2025.

His engineering experience/expertise covers the main following areas:

?? Dam safety (monitoring, inspections,...).
?? Hydropower plants control, surveillance and maintenance plans definition and management, in order to avoid failures and power plants' out of services (Forensic Engineering).
?? Project planning and budgeting.
?? Structural/seismic, hydraulic and geotechnical design, calculation and computational analysis.
?? Hydrological calculations/Estimation of hydropower plants production in compliance with repowering activities.
?? Design of hydraulic machinery/turbines.
?? R&D.

He has also competence in managing Stakeholders relationship, with problem solving, networking, negotiation and goal-setting skills.
Among other skills: technical ability based on the above cited experience, continuous updating and professionalism and passion in carrying out projects that fall within the areas of competence.

Fernando Salazar received the Degree on Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Madrid in 2002, specializing in Hydraulics. He has worked in several dam and hydraulic projects, as well as in the development of emergency plans and hazard-potential classification of dams (being Mequinenza and Riba-Roja, in the Ebro river, among them). He is working for CIMNE since 2009, where he is the current Project Development Director.

He obtained his PhD at the UPC in 2017, qualified as Excellent Cum Laude. It focused on the application of machine learning techniques to dam monitoring data analysis. In this field, he was winner of an International Challenge organized by Verbund, the greatest hydropower company in Austria.

He has been involved in several research projects in the fields of hydraulics, dam engineering and dam safety. He is author or co-author of 15 papers in scientific journals, and around 50 contributions in conference proceedings.