Miguel Ángel Pardo is associate professor 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). Currently, Miguel Ángel Pardo has been teaching for 15 years (2844.38 hours accumulated until 2024-2025) in the area of hydraulic engineering. The subjects are related to hydraulic engineering, hydrology and fluid mechanics. He has taught in several degree and master's degree programmes. Regarding research, Miguel Ángel Pardo usually works in different fields: energy optimisation in pressurised distribution networks, use of solar energy for direct use in pressurised networks, water reuse and sustainable management of drinking water distribution infrastructures.
During the years 2005-2009, Miguel Ángel Pardo held an FPI grant awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology with reference number CGL2004-05507. During the pre-doctoral period, Miguel Ángel Pardo carried out a stay at the ‘Centre for Water Systems’ (4 months) at the University of Exeter in 2008. Research stay (6 months) at Wageningen University and Research (WUR) (The Netherlands) (CAS21/00085) in 2022, and in 2025 he is carrying out a research stay (5 months) at the Fraunhofer Institute ISE in Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany) (PRX 2023). He has also carried out teaching stays at the Polytechnic of Bari (2017), at the Fachhochschule Salzburg (2019), at the Politechnika Warszawska (2023) and at the Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (2024).

Miguel Ángel Pardo has participated in a European Erasmus+ research project (KA-220-HED) as PI of the Spanish group and in a European project funded by the European Commission entitled Transform4Europe - T4EU: The European University for Knowledge Entrepreneurs. He has also participated in a research project of the national plan (CGL2004-05507/HID) and another of the Generalitat Valenciana (GV/2020/059). Previously, Miguel Ángel Pardo was PI of an emerging research project (GRE16-08) of the University of Alicante's own research programme. Miguel Ángel has participated in 10 contracts with companies and has developed three computer programmes for teaching and research purposes for the allocation of leaks in a pressurised water distribution network, for the calculation of energy audits and for the sizing of solar photovoltaic installations that supply pressurised irrigation networks. Miguel Ángel has participated in 23 teaching innovation projects (being PI in 4 of them), has supervised 1 Doctoral Thesis, 12 Master's Degree Projects (2 International) and 37 Final Degree Projects. His scientific production also includes 33 publications in JCR journals, 2 publications indexed in Scopus, 4 publications indexed in Scopus, 4 scientific publications in non-indexed journals, 1 book as editor, 23 chapters of scientific research books, 20 chapters of teaching research books, 25 contributions to national and international conferences and 7 contributions to teaching conferences. 2 research awards.