Ruth Sofia La Fuente Pillco is postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Water and Climate at the VUB in Brussels. Her investigation focuses on the impacts of climate change on the hydrological cycle of lakes at local, regional and global scales. She did her Master of Water Resources Engineering in Belgium and moved to Ireland for her Doctoral research on the impacts of climate change on lake evaporation. She is currently working in collaboration with international networks such as the Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON) and the Inter-Sectoral Impact Modal Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP). She had a very active role as co-chair of the GLEON Student Association (GSA) and she was part of the Lake Expedition 2020, a National Science Foundation (NSF) fellowship based in the US which consisted of a team science interdisciplinary training programme that ran for three years.
Email:Â sofia.la.fuente@vub.be