Boris Ochoa-Tocachi is a Postdoctoral Researcher from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London, United Kingdom. Boris is a Hydrologist and Civil Engineer with both academic and professional experience in Andean hydrology, hydrological monitoring and modelling, and water resources management. He has been an international consultant for the Regional Initiative for Hydrological Monitoring of Andean Ecosystems (iMHEA), for ATUK strategic consultancy, for the Community Tourism Network of Austral Ecuador (Pakariñan), and researcher in Universidad de Cuenca, Ecuador. In the Consortium for the Sustainable Development of the Andean Ecoregion (CONDESAN), he worked in projects such as “MOUNTAIN-EVO: Adaptive Governance of Mountain Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation Enabled by Environmental Virtual Observatories”, “PRAA: Project for Adaptation to the Accelerated Retreat of Glaciers in the Tropical Andes”, and CGIAR’s “CPWF: Challenge Program on Water and Food” – Andes. Boris holds a Civil Engineering degree with distinction (2011) from Universidad de Cuenca, an MSc with distinction in Hydrology and Water Resources Management (2014) and a PhD in Civil Engineering Research (2019) from Imperial College London. He has received several prizes for academic excellence, including the Benigno Malo prize at Universidad de Cuenca (2012), and both the Letitia Chitty Centenary Memorial and Victor Appleby Prizes in Engineering Hydrology at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London (2015). Boris received an Imperial College President's PhD Scholarship and was part of the Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet Doctoral Training Partnership between NERC and the Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment. His research focuses on the interface between hydrological process understanding, ecosystem service management, and sustainable development, with a special focus in remote mountain environments. Currently, Boris investigates on how to combine indigenous knowledge and nature-based solutions with traditional hydrological engineering to solve problems related to national and global water security.