AMonteiro is a geo-agroecologist focused on remote sensing modelling frameworks for conservation of mountain agro-forested landscapes under anthropogenic and climate change. Currently, he is Auxiliary Researcher (equiv. Assistant Professor) at IGOT-CEG, University of Lisbon. His approach is technological and oriented to innovative remote sensing approaches (i.e. artificial intelligence machine learning) and indicators (i.e. spectral biodiversity) to evaluate progresses towards policy objectives in mountain socio-ecological systems. The Biodiversity Strategy 2030 over grasslands, the deforestation in tropical mountain biodiversity hotspots and the reforestation in European forests are currently the target. This knowledge is supporting advanced studies (i.e. MSc), lecturing (i.e. Geocomputation) at IGOT-CEG, and active contribution in successful grant applications (i.e. ECOPOTENTIAL, EU-H2020; MARGISTAR CA21125, EU-Horizon Europe). His commitment is being gradually recognized by: co-leadership in European projects (Working Group 3 - MARGISTAR CA21125); leadership in advanced training (PEN-CAFoRR CA19128); key publishing; expansion of activities in new mountain regions together with international recognized teams (i.e. Artic (CNR), Angola & Madagascar (CIBIO-InBIO)); and by increasing media coverage of the research (i.e. Copernicus - ESA). Working since the 13th years old, the current position represents hard working and a compromise between academic duties and familiar care. He has a PhD in Agroecology from University of Milan (Italy) since 2011: PhD School 'Earth, Environment and Biodiversity', Faculty of Agriculture Sciences. During his PhD, he learned in mountain ecology and satellite remote sensing at Univ. of Basel (Inst. of Botany, Prof. Christian Korner), Univ. California-Berkeley (ESPM, Prof. Peng Gong) and University Technology Sydney (Prof. Alfredo Huete). In 2012, he returned to Europe for a junior researcher position at Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC, Italy). In 2013, he returned to Portugal and was postdoc researcher at CIBIO-InBIO until 2018. In 2019, he joined IGOT-CEG as junior research and in January 2024 became an auxiliary researcher. AMonteiro authored 31 publications in international peer-reviewed multidisciplinary journals in the areas of Remote Sensing, Land Cover/Use Change, Ecological Modelling, Geospatial Programming, Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Change. He has a h-index of 18 with over 1050 citations (source: google scholar), mean impact factor of 4.84 and cumulative impact factor of 126.4. He has other 28 contributes on chapters, technical reports and communications. He co-authored Q-PhenoMetrics and PI2GIS softwares. In 2017, he was member of the Copernicus Global Land Products Technical User Group (TUG) from European Space Agency (ESA). In 2018 and 2019, his research in Portuguese mountains was presented in the exhibition 'SPACED - protecting natural landscapes from above' in the European Parliament and covered by the ESA Copernicus magazine. In 2020, he was nominated by FCT as Portuguese delegate for the European COST action PEN-CAFoRR (CA19128). In 2021, he received the invitation from the Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche (CNR)-Institute of Geoscience and Georesources (IGG, Pisa) to become Invited Associate Researcher. In 2022, he was nominated by FCT as delegate for the COST action MARGISTAR (CA 21125). At University of Lisbon, he is member of the College on Polar and Extreme Environments (Polar2E, since 2021) and of the PhD External Advisory Committee of the Agrinatura/ERAIFT of Tropical College (since 2023). He is member of the scientific commission of Branda Cientifica de São Bento do Cando- Peneda-Gerês, the new mountain research facility of Portugal. AMonteiro is 42 years old, married and father of three children.