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Akli Benali completed the Integrated Masters in Environmental Enginnering in 2008 by the Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia and the PhD in Sustainable Forests and Products in 2018 by the Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, where he is currently a Researcher. He has participated in more than 10 research and consulting projects, with different associated roles. He has published around 30 scientific papers, most of them, in relevant journals. In the last years, he has fostered the research and development of scientific work that can be applied in practice by stakeholders related with wildfires and landscape management. He has developed multiple partnerships with practicitioners, such as the National Authority for Emergency and Civil Protection, Special Civil Protection Force, Municipalities, Forest Associations and land owners. Akli Benali continues to pursue the implementation of scientific knowledge and products with the aim of improving decision-making in the prevention, suppression and recovery of wildfires in Portugal.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Akli Benali

Citation names

  • Benali, Akli

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
9614-439A-49AE
ORCID iD
0000-0002-4325-3804

Email addresses

  • aklibenali@gmail.com (Professional)

Telephones

Telephone
  • 213653387 (Professional)

Addresses

  • Instituto Superior de Agronomia. Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017 , Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Agrarian Sciences - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries - Forestry

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2015/01/01 - 2018/12/10
Concluded
 SUSFOR - Sustainable Forests and Products (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
"Improving our understanding of individual wildfires by combining satellite data with fire spread modelling" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Aprovado com Distinção e Louvor
2001/09/01 - 2008/04/01
Concluded
 Environmental Enginnering (Mestrado integrado)
Major in Management of Natural Systems
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Monitoring chlorophyll-a with remote sensing techniques in the Tagus Estuary" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018/12/11 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Florestais, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2015/01/01 - 2018/12/10 PhD student in the SUSFOR (Sustainable forests and products) doctoral programme Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Florestais, Portugal
2011/03/01 - 2014/12/01 Research fellow - FUME and FIRE-MODSAT-I projects Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Florestais, Portugal
2008/04/01 - 2011/02/01 Research fellow - EROSFIRE2, MODNET and MALVEO projects Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Ambiente e Sustentabilidade, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2015/01/01 - 2018/12/10 PhD in Sustainable Forests and Products (SUSFOR)
PD/BD/52692/2014
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Florestais, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2014/01/01 - 2014/12/31 FIRE-MODSAT I - Supporting FIRE-suppression strategies combining fire spread MODelling and SATellite data in an operational context in Portugal
EXPL/AGR- FOR/0488/2013
Research Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Florestais, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2011/03/01 - 2013/12/31 FUME - Forest fire under climate, social and economic changes
FP7/2007-2013 under grant agreement 243888
Research Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Florestais, Portugal
 European Commission Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development Coherence of Research Policies
Concluded
2009/09/01 - 2011/02/28 MALVEO - Vulnerability Mapping to Malaria Vector from Earth Observation Data: Anopheles atroparvus density mapping under climate scenarios for Southern Portugal
