Curriculum Vitae
Diogo André Pinho da Costa
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Diogo André Pinho da Costa
Citation names
- Costa, Diogo
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 6116-DBED-0838
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-8841-2522
Knowledge fields
- Natural sciences - Earth and Environmental Sciences - Hydrology
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2016/05/01
Concluded
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Environmental Modelling (Doctor of Philosophy)
Major in Numerical modelling
National University of Singapore, Singapore
"An integrated modelling framework to simulate unsteady flow and reactive-transport in urban river-aquifer systems" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2015 - 2015
Concluded
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Catchment Hydrology in Cold Regions (Postgraduate Certificate)
Major in Hydrology
University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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2011/10/01
Concluded
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Hydrology and Water Management (Master)
Major in Hidráulica e hidrologia
Imperial College London, United Kingdom
"Eutrophication of Lake Diefenbaker, Saskatchewan, Canada" (3 months at the University of Saskatchewan" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2007/01/01
Concluded
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Engenharia Civil (Mestrado integrado)
Major in Hidráulica e hidrologia
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"Analysis of Water Management Strategies for the left margin of the Guadiana (Portugal) river basin - Implementation of a
decision support tool (WSM-DSS)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2006/01/01
Concluded
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Engenharia Civil (Licenciatura)
Major in Hidráulica e hidrologia
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2023/03/01 - Current | Researcher (Research) | Instituto Mediterrâneo para a Agricultura Ambiente e Desenvolvimento, Portugal |
| 2023 - 2023 | Principal Investigator (Research) | SNC-Lavalin UK Ltd, United Kingdom |
| 2019 - 2022 | Principal Investigator (Research) | Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada |
| National Hydrology Research Centre, Canada | ||
| 2019 - 2019 | Auxiliary Researcher (Research) | University of Saskatchewan, Canada |
| 2016 - 2019 | Postdoc (Research) | University of Saskatchewan, Canada |
| 2012 - 2015 | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland |
| 2006 - 2008 | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal |
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2023 - Current | Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade de Évora, Portugal |
| 2017 - 2017 | Visiting Professor (University Teacher) | University of Saskatchewan, Canada |
| 2009 - 2010 | Visiting Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade de Cabo Verde, Cape Verde |
Positions / Appointments
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2024/08/01 - Current | Coordenator of the "Soil, Water, Plant and Farming Technologies" Group | Instituto Mediterrâneo para a Agricultura Ambiente e Desenvolvimento, Portugal |
| 2023/04/01 - Current | Coordinator of the "Computational Hydrology" Group | Universidade de Évora, Portugal |
| 2023 - Current | Vogal da Assembleia Regional (Alentejo) | Associação Portuguesa dos Recursos Hídricos, Portugal |
| Associação Portuguesa dos Recursos Hídricos, Portugal |
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2009 - 2010 | Diretor Adjunto de Obra | Mota Engil - Sucursal de Cabo Verde, Cape Verde |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2021 - Current | Improved Prediction of Particulate Phosphorus and Nitrogen Runoff in the Canadian Prairies
NA
Supervisor
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Ongoing
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| 2012 - 2015 | Future Cities Laboratory (from the Singapore-ETH Centre)
PhD Student Fellow
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Future Cities Laboratory
Concluded
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| 2006 - 2008 | AquaStress ("Mitigation of Water Stress through New Approaches to Integrating Management, Technical, Economic and Institutional
Instruments")
Research Fellow
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Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia
Concluded
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Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2023 - 2027/02/28 | INTERLAYER - The complex INTERlink of safeguarding wAter availabilitY and quality to mitigate and adapt to hydroclimatic extRemes
Water4All-2022-00261
Water4All/0001/2022
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Instituto de Ciências da Terra, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2022 - 2027 | Water quality and climate impacts of prairie and northern rivers
NA
Supervisor
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Environment and Climate Change Canada |
| 2022 - 2027 | The next generation of hydrology-biogeochemistry modelling in Canada: A flexible approach to multi-physics, multi-chemistry,
