Dalia Marín, a student of the Master’s in Remote Sensing at Universidad Mayor, was awarded the 2025 University Research Valorization Fund (VIU) with her project Sibila, an innovative proposal that seeks to predict landslides through artificial intelligence, machine learning, and geophysical models.
Researcher Paul Amouroux, faculty member at the Hémera Center of Universidad Mayor, has been awarded the Innovation + Entrepreneurship grant from ANID’s Ciencia 2030 program to lead the project “HEPiaspis: Entomopathogenic fungi for the biological control of pest scale insects”
Blanca Ríos, researcher at the Hémera Center, will lead an four-month innovative project aimed at designing and validating a low-cost system to measure indoor air quality in real time in households with different types of heating, such as wood stoves, kerosene heaters, and electric systems. The research seeks to evaluate the air quality of Chilean homes
Francisco Zambrano will develop a joint study with the Genomics and Bioinformatics Center (CGB) of the U. Mayor, which aims to determine the relationship between potential groundwater zones and the phenology of avocado and sclerophyllous forest in the Aconcagua River basin
The initiative, supported by the Universidad Complutense (Spain), Universidad de La Serena and Dirección General de Aguas (DGA), will evaluate the water response of groundwater-dependent ecosystems to drought and climate change.