Miguel Ángel Pardo is a senior lecturer at the University of Alicante (Department of Civil Engineering), where he has worked since 2011. He is a member of the Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering Research Group (INGHA). To date, Miguel Ángel Pardo has taught for 15 years (3,202 hours accumulated up to the 2025–2026 academic year) in the field of hydraulic engineering. The courses are related to hydraulic engineering, hydrology and fluid mechanics. He has taught on various undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. In terms of research, Miguel Ángel Pardo typically works in different fields: energy optimisation in pressurised distribution networks, the use of solar energy for direct application in pressurised networks, agrivoltaics and the sustainable management of drinking water distribution infrastructure.

Between 2005 and 2009, Miguel Ángel Pardo held an FPI grant awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology, reference number CGL2004-05507. During his pre-doctoral studies, Miguel Ángel Pardo undertook a four-month research placement at the Centre for Water Systems at the University of Exeter in 2008. Research visit (6 months) to Wageningen University and Research (WUR) (Netherlands) (CAS21/00085) in 2022, and to the Fraunhofer Institute ISE in Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany) (5 months) (PRX23/00582) in 2025, and (two months) (ACIE25-16) in 2026. He has also undertaken teaching visits to the Polytechnic University of Bari (2017), the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences (2019), the Warsaw University of Technology (2023) and Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (2024).

Miguel Ángel Pardo has participated in an Erasmus+ European research project (KA-220-HED) as the principal investigator for the Spanish group, and in an emerging research project (GRE16-08) under the University of Alicante’s own research programme. He is also involved in a European project funded by the European Commission entitled Transform4Europe - T4EU: The European University for Knowledge Entrepreneurs. Furthermore, he has participated in two research projects under the national plan (CGL2004-05507/HID and PID2022-140060NB-I00) and two others funded by the Valencian Regional Government (GV/2020/059 and CIAICO/2024/130).

Miguel Ángel has been involved in 11 contracts with companies and has developed three software programmes for teaching and research purposes: one for locating leaks in pressurised water distribution networks, one for calculating energy audits, and one for sizing solar photovoltaic installations that supply pressurised irrigation networks. Miguel Ángel has participated in 24 teaching innovation projects (acting as Principal Investigator in 4 of them), has supervised 3 PhD theses (2 currently in progress), 13 Master’s final projects (2 international) and 40 undergraduate final projects. His scientific output also includes 39 publications in JCR journals, 2 publications indexed in Scopus, 4 scientific publications in non-indexed journals, 1 book as editor, 23 chapters in scientific research books, 20 chapters in teaching research books, 29 contributions to national and international conferences and 8 contributions to teaching conferences. 2 research awards. (2 six-year research periods, 2 five-year periods)