and multi-scale modelling
ALLRP 571910 - 22
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
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Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Ongoing
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| 2023/07/01 - 2024/12/30 | Towards a mechanistic experimental-modelling approach to quantify the carbon balance of irrigated olive groves in Alentejo:
Expanding the current monitoring program and exploring different soil-water C-dynamics modelling approaches
UIDB/05183/2020
Principal investigator
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Ongoing
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| 2021 - 2023 | Basin mechanistic hydro-biogeochemical modelling for the Ontario Living Labs
Principal investigator
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Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Guelph Research and Development Centre |
| 2021 - 2023 | Water Quality in Canada: Validation, Interpretation, and Mobilization of Community-Based Water Monitoring
Supervisor
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| 2019 - 2023 | Agricultural Water Futures in Canada: Stressors and Solutions (Global Water Futures Program)
Supervisor
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| 2021 - 2022 | Enhance the user experience of hydro-biogeochemical models and software developed by ECCC-WHERD to facilitate use by the scientific
community
NA
Principal investigator
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Environment and Climate Change Canada |
| 2021 - 2022 | Water security to promote gender equity and climate-change resilience in West Africa (Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Advanced
Scholars Program)
Researcher
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| 2021 - 2021 | Towards an hydro-biogeochemical model for the McKenzie River Catchment
NA
Principal investigator
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Environment and Climate Change Canada |
| 2021 - 2021 | Improving and testing a Boolean logic-based web-crawler based on the SCOPUS database to enhance the scientific literature
review process
NA
Principal investigator
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada
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Concluded
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| 2019 - 2021 | Svalbard Snow Network (SnowNet) - consolidating and expanding the network for future actions
Supervisor
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| 2020 - 2020 | Hydro-chemical modelling of an arctic snowpack to evaluate the impacts of climate change
100010545
Principal investigator
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University of Saskatchewan Global Institute for Water Security
Concluded
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| 2018 - 2019 | The Nutrient App: Promoting beneficial management practices acceptance through on-farm instantaneous community-based nutrient
sampling
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
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Environment and Climate Change Canada |
| 2009 - 2011 | Evaluation of the Surface Water Potential of Cape Verde
NA
Principal investigator
Universidade de Cabo Verde, Cape Verde
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Concluded
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Other
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2011 - 2011 | Eutrophication of Lake Diefenbaker, Saskatchewan, Canada
Researcher
Imperial College London, United Kingdom
University of Saskatchewan Global Institute for Water Security, Canada |
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
| Journal article |
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| Preprint |
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Other
| Other output |
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| Software |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2023 | Invited Talk (Labscape, MED) - "Computational Hydrology - A case for multiple modelling hypotheses frameworks" | |
| 2023 | Invited Talk (Labscape, MED) - "Horizon Proposal - Lessons Learned of the BACKWATER proposal" (Orador: Diogo Costa) | |
| 2021 | How Scientists predict the future in Earth Sciences? | ”Exploring by the Seat of your Pants” (live-streamed e dispon ´ivel no YouTube |
| 2021 | Towards next-generation water quality models through the coupling of flexible hydro-chemical frameworks to well-established cold regions hydrological models. | 2021 Annual Science Meeting of the Global Water Futures (live-streamed and available on Youtube) |
| 2020 | Working for the government as a Research Scientist - a perspective of a newcomer | Society of Postdoctoral Scholars (SPS): Career & Research Day
University of Saskatchewan
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| 2020 | The Wonders of Snow | Exploring by the Seat of your Pants” (live-streamed and available on YouTube) |
| 2019 | Supporting Integrated water quantity-quality manage- ment in Canada through advances in monitoring and prediction/forecasting systems | CWRA SK Webinar Series
