Full Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra (Portugal); lectures courses in the area of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Water Resources.
Area of specialization: hydrology, urban hydrology, drainage and soil conservation and water. At present: Coordinator of the Scientific Research Area of Hydraulics, Water Resources and Environment of the University of Coimbra; Coordinator of Thematic Line 1—Hydraulics, Hydrology and Sedimentary Environment of MARE—Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre.
Publications: more than 550 technical and scientific publications, 125 of them in international journals; guest editor of special issues of, among others, journals Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Advances in Water Resources, Non-Linear Processes in Geophysics, Die Bodenkultur, Journal for Land Management, Food and Environment, and Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics.
Services rendered: Participated in the organisation of several national and international scientific meetings held in Portugal, Spain, Austria, France, Poland, Brazil, Romania and Russia. Responsible researcher for the Portuguese participation in some European Community projects (TEMPUS and COST) and for several national projects (FCT - Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology; CNPq - Brazil); Past Coordinator of the Euromediterranean Network of Experimental and Representative Basins (ERB).
