Carlos Alfredo Salas Macías is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Agro-environmental Engineering, Universidad Técnica de Manabí (Ecuador). He received his Ph.D. in Engineering and Environmental Sciences from Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (Lima, Peru) in 2017 and an M.Sc. in Tropical Agroforestry from CATIE (Costa Rica) in 2010. He later completed a postdoctoral stay at the Department of Statistics, University of Salamanca (Spain) in 2020, and earned an MBA in Data Science and Analytics from the Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture, University of São Paulo (Brazil) in 2026. His work has resulted in more than 50 publications in peer-reviewed journals and books. He is a member of DRYFLOR (Latin American Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest Floristic Network), RIASCA (International Network of Researchers in Agrobiodiversity and Agroecological Systems), and RedBio (Biodiversity Research Network), and serves as a peer reviewer and editorial board member for several scientific journals. His research interests include agroforestry and tropical forest ecology, carbon stock estimation, environmental risk assessment, and the application of biostatistics and machine learning methods in environmental and agricultural sciences.
Carlos Alfredo Salas Macías is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Agro-environmental Engineering, Universidad Técnica de Manabí (Ecuador). He received his Ph.D. in Engineering and Environmental Sciences from Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (Lima, Peru) in 2017 and an M.Sc. in Tropical Agroforestry from CATIE (Costa Rica) in 2010. He later completed a postdoctoral stay at the Department of Statistics, University of Salamanca (Spain) in 2020, and earned an MBA in Data Science and Analytics from the Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture, University of São Paulo (Brazil) in 2026. His work has resulted in more than 50 publications in peer-reviewed journals and books. He is a member of DRYFLOR (Latin American Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest Floristic Network), RIASCA (International Network of Researchers in Agrobiodiversity and Agroecological Systems), and RedBio (Biodiversity Research Network), and serves as a peer reviewer and editorial board member for several scientific journals. His research interests include agroforestry and tropical forest ecology, carbon stock estimation, environmental risk assessment, and the application of biostatistics and machine learning methods in environmental and agricultural sciences.