Canadian Water Resources Association
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| 2019 | Prediction/Forecasting Systems: Snow Hydro- biogeochemical modelling. | Svalbard Snow Network (meeting held in Poland)
Norwegian Research Council
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| 2019 | Research excellence, a critical element, but there is more to it. | Society of Postdoctoral Scholars (SPS): Career & Research Day, U of S
University of Saskatchewan
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| 2019 | Advances in modelling and prediction of hydro- biogeochemical processes in Canada. | Invited lecturer
Polytechnique Montr ´eal
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| 2019 | The Nutrient App: Promoting beneficial management practices acceptance through on-farm instantaneous community-based nutrient sampling. | ECCC Annual Symposium (Winnipeg)
Environment and Climate Change Canada (Canadian Environmental Agency)
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| 2017 | Prairie Water Quality | GIWS Annual Meeting, Saskatoon
Global Water Futures
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| 2017 | Pursuing better water quality models for the Prairies. | Seminar
Centre for Hydrology, University of Saskatchewan
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| 2017 | Learn how to structure and design a thesis. | Invited lecture
University of Saskatchewan
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| 2015 | An integrated framework for modelling river and groundwater flow, reactive-transport and exchange in river flooding urban areas. | Invited lecture
National University of Singapore
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| 2013 | Modeling the heavy polluted Ciliwung River. | Invited lecture
National University of Singapore
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| 2013 | How to improve the immune system of a river? | Invited lecture
University of Indonesia
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| 2013 | The Jakarta Study. | Invited lecture
Singapore-ETH Centre
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| 2013 | Terrain, Ecology, Habitat. | Invited lecture
Singapore-ETH Centre
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| 2013 | Scale dependence in river water quality modelling. The case of the Ciliwung, Jakarta. | Invited lecture
CREATE-Singapore
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| 2012 | Water quality sampling and modelling of the Ciliwung. | Invited lecture
University of Indonesia
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Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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| 2023/07/04 - 2023/07/04 | Invited panelist in round table. DEBATE on "Next evaluation: differentiation and societal impact of MED"
Conference
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MED Meeting 2023: Healthy soils, for food, for life and for the future
Instituto Mediterrâneo para a Agricultura Ambiente e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
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| 2023/06/07 - 2023/06/07 | Invited panellist in a round table. Regeneration of soils in the mediterranean.
Round table
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Regeneration of soils in the mediterranean
Instituto Mediterrâneo para a Agricultura Ambiente e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
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| 2023/05/02 - 2023/05/02 | Invited Speaker. Presentation on "Computational Hydrology: A case for multiple modelling hypotheses frameworks to increase
model reproducibility and quantify structural uncertainty"
Seminar
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Seminário "Física da Atmosfera e do Clima" do programa de Doutoramento em Ciências da Terra e do Espaço
Instituto de Ciências da Terra, Portugal
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Jury of academic degree
| Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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| 2021 | Improved Prediction of Particulate Phosphorus and Nitrogen Runoff in the Canadian Prairies
(Thesis) Arguer
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Peter Lawford (PhD) |
| 2019 | Water Quality Modelling in Cold Regions
Supervisor
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Peter Lawford (PhD)
University of Saskatchewan, Canada
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Conference scientific committee
| Conference name | Conference host | |
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| 2018 - 2018 | Poster competition of the 2018 Saskatoon Regional Science fair |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2023 - Current | Climatologia | Universidade de Évora, Portugal | |
| 2023 - Current | Métodos em Geografia | ||
| 2023 - Current | Projecto de Investigação em Geografia | Universidade de Évora, Portugal | |
| 2023 - Current | Discrete Event Simulations in Python | DataCamp, United States | |
| 2023 - Current | Cartografia | Universidade de Évora, Portugal | |
| 2023 - Current | Geogradia e Território | Universidade de Évora, Portugal | |
