Carolina Martinez

Renewable Hydrogen and Derivatives Leader

Carolina is a civil engineer with more than 11 years of consulting and engineering experience. She currently leads Ausenco’s renewable hydrogen and derivatives team.
Based
Santiago, Chile
Languages
English, Spanish, Portuguese, French

We can make a positive difference when we’re passionate about the things we do. I believe in challenging the status quo, seeking innovation and delivering sustainable projects that provide value to our clients.

Carolina is experienced in delivering analysis, modelling, design, planning and project management for coastal engineering, port infrastructure, waterway transportation, logistics studies, climate change studies and renewable hydrogen projects. Combining practical experience with academic research, she offers innovative solutions to project challenges. Carolina’s expertise in complex value chains and logistics, combined with her passion for energy transition, inspired her to take a holistic energy to market approach for renewable hydrogen and derivatives projects.

As a project manager and logistics consultant, she is currently providing technical inputs to the Uruguayan government through the United Nations Development Programme for its green hydrogen and derivatives strategy. The project analyses the logistics, infrastructure and territorial planning for the production and export of green hydrogen and derivatives in Uruguay.

Carolina is also leading the waterway logistics and port development scopes for an iron ore multimodal transportation project spanning Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay. In addition, she served as the lead coastal consultant for a climate change assessment study on coastal infrastructure in Antofagasta.

Carolina’s expertise extends across Latin America, where she has managed various projects and contributed to academic research and scientific papers. She holds a master’s degree in coastal engineering and port development from the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft Netherlands.

Country experience:

  • Argentina
  • Brazil
  • Canada
  • Chile
  • Haiti
  • Mexico
  • Netherlands
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Uruguay