Luis Carlos Alfaro Monge holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Costa
Rica, a Professional Master’s degree in Hydraulic Engineering from the same university, and a
Master’s degree in Civil Engineering with a specialization in Hydraulic Engineering from the
Technische Universiteit Delft (TU Delft) in the Netherlands.
His academic background encompasses topics directly related to marine energy, such as
computational modeling of hydraulic flow, hydraulic structures, wave physics in oceanic and coastal
waters, hydropower engineering, coastal dynamics, ports and dredging.
His professional career has primarily developed within the Costa Rican Institute of Electricity (ICE), an
institution recognized for its commitment to sustainability and the implementation of renewable energy
projects. Within the institution, in a first stage (2011-2017), he worked as a hydraulic engineer, mainly
on hydropower projects. In a second stage (2023 to date), he has been part of the Energy and
Electrical Development Area of the Planning and Sustainability Division of ICE, an area responsible for
estimating the energy potential of the different available renewable sources and coordinating the
identification, pre-feasibility, and feasibility studies of energy projects, mainly from renewable sources.
In this second stage, he has participated in the supervision of studies for the development of
capacities for the future implementation of offshore wind energy in Costa Rica. These studies cover
technical (infrastructure, marine climate, among others) social and environmental aspects of the
technology’s implementation.
Concurrently, since 2016, he has served as a thesis examiner at the Autonomous University of Central
America (UACA), specifically in the field of hydraulic engineering.
Internationally, in 2018 and 2019, he worked in the department Hydronamic of the Dutch company
Boskalis as a hydraulic engineering consultant and on the development of his master’s thesis,
focusing on sediment transport and management during dredging operations in waterways and
coastal areas, to comply with environmental requirements and to develop more sustainable dredging
techniques.