PTDC/CLI/67910/2006
Research Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2008/11/01 - 2009/08/31 MODNET - Modelling net primary productivity and carbon budget of the Portuguese forest ecosystems under different scales
PTDC/AGR-CFL/69733/2006
Research Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2008/05/01 - 2008/10/31 EROSFIRE II - A GIS-tool for slope-to-catchment-scale soil conservation management following forest wildfires
PTDC/AGR-CFL/70968/2006
Research Fellow
Instituto do Mar, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2021/01/01 - Current Towards integrated fire management in Portugal: closing the loop between fire prevention, suppression and impacts (CEEC)
CEECIND/03799/2018/CP1563/CT0003
10.54499/CEECIND/03799/2018/CP1563/CT0003
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2019/05/01 - 2022/12/31 FIRE-MODSAT II: Supporting FIRE-management decisions combining fire spread MODelling and SATellite data in an operational context in Portugal (part II)
PTDC/ASPSIL/2877/2017
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Florestais, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2021/03/01 - Current FUEL-SAT (PCIF/GRF/0116/2019)
PCIF/GRF/0116/2019
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Florestais, Portugal
Ongoing
2020/01/01 - 2023/12/31 FRISCO: managing Fire-induced RISks of water quality Contamination
PCIF/MPG/0044/2018
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
Concluded
2021/10/01 - 2023/05/09 Pilot implementation of the National Plan for Integrated Wildland Fire Management
REFORM/SC2021/063
Supervisor
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2022/10/01 foRESTER: Data fusion of sensor networks and fire spread modelling for decision support in forest fire suppression
PCIF/SSI/0102/2017
Other
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2021/01 - 2022/04/01 Integrated Landscape Management Area: AIGP Alvares
ID not existing yet
Other
Direção-Geral do Território
Concluded
2017/10/01 - 2018/10/13 Alvares - a case of resilience to fire
NA
Other
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Florestais, Portugal
 O Observador (electronic journal)
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. João Pedro Carvalho Nunes; Joana Parente; Benali, Akli; Niels Nitzsche; Sergio Prats Alegre; Sá, Ana C. L.; Carlos Brito; Dias, Luís Filipe. Práticas para a gestão de recursos hídricos em bacias hidrográficas com histórico de incêndios rurais em Portugal: Projeto FRISCO: gestão de riscos de contaminação da qualidade da água induzidos pelo fogo. Lisbon, Portugal. 2023.
    Published • 10.13140/RG.2.2.29524.37761
Book chapter
  1. Parente, Joana Raquel Mendes Cação; Nunes, João Pedro; Dias, Luis; Benali, Akli; Marques, Marta; Pelayo, Oscar González; Sá, Ana Cristina Lopes de; et al. "FRISCO: Managing fire-induced risks of water quality contamination". In Advances in Forest Fire Research 2022, 1117-1120. Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2022.
    10.14195/978-989-26-2298-9_169
  2. Oliveira, Sandra; Gonçalves, Ana; Benali, Akli; Sá, Ana C. L.; Zêzere, José L.; Pereira, José M.C.. "Assessment of wildfire exposure and vulnerability factors in Alvares, Góis: integration of structural and dynamic factors at the local scale". In Advances in forest fire research 2018, edited by Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 1184-1188. Portugal: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2018.
    10.14195/978-989-26-16-506_133
  3. Sá, Ana; Benali, Akli; Pinto, Renata; Fernandes, Paulo; Russo, Ana; Santos, Fábio; Trigo, Ricardo; et al. "Improving wildfire spread simulations using MODIS active fires: the FIRE-MODSAT project". In Advances in forest fire research, 811-822. Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2014.
    10.14195/978-989-26-0884-6_90
Conference abstract
  1. Benali, Akli; Aparício, Bruno A.; Oliveira, Sandra; Gonçalves, Ana. "Dynamic prioritization of management tools to protect settlements from large wildfires". Paper presented in VI International Congress on Risks, Coimbra, 2023.
