Rafael Pimentel received the bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Granada, Granada, Spain, in 2011, and the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in hydrology from the University of Cordoba, Córdoba, Spain, in 2011 and 2014, respectively. He has developed his career in the field of hydrology in mountainous semiarid regions. After his international experience at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Sweden, he broadened his research to global hydrology, being one of the researchers involved in setting up of the World-Wide HYPE. Since September 2023, he has been an Assistant Professor at the University of Córdoba. He mainly researches snow dynamics by combining in situ and remote sensing information with physically based hydrological modelling in Mediterranean areas.