Francisco is an Associate Professor in Hydroinformatics and Integrated Hydroclimate in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering and the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Biosystems Engineering at Universidade do Sao Paulo. He is also fellow of the Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute and the University of Nebraska’s Public Policy Center. He is member of the American Meteorological Society’s Water Resources Committee. For more than twenty years, Francisco has worked on the diagnostics and predictability of natural and altered states of biogeochemical cycles and the water continuum from the atmosphere to the aquifer. His basic-to-applied research focuses on the predictability of hydrometeorological and climate extremes and their impact on water and agricultural resources. Francisco’s applied-to-basic research projects foresee the development of information technologies and models that emerged from decision and policymaker’s needs for data and information. Currently, Francisco’s lab explores the sensitivity of phenotypes and irrigation to weather and hydroclimate changes, the predictability of regime shifts in densely populated areas, integrated management of water quality and quantity across scales, and the (re)design of climate resilient infrastructure. His collaborative network includes researchers and fields of study from more than twenty countries in Asia, Europe, and the Americas, with a strong emphasis in India. Francisco’s Ph.D. is in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Duke University and has two postdoctoral experiences at University of Washington and the University of California, San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and holds a Master and Bachelor degrees in Coastal Oceanography from the Facultad de Ciencias Marinas at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, México.