  2. João Pedro Carvalho Nunes; Aparício, Bruno A.; Marta Carvalho; Carlos Brito; Jahanianfard, Dina; Benali, Akli; Parente, Joana; et al. "Assessing and predicting the impacts of wildfires on water quality in Portugal: Project FRISCO". Paper presented in EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, 2022.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-10710
  3. Sá, Ana C. L.; Aparício, Bruno A.; Bruni, Chiara; Benali, Akli; Silva, F.; Salis, M.; Pereira, J.M.C.. "Towards supporting prescribed fire management decisions in the Cabreira Mountain, Portugal". Paper presented in EGU General Assembly 2021 - vEGU21, 2021.
    Accepted
Conference paper
  1. Dias, Luís Filipe; João Pedro Carvalho Nunes; Joana Parente; Benali, Akli; González-Pelayo, Oscar; Sá, Ana C. L.; Jahanianfard, Dina; et al. "Avaliar os riscos dos incêndios florestais na qualidade da água em Portugal (Projeto FRISCO)". Paper presented in 16º Congresso da Água, Lisbon, 2023.
    Published
  2. Chiara Bruni; Bruno Aparício; Akli Benali; Beatriz Lourenço; Martinho Marta-Almeida; Susana Barreiro; Alfredo Rocha; Ana Sá. "Wildfire Hazard and Risk Assessment in Pulp Paper Industrial Properties under Extreme Weather Conditions: A Case Study in North-Western Portugal". 2022.
    10.3390/environsciproc2022017126
  3. Beatriz Lourenço; Bruno Aparício; Chiara Bruni; Akli Benali; Ana Sá. "Assessing Economical Losses in Pulp Industry Properties Due to Large Wildfires in Central Portugal". 2022.
    10.3390/environsciproc2022017099
  4. Ana C. L. Sá; Bruno Aparicio; Chiara Bruni; Akli Benali; Michele Salis; Fábio Silva; Alfredo Rocha; et al. "Wildfire Hazard and Landscape Connectivity Assessment in the Serra da Cabreira Mountain, Portugal". 2022.
    10.3390/environsciproc2022017054
  5. Bruno A. Aparício; Akli Benali; Ana C. L. Sá. "A New Tool to Assist the Calibration of Fire Growth Models". 2022.
    10.3390/environsciproc2022017002
Conference poster
  1. Sá, Ana C. L.; Benali, Akli; Tiago Luna; Schroeder, Wilfrid; Alfredo Rocha; Paulo Fernandes; José Miguel Cardoso Pereira. "How can satellite data improve our knowledge on large wildfires?". Paper presented in Conference on Fire Prediction Across Scales, 2017.
  2. Sá, Ana C. L.; Benali, Akli. "Deciphering the impact of uncertainty in the accuracy fire spread simulations". Paper presented in II International Conference on Fire Behaviour and Risk, 2015.
  3. Sá, Ana C. L.; Benali, Akli; Renata Pinto. "Probabilistic fire spread modeling in support of fire-suppression decisions". Paper presented in II International Conference on Fire Behaviour and Risk, 2015.
Journal article
  1. Chiara Bruni; Bruno Aparício; Beatriz Lourenço; Martinho Marta-Almeida; Akli Benali; Susana Barreiro; Alfredo Rocha; Ana C.L. Sá. "Wildfire exposure and risk in pulp paper companies’ plantations under extreme weather conditions: A case study in North-Western Portugal". International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (2024): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.104064.
    10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.104064
  2. Benali, Akli; Aparício, Bruno A.; Gonçalves, Ana; Oliveira, Sandra. "Defining priorities for wildfire mitigation actions at the local scale: insights from a novel risk analysis method applied in Portugal". Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 6 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2023.1270210.
    10.3389/ffgc.2023.1270210
  3. Benali, Akli; Guiomar, Nuno; Gonçalves, Hugo; Mota, Bernardo; Silva, Fábio; Fernandes, Paulo M.; Mota, Carlos; et al. "The Portuguese Large Wildfire Spread database (PT-FireSprd)". Earth System Science Data 15 8 (2023): 3791-3818. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-3791-2023.
    10.5194/essd-15-3791-2023
  4. Aparício, Bruno A.; Benali, Akli; Pereira, José M. C.; Sá, Ana C. L.. "MTTfireCAL Package for R—An Innovative, Comprehensive, and Fast Procedure to Calibrate the MTT Fire Spread Modelling System". Fire 6 6 (2023): 219. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fire6060219.
