Miguel Porto completed the degree in Biology in 2002, in the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. In the subsequent two years, he has collaborated in scientific projects coordinated by the Natural History Museum and Botanical Garden of the University of Lisbon related to vegetation studies and mapping. From 2003 to 2007, he worked in an environmental consultancy company as a biologist/botanist, collaborating in Protected Areas Management Plans and applied scientific projects. From 2007 to 2013 he conducted his PhD studies, obtaining the PhD degree in 2013, in Biology (Ecology sub-area) issued by the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. The PhD thesis was entitled «Management of multi-ownership Mediterranean forest landscapes: balancing biodiversity conservation and fire risk reduction», and studied the effects of human management practices in the diversity and structure of native cork oak forests, while providing operational landscape-scale management solutions to reconcile biodiversity conservation and fire risk reduction. After the PhD and up to the present, he has been a post-doc researcher and then a hired researcher (from 2019 onwards) in CIBIO/InBIO – Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, now BIOPOLIS-CIBIO. Since 2010, he has co-authored 35 papers indexed in Scopus (h-index 15), of which 16 in the past 5 years (2019-2024), plus 9 in non-Scopus indexed journals, during which he acquired important species modeling, community modeling and data analysis skills. Main research topics of the publications include terrestrial and landscape ecology, and biodiversity in agricultural and forest systems, but extend to biogeography, conservation, biological invasions, molecular ecology, phylogeny and movement ecology. Non-Scopus research includes the description of a new plant species to science and several new country records. He has participated as a researcher in 11 scientific projects of competitive programs, and as a general coordinator of a techno-scientific nation-wide conservation project, the Red List of the Vascular Flora of Continental Portugal, having authored the extinction risk assessments of 44 species. He co-supervised two master thesis, one undergraduate thesis, was the jury examiner of one master thesis, and was a lecturer and organizer of 6 botany courses. In parallel with his scientific path, he has been involved in many scientific dissemination events and initiatives, notably in the publication of a book series «Botany in Portuguese» («Colecção Botânica em Português»), comprising 9 books delving into the different subareas of Botany for the general public, of which he is editor/co-editor of two books and co-author of other two books. He also coordinates, and is developer of, the scientific dissemination portal Flora-On.pt, a comprehensive database and dissemination platform on the flora of Portugal.