Associate Professor
Dr. Josué Medellin-Azuara is an Associate Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Merced. Josué is also an Associate Director for the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences and the UC Agricultural Issues Center, and an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. Josué is the principal investigator for the economic impact assessments of recent California droughts on agriculture and communities and has also served in various capacities in climate change regional assessments, environmental justice in water security, and international collaborative projects with universities and other organizations around water resources management and agriculture. Josué holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical and electrical engineering from the Monterrey Tec, a master’s in business administration from the Monterrey Tec, as well as a master’s in agricultural and resource economics, and a Ph.D. in Ecology-Environmental Policy from UC Davis.