    10.3390/fire6060219
  5. D.C.S. Vieira; P. Borrelli; D. Jahanianfard; A. Benali; S. Scarpa; P. Panagos. "Wildfires in Europe: Burned soils require attention". Environmental Research 217 (2023): 114936-114936. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2022.114936.
    10.1016/j.envres.2022.114936
  6. Sá, A.C.L.; Benali, A.; Aparicio, B.A.; Bruni, C.; Mota, C.; Pereira, J.M.C.; Fernandes, P.M.. "A method to produce a flexible and customized fuel models dataset". MethodsX 10 (2023): 102218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2023.102218.
    10.1016/j.mex.2023.102218
  7. Tomás Calheiros; Akli Benali; Mário Gonzalez Pereira; João M. N. Silva; J.P. Nunes. "Drivers of extreme burnt area in Portugal: fire weather and vegetation". Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 22 12 (2022): 4019-4037. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-4019-2022.
    10.5194/nhess-22-4019-2022
  8. Ana C. L. Sá; Bruno A. Aparício; Akli Benali; Chiara Bruni; Michele SALIS; Fábio Silva; Martinho Marta-Almeida; et al. "Coupling wildfire spread simulations and connectivity analysis for hazard assessment: a case study in Serra da Cabreira, Portugal". Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 22 12 (2022): 3917-3938. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-3917-2022.
    10.5194/nhess-22-3917-2022
  9. Dante Follmi; Jantiene Baartman; Akli Benali; J.P. Nunes. "How do large wildfires impact sediment redistribution over multiple decades?". Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 47 13 (2022): 3033-3050. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/esp.5441.
    10.1002/esp.5441
  10. José M. C. Pereira; Duarte Oom; Pedro C. Silva; Akli Benali. "Wild, tamed, and domesticated: Three fire macroregimes for global pyrogeography in the Anthropocene". Ecological Applications (2022): https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2588.
    10.1002/eap.2588
  11. Susana Barreiro; Akli Benali; João C. P. Rua; Margarida Tomé; José L. Santos; José M. C. Pereira. "Combining Landscape Fire Simulations with Stand-Level Growth Simulations to Assist Landowners in Building Wildfire-Resilient Landscapes". Forests (2021): https://doi.org/10.3390/f12111498.
    10.3390/f12111498
  12. Akli Benali; Ana C. L. Sá; João Pinho; Paulo M. Fernandes; José M. C. Pereira. "Understanding the Impact of Different Landscape-Level Fuel Management Strategies on Wildfire Hazard in Central Portugal". Forests (2021): https://doi.org/10.3390/f12050522.
    10.3390/f12050522
  13. Gonçalves, Ana; Oliveira, Sandra; Sá, Ana; Benali, Akli; Zêzere, José Luís; Pereira, José Miguel. "Avaliação da exposição das comunidades locais a incêncidos florestais: O caso de Alvares, Góis". (2021): https://revistas.rcaap.pt/finisterra/article/view/19277.
    10.18055/Finis19277
  14. Sandra Oliveira; Ana Gonçalves; Akli Benali; Ana Sá; José Luís Zêzere; José Miguel Pereira. "Assessing Risk and Prioritizing Safety Interventions in Human Settlements Affected by Large Wildfires". Forests 11 8 (2020): 859-859. https://doi.org/10.3390/f11080859.
    10.3390/f11080859
  15. Ameijeiras-Alonso, Jose; Benali, Akli; Crujeiras, Rosa M.; Rodríguez-Casal, Alberto; Pereira, José M. C.. "Fire seasonality identification with multimodality tests". The Annals of Applied Statistics 13 4 (2019): 2120-2139. http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/19-aoas1273.
    10.1214/19-aoas1273
  16. Benali, Akli; Barreiro, Susana; Sa, Ana; Rua, Joao; Le Page, Yannick; Pinho, Joao; Fernandes, Paulo; et al. "Towards more resilient and productive forest landscapes: tradeoffs in a recently burned area in Portugal". Advances in Forest Fire Research (2018): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/40686247/.
    10.14195/978-989-26-16-506_167
  17. Benali, Akli; Sá, Ana C.L.; Ervilha, Ana R.; Trigo, Ricardo M.; Fernandes, Paulo M.; Pereira, José M.C.. "Fire spread predictions: Sweeping uncertainty under the rug". Science of The Total Environment 592 (2017): 187-196. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.03.106.
