I earned my PhD in 2007 from the University of Porto and the Marine Biological Association of the UK, focusing on the biogeographic changes of rocky intertidal species along the Atlantic coast of Europe. From 2007 to 2013, I was a postdoc at Dr. DS Wethey’s lab at the University of South Carolina, USA, where I expanded my skills in programming, modeling, and climatology and ventured into electronics. I also conducted field studies on both coasts of the USA. Since 2013, I have been an independent assistant researcher at CIBIO, UP, and leader of my research group since 2017. My h-index is 32. I published 2 book chapters, 1 book, 3 conference proceedings, 4 datasets, and 57 papers with more than 4300 citations, indicating a considerable impact in my field. I was either the lead or senior author in 22. A total of 8 papers were published in major multidisciplinary journals (Nature, Nature Climate Change, Nature Communications, PNAS, Scientific Reports). 37/57 were published in Q1 journals, including five in Global Change Biology, ranked 1st in the area of Biodiversity Conservation. I have been working on climatic reconstruction and analysis, showing that temperature plays a significant role in shaping modern and historic coastal communities. My research group is the only one studying coastal biodiversity and biogeography change along the entire Atlantic coast of Europe. We have been leading the design of rugged autonomous loggers capable of measuring temperature at the scale of organisms. This represents a genuine breakthrough and transformed our research along with that of hundreds of scientists across the globe. It also enabled us to establish the world's most extensive rocky shore temperature and biodiversity monitoring network, CCTBON (coastalwarming.com/cctbon). The largest of its kind in the world, it spans both Atlantic coasts, from the Arctic to the Antarctic, including most mid-Atlantic archipelagos. We have also been innovating how large volumes of data are analyzed and synthesized. I have already secured €829k in salary grants, €805k as PI in project grants, €1,347k as co-PI, and €1,373k as a team member (totalling €4.35 Million). I supervised 5 MSc and 2 PhD students, and currently have 2 MSc and 5 PhD students. I established collaborations leading to publications with more than 170 researchers from 25 countries, and I have been invited to several international consortiums (e.g., COST actions, IABO, ARCBON). I am a co-founder of ElectricBlue CRL, a technology transfer start-up developing environmental monitoring and biologging instruments (electricblue.eu). I reviewed for 6 grant agencies, including NASA, and for a large variety of journals – I am currently ranked in the 96th percentile at Publons. I am an Associate Editor at Frontiers. I delivered numerous talks at international congresses and workshops (22 under invitation, 2 keynote) and various seminars in Europe and the US. Since 2022, I have been an Invited Assistant Professor at ICBAS, UP, Portugal, where I co-chair an MSc-level and a BSc-level class, each worth 5 credits.