Juan Castilla-rho
Founder at University of Canberra
New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolJuan Castilla-rho is a founder and senior environmental modeller with 11 years’ experience translating socio-hydrology and groundwater science into policy-ready tools and large-scale projects across Australia and Chile. With a PhD in agent-based groundwater modelling and an MEngSc in Water Resources, he has led multimillion-dollar, multidisciplinary research programs—including the world’s first coupled behavioural and integrated hydrological model used by NSW’s Natural Resources Access Regulator. He combines academic leadership and teaching with hands-on engineering, having delivered operational groundwater models, participatory modelling platforms, and web-based tools that inform regulation, mining impacts and basin-scale planning. Juan has a track record of securing competitive ARC and international funding and of converting research into government-ready decision support systems at state and basin scales. Not obvious from job titles: he pairs advanced agent-based and machine learning workflows with stakeholder engagement methods, enabling models that predict not just hydrology but human behaviour around water use. Based in New South Wales, he builds bridges between academia, industry and regulators to scale actionable environmental modelling.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
2015 Complex Systems Summer School, Complex Adaptive Systems, 2015 Complex Systems Summer School, Complex Adaptive Systems at Santa Fe InstituteBSc, Civil Engineering, BSc, Civil Engineering at University of Cape TownBSc(Hons), Water Engineering, BSc(Hons), Water Engineering at Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileUNSW Sydney
Spanish, English
Github Skills (32)
modeling10
kucoin9
python9
telegram-bot9
backtesting-trading-strategies8
trading8
trading-bot7
cryptocurrency7
binance7
morris7
uncertainty6
portal6
parameter-estimation6
crypto6
bitcoin6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
juancastilla/FlowLogo
Sep 2016 - Nov 2020
Contributions:30 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 2 months
juancastilla/CST-Workbench
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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