Dr. Alvarez is a Civil Engineer from the National University of Colombia (2007) with a Master's (2010) and a Ph.D. in Geography from Arizona State University (ASU) (2015). Currently, Dr. Alvarez is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Earth, Environmental and Resource Science, and Adjunct Faculty at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the University of Texas at El Paso. She is a National Science Foundation CAREER awardee and a former NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow. During her postdoctoral appointment, Dr. Alvarez was affiliated to the Center for Autonomous Sensing and Sampling (CASS) under the College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences at the University of Oklahoma and the River Dynamics Research Group under the Department of Geography at Simon Fraser University. In the years that followed, Dr. Alvarez held a position as a Lecturer in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability at the University of Oklahoma (2015-2017). She joined UTEP in 2020 and she is the director of the GeoSenSE (Geospatial Sensing and Sampling for the Environment) Research Lab.

 

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Dr. Alvarez has been the awardee of NSF CAREER and NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship under the Division of Earth Science and the Dissertation Completion Fellowship at ASU. Other awards include the ASU Graduate Fellowship and Anthony Brazel Research Exam Award.

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