| 2023 - 2023 | Ambientes do Quaternário | Universidade de Évora, Portugal | |
| 2023 - 2023 | Geografia de Portugal | Universidade de Évora, Portugal | |
| 2017 - 2018 | Advanced Hydrology | University of Saskatchewan, Canada | |
| 2009 - 2010 | Hidrologia e hidraulica Urbana I | Engenharia Civil (Licence) | Universidade de Cabo Verde, Cape Verde |
| 2009 - 2010 | Hidrologia e hidraulica Urbana II | Engenharia Civil | Universidade de Cabo Verde, Cape Verde |
Evaluation committee
| Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | Funding entity | |
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| 2020 - 2020 | Impacts of Hydrodynamics and Environmental Parameters on a Novel In-situ Bioreactor Performance in Cold Regions
Evaluator
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Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Canada | |
| 2019 - 2019 | USA National Science NSF-Career Foundation (NSF) Grant. Title of candidate project: "Impacts of Recent Wetting on Cold Region
Hydrologic Processes and Nutrient Export in a Terminal Lake Basin"
Evaluator
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National Science Foundation, United States | |
| 2017 - 2017 | Changes in hydrological and climatic characteristics and their impact on natural wetland ecosystems in the years 1900-2100
Evaluator
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National Science Center, Poland |
Interview (newspaper / magazine)
| Activity description | Newspaper / Forum | |
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| 2020 | New U of S app tracks causes of algae bloom |
Journal scientific committee
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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| 2021 - 2023 | Guest Associate Editor within the section Cryospheric Science in Frontiers in Earth Science - Special Issue on Pan-Arctic Snow Research | Frontiers in Earth Science |
Other jury / evaluation
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2020 - 2020 | Working Group 1 contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report on Chapter 5 on "Global Carbon and other Biogeochemical Cycles and Feedbacks" | Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change, Japan |
| 2019 - 2019 | Member of the "Search Committe" para posição de cientista da agência federal Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Título da posição: Research Scientist in Agro-Hydrology: Cold Climate Processes and Model Representation | Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Atlantic Regional Office, Canada |
| 2018 - 2018 | Poster competition of the 2018 Science Meeting of the ”Changing Cold Regions Network (CCRN) | |
| 2017 - 2017 | AGU Outstanding Student Paper Awards (OSPA American Geophysical Union) | |
| 2016 - 2016 | AGU Outstanding Student Paper Awards (OSPA American Geophysical Union) |
Distinctions
Award
| 2017 | First Prize Winner of Postdoctoral Competition for most outstanding Poster
University of Saskatchewan Global Institute for Water Security, Canada
Canada Water Resources Association, Canada |
| 2016 | Prestigious postdoctoral scholarship from "Canada Excellence Research Chair in Water Security"
University of Saskatchewan Global Institute for Water Security, Canada
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| 2012 | Prestiguious PhD scholarship from Future Cities Lab (ETH-Zurich)
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland
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| 2007 | Bolsa de investigação do projeto Europeu AquaStress
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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Title
| 2023 | Investigador integrado
Instituto Mediterrâneo para a Agricultura Ambiente e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
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| 2020 | Adjunct Professor
University of Saskatchewan, Canada
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| 2019 | Fellow of Centre for Hydrology (University of Saskatchewan)
University of Saskatchewan, Canada
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| 2019 | Member of Global Institute for Water Security (GIWS)
University of Saskatchewan Global Institute for Water Security, Canada
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Other distinction
| 2023 | Membro da Assembleia Regional (vogal)
Associação Portuguesa dos Recursos Hídricos, Portugal
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| 2020 | Research Spotlight at the "Global Water Futures" newsletter
Global Water Futures, Canada
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| 2020 | Research Spotlight on ”Young Innovators Stories”
University of Saskatchewan, Canada
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| 2019 | Faculty Lead on Water Quality Modelling (Core Modelling and Forecasting Team)
Global Water Futures, Canada
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| 2018 | Recognition of Excellence, Centre for Hydrology
University of Saskatchewan, Canada
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| 2017 | Outstanding contribution in reviewing
Elsevier Canada, Canada
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