    10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.03.106
  18. Benali, Akli; Mota, Bernardo; Carvalhais, Nuno; Oom, Duarte; Miller, Lee M.; Campagnolo, Manuel L.; Pereira, José M. C.. "Bimodal fire regimes unveil a global-scale anthropogenic fingerprint". Global Ecology and Biogeography 26 7 (2017): 799-811. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.12586.
    10.1111/geb.12586
  19. Sá, Ana C.L.; Benali, Akli; Fernandes, Paulo M.; Pinto, Renata M.S.; Trigo, Ricardo M.; Salis, Michele; Russo, Ana; et al. "Evaluating fire growth simulations using satellite active fire data". Remote Sensing of Environment 190 (2017): 302-317. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2016.12.023.
    Published • 10.1016/j.rse.2016.12.023
  20. Benali, Akli; Ervilha, Ana R.; Sá, Ana C.L.; Fernandes, Paulo M.; Pinto, Renata M.S.; Trigo, Ricardo M.; Pereira, José M.C.. "Deciphering the impact of uncertainty on the accuracy of large wildfire spread simulations". Science of The Total Environment 569-570 (2016): 73-85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.06.112.
    10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.06.112
  21. Pinto, Renata M.S.; Benali, Akli; Sá, Ana C. L.; Fernandes, Paulo M.; Soares, Pedro M. M.; Cardoso, Rita M.; Trigo, Ricardo M.; Pereira, José M. C.. "Probabilistic fire spread forecast as a management tool in an operational setting". SpringerPlus 5 1 (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40064-016-2842-9.
    Open access • Published • 10.1186/s40064-016-2842-9
  22. Benali, Akli; Russo, Ana; Sá, Ana; Pinto, Renata; Price, Owen; Koutsias, Nikos; Pereira, José. "Determining Fire Dates and Locating Ignition Points With Satellite Data". Remote Sensing 8 4 (2016): 326. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs8040326.
    Published • 10.3390/rs8040326
  23. Bedia, Joaquín; Herrera, Sixto; Gutiérrez, Jose Manuel; Benali, Akli; Brands, Swen; Mota, Bernardo; Moreno, Jose Manuel. "Global patterns in the sensitivity of burned area to fire-weather: Implications for climate change". Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 214-215 (2015): 369-379. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.09.002.
    10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.09.002
  24. Nunes, João Pedro; Malvar, Maruxa; Benali, Akli; Rial Rivas, María Ermitas; Keizer, Jan Jacob. "A simple water balance model adapted for soil water repellency: application on Portuguese burned and unburned eucalypt stands". Hydrological Processes 30 3 (2015): 463-478. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.10629.
    10.1002/hyp.10629
  25. Benali, A.; Nunes, J.P.; Freitas, F.B.; Sousa, C.A.; Novo, M.T.; Lourenço, P.M.; Lima, J.C.; Seixas, J.; Almeida, A.P.G.. "Satellite-derived estimation of environmental suitability for malaria vector development in Portugal". Remote Sensing of Environment 145 (2014): 116-130. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2014.01.014.
    10.1016/j.rse.2014.01.014
  26. Benali, A.; Carvalho, A.C.; Nunes, J.P.; Carvalhais, N.; Santos, A.. "Estimating air surface temperature in Portugal using MODIS LST data". Remote Sensing of Environment 124 (2012): 108-121.
    10.1016/j.rse.2012.04.024
  27. Carvalhais, N.; Reichstein, M.; Collatz, G. J.; Mahecha, M. D.; Migliavacca, M.; Neigh, C. S. R.; Tomelleri, E.; et al. "Deciphering the components of regional net ecosystem fluxes following a bottom-up approach for the Iberian Peninsula". Biogeosciences 7 (2010): 3707-3729.
    10.5194/bg-7-3707-2010
  28. Seixas, J.; Carvalhais, N.; Nunes, C.; Benali, A.. "Comparative analysis of MODIS-FAPAR and MERIS–MGVI datasets: Potential impacts on ecosystem modeling". Remote Sensing of Environment 113 (2009): 2547-2559.
    10.1016/j.rse.2009.07.018
Report
  1. Benali, Akli; Pereira, JMC; Benali, A; Sá, ACL; Le Page, Y; Barreiro, S; Rua, J; et al. 2019. Alvares - a case of resilience to fire (