Category: Seminars and Conferences
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Thursday, April 4th 2024

Seminar in the framework of the REMIND Project

11 am - Politecnico di Torino, DIATI Entrance 2, Meeting Room 2nd floor

Prof. Maria Fernanda Rivera Velásquez and Prof. Pablo Vanegas Peralta are both carrying out research activities at DIATI in the framework of the REMIND - Renewable Energie for Water Treatment and REuse in Minin Industries project.

In this seminar they will focus on:

  • "Dinamiche psicosociali ambientali delle comunità rurali: un'analisi fattoriale confermativa” Prof. Rivera Velásquez (in Italian)
  • "Satellite Images Processing for Vegetation Cover" Prof. Vanegas Peralta (in English)
Speakers' bio:
Maria Fernanda Rivera Velásquez si è laureata in Ingegneria Ambientale presso l'Università Nazionale di Chimborazo (Ecuador) e ha conseguito un Dottorato di Ricerca in Fisica Applicata presso l'Università della Calabria (Italia). Durante il suo dottorato si è occupata di Idrologia e Idraulica del sottosuolo.
Da gennaio 2020 è Professoressa di Ruolo presso la Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo (Ecuador).

Pablo Vanegas Peralta
Current Position: Full Professor Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo (ESPOCH), Riobamba, Ecuador
Education:
  • PhD in engineering, 2010, Engineering Faculty, Center for Industrial Management, Traffic and Infrastructure, Mechanical Engineering Department, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium.
    Thesis: A Spatially Explicit Approach to the Site Location Problem in Raster Maps with Application to Afforestation.
  • MSc in Artificial Intelligence, 2006, Engineering Faculty, Computer Science Department, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium.
  • Computer Science, 1997, Engineering Faculty, Universidad de Cuenca, Ecuador.
Area of interest: Optimization, mathematical programming, heuristics and metaheuristics. With particular emphasis on spatial optimization, spatial and interaction.
Research: Three co-supervisions of PhD thesis at the KU Leuven (Belgium). Director of five research projects, two of them with grants from international calls (VLIR-UOS).
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