Affiliation

Miguel F. Acevedo is a Regents Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department, a member of the Institute of Applied Sciences (Graduate Program in Environmental Sciences) and the Advanced Environmental Research Institute (AERI).

Education and experience

Acevedo obtained his PhD in Biophysics from the University of California, Berkeley (1980) and Masters in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from Berkeley (Master of Eng, 1978) and the University of Texas at Austin (MS, 1972). He was a faculty member of UNT's Geography department from 1992-2007, achieving the distinction of Regents Professor in 2006, and the Citation for Distinguished Service to International Education in 2007. Before joining UNT in 1992 he was at the Universidad de Los Andes (ULA), MÈrida, Venezuela, where he taught since 1973 in the School of Systems Engineering and the Program in Tropical Ecology. At ULA, he is now an associate of the Center of Systems, Simulation and Modeling and active in the research group on Biodiversity and Sustainable Development of the School of Forestry and Environmental Sciences.

Interests

His major research interests are to integrate environmental modeling and real-time monitoring applications to sustainability. Particularly environment-energy-food nexus, land-use change, renewable power systems,landscape and forest ecology; coupled human-natural systems; watershed and reservoir management;wireless sensors, biosensors and environmental observatories; global climate change and variability.

Global

International activities are an important component of his program. He has delivered invited lectures and seminars at several universities in the USA, Venezuela, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Spain, and China; sustaining active international academic collaborations with these universities. Recently, he has organized Field Schools in Mexico, Spain, and Nepal on human-environment interactions.

Consulting

In addition to teaching and research, he has served on the Science Advisory Board of the US EPA and many panels for the US NSF. He has also served as consultant to the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, to Venezuelan development agencies, to the Venezuelan Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources, and Venezuelan oil and hydropower industries on projects related to environmental impact of energy development plans, reservoirs and industrial activities.