Doctor in Environmental Sciences - Master in Agricultural Economics - Agricultural Engineer, Full Professor at the Agrarian University of Ecuador - Faculty of Agricultural Economics. Among his research interests are the aspects related to the soil - water - plant - climate relationship, management and control of agricultural irrigation and drainage and the environmental economic valuation of natural resources. He has participated in more than 8 research projects, both as an assistant researcher and a project director. All these projects have been developed in the field of the soil - water - plant - climate relationship and its environmental economic feasibility analysis. He has directed 5 master's theses and more than 5 third-level end-of-career projects. He has also published 21 works in national and international indexed journals; of them 2 in Level 2 and 5 in Level 3. He has published 4 texts nationwide, editor in 9 scientific books. He participates as a member of the editorial committee of the magazine "El Misionero del Agro" and of the annual publication "The fifth ove of the progress of humanity: The protection of the Environment". I have made specializations and academic collaboration in Israel, Spain, Cuba, Peru and Chile. RESEARCHER - ACCREDITED - Aggregate Researcher 2 - REG-INV-17-01870