Luis Carlos Alfaro Monge

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.