Biografia
A Lisbon native, this is the city where I pursued my studies in Geophysical Sciences, at the Department of Physics - Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon (UL).
This 5-year degree included a final one-year internship, which I completed as a visiting scientist at University of Barcelona, Spain (2004).
I was then awarded a seed funding from the Portuguese State to create a startup that provided services of applied geophysics, mostly in groundwater and environment-related projects for companies and academia.
At the same time, I obtained a MSc in Environmental Engineering (completed 2009) from Instituto Superior Técnico, UL, and ended up dedicating completely to academia by engaging in a PhD in Earth Resources (completed 2017) at the same institution.
During those years, I focused my research on groundwater dependent ecosystems modelling, improved by applied geophysical techniques. I later moved to Instituto Dom Luiz, UL, to work on soil salinity risk assessment using applied geophysical techniques.