Team

Doctors, masters, graduates and students working together across the group's six research lines.

Researchers

Daniel David Otero Meza

Group director and Programme 3 coordinator

PhD in Energy Engineering – Agro-industrial Engineer

Professor in the Department of Agricultural Engineering at Universidad de Sucre. Works on techno-economic and life cycle assessment, energy recovery from waste, data modelling and artificial intelligence.

Eduardo David Arroyo Dagobeth

Deputy director and Programme 1 coordinator

PhD in Energy Engineering – MSc in Biotechnology – Agro-industrial Engineer

Professor in the Department of Agro-industrial Engineering at Universidad de Sucre. Researches the thermochemical conversion, gasification and densification of agro-industrial residues.

Rúber Frank Pérez Martínez

Researcher

MSc in Environmental Engineering – Petroleum Engineer

Petroleum engineer with an MSc in Environmental Engineering. Brings life cycle assessment, environmental assessment and data engineering to the group.

Ricardo José Tatis Díaz

Researcher

MSc in Sustainable Development – Biologist

Biologist with an MSc in Sustainable Development. Works on sustainable agriculture, ecosystem conservation and restoration, and environmental management.

Jasson Henrique Álvarez Mercado

Researcher

Agro-industrial Engineer

Agro-industrial engineer and head of the Department of Agro-industrial Engineering at Universidad de Sucre. The group's link with the agro-industrial sector.

Ermides José Lozano Rivera

Researcher

MSc in Agri-food Sciences – Agro-industrial Engineer

Lecturer and researcher at Universidad de Sucre and doctoral student in Engineering. Works on the use of agro-industrial by-products and on experimental design.

Early-career and student researchers

Dusan Gavit Vergara Alemán

Early-career researcher

Agro-industrial Engineer

Agro-industrial engineer. His undergraduate thesis, awarded the laureate distinction, assessed pelletised biochar production from corncob by slow pyrolysis.

Camila Sofía Gómez Medina

Student researcher

Agro-industrial Engineering student

Agro-industrial Engineering student. Assesses the technical, economic and environmental feasibility of waste-to-energy projects at landfills.

Samuel David Pizarro Orozco

Student researcher

Agro-industrial Engineering student

Agro-industrial Engineering student. Assesses the energy recovery of municipal waste with machine learning and Monte Carlo simulation.