Monica Frickmann Young Buckmann

Graduated in Civil Engineering with an emphasis on Hydraulic Works and Sanitation from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ, 1992), Master in Civil Engineering from COPPE/UFRJ (1996), and Ph.D. in Ocean Engineering from COPPE/UFRJ (2019). She has extensive experience in Civil and Environmental Engineering, focusing on Water Resources and Coastal Engineering. Her main areas of expertise include sanitation, railway and highway drainage, water supply and treatment, watercourse channeling and lining projects, paving, environmental hydrodynamics, computational modeling of hydrodynamic circulation in free-surface water bodies, pollution control and water quality, sedimentological processes, coastal and fluvial works, dredging, submarine outfalls, and environmental impact assessment. She also has experience in modeling complex estuaries, including the Lower Amazon. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)