Dr. Jairo N. Diaz-Ramirez is currently an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Mississippi State University. He received his B.S. in Agricultural Engineering from Universidad Nacional de Colombia & Universidad del Valle, Colombi and M.S. in Civil Engineering at University of Puerto Rico in 2004. Dr. Diaz earned his PhD in Civil Engineering, Mississippi State University in 2007. He is now the Director of Mississippi River Research Center of Alcorn State University.

Dr. Diaz’s research interests involve Computational modeling of hydrological transport for numerical forecasting of water quality,Evaluation of nutrient concentrations in freshwater systems and Trends in water quality related to changes in land use