Maria do Rosário Partidário is Full Professor of Planning, Urbanism and Environment of the Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Georesources of the Instituto Superior Técnico of the University of Lisbon (IST-UL). With a profile in Environment, Planning and Sustainability, she holds a PhD on Strategic Environmental Assessment in 1992 from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, an MSc on Regional and Urban Planning in 1990 from the Technical University of Lisbon, and a 1st degree on Environmental Engineering in 1982 from the New University of Lisbon - Faculty of Sciences and Technology. Maria is a researcher in CiTUA (Centre for Innovation in Territory, Urbanism & Architecture) in IST-UL, where she coordinates the scientific line Planning, Management & Governance of Contemporary Urban Territories. She is also the former President of CEG-IST (Centre for Management Studies of the IST), where she coordinated the research line Environmental and Sustainability Strategies (SENSU). Maria's supervised and co-supervised +80 Post-Doc, PhD, and MSc thesis, nationally and internationally. She is a member of the executive committee of the IST Environment Platform, coordinator of the PhD on Environmental Engineering, the PhD on Territorial Engineering, and co-coordinator of the MSc on Spatial Planning and Urbanism. She has also been involved in several other management activities within IST. Her scientific interests involve the areas of Environment and Sustainability, Strategy and Governance, Social-ecological Systems and Ecosystem Services, Planning and Environmental and Social Policies, with emphasis on Strategic Assessment for Sustainability and Social Innovation in processes of Transition to Sustainability. She is one of the pioneers in the area of strategic assessment for sustainability, co-edited one of the first books on this subject published in 1996, and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) in 2015. She is internationally active in various programmes of the United Nations, the World Bank, and the European Union, and collaborates in development support programmes with various bi-lateral agencies. Throughout her career, Maria authored and co-authored +50 peer-reviewed scientific articles and book chapters, edited 4 books, participated (as presenter or invited guest speaker) in +100 international conferences, and participated in +30 Portuguese, European and International scientific and applied research projects. Noteworthy for Maria in the last 5 years are the participation in: the H2020 project ROBUST, responsible for the community of practice Ecosystem Services and support the Living Lab implementation in Portugal; the Interreg-MED project ConFish, responsible for participatory action activities in several European countries; the FCT project TRUST, coordinator of the project in the field of innovation and sustainability transitions; and the FCT project BRIDGE, coordinator of the project in the field of community based disaster risk reduction. Maria is the overall coordinator of the Horizon Europe project BioValue, that involves seven European partners, which focus on the transformative potential of spatial planning to invert current trends of biodiversity loss. Maria is also co-authoring the Book "Role of Ecosystem Services in enabling rural-urban synergies", to be published in Springer, currently in editorial work.