The Environmental and Sustainable Development Research Group (GIADES for its acronym in Spanish) was created in 2018 by a group of environmental engineering professors – researchers in our branch campus in Quito. Its aim is to create knowledge based on scientific research and provide solutions to environmental problems. 

Coordinator:

César Iván Álvarez, MSc.

Contact:

calvarezm@ups.edu.ec

Lines of research 

Technologies applied to natural resources

Biodiversity and genetic resources

Geospatial sciences