Biografía

Raisa comes from Loja, Ecuador. In 2015 she got a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering in Environmental Geology and Land Management. Since 2016, she has worked in public and private institutions as municipalities in Ecuador gaining experience developing activities as risk assessment, mining management, geological mapping and drone surveying. In 2018, she got a full scholarship from Fundacion Carolina of Spain to study a Master Degree in Planning and Management of Natural Disasters at the University of Alicante. During her time at Spain, she was in an internship at the Department of Regional Geographic Analysis and Physical Geography developing a detailed basic geomorphological map of Azogues canton in Ecuador. In 2020, she was working at the Private Technical University of Loja as Invited Professor teaching geology, geomorphology and climatology. Currently, she is a PhD Candidate in Physical Geography and Land Management at the University of Alicante where her main project is to assess the hydrogeomorphological risk in the middle zone of Paute river basin in the south of Ecuador.

During 2021, she was in a research stance at the University of Alicante with a three months scholarship offered by the same university. Then, she moved to Ecuador to work at Yachay Tech University as Full Professor and Researcher teaching mainly geomorphology, and now she is part of several projects.

 

Research interest

– Geological survey
– Geomorphology
– GIS and remote sensors
– Geological hazard and risk assessment
– Sedimentary basin analysis
– Hydrogeomorphological research.

 

Publications

– Torres R.I., Tambo W.S., Valarezo J.M., Gonzalez F.A., Benavides J.L., Generation of Geology, Geomorphology and Geological Threats for the Updating of the Development and Land Management Plan of Quilanga canton of Loja Province, scale 1:25.000. IJEAT.

– Torres, R. (2021). “Análisis Espacio-Temporal de los eventos ocurridos (movimientos en masa), en el período 2012 – 2020, en la zona centro de la cuenca del río Paute – Ecuador” [poster]. XI Workshop de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, España. http://hdl.handle.net/10045/114795

– Torres, R. (2022). “Estimación morfométrica de la erosión lateral del río Burgay producida por las precipitaciones del 20 de abril de 2022” [poster]. XII Workshop de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, España. http://hdl.handle.net/10045/123388

– Torres, R. et al (2022). Análisis de la dinámica fluvial del río Burgay al norte de la ciudad de Azogues (Ecuador) y su influencia en el medio urbano mediante técnicas fotogramétricas y twitter api. XVII Coloquio Ibérico de Geografía. Nuevas fronteras y nuevos horizontes en la Geografía Ibérica: políticas y transformaciones territoriales. Libro de Actas (pp. 312-331), ISBN: 978-84-124962-5-3, https://coloquioiberico2020.usal.es/es/documentos

– Torres, R. y Freire, K. (2022). Vehículos aéreos no tripulados en el análisis y monitoreo de eventos adversos en la zona centro de la cuenca del Río Paute, Ecuador. XVII Coloquio Ibérico de Geografía. Nuevas fronteras y nuevos horizontes en la Geografía Ibérica: políticas y transformaciones territoriales. Libro de Actas (pp. 312-331), ISBN: 978-84-124962-5-3, https://coloquioiberico2020.usal.es/es/documentos

 

Member of Research Groups

Grupo de Investigación Geología y Geofísica Aplicada (GYGA-EARTH)