Francisco Vallés

Francisco Vallés is an engineer and professor of Hydraulic Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV). He specializes in water engineering and has been involved in developing hydraulic systems for disaster response, particularly for locating missing persons during catastrophic events. Vallés recently made headlines for his testimony regarding the serious flooding in Valencia caused by a Dana weather system in October, where he emphasized the importance of heeding advance warnings from the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet), which had predicted severe weather conditions days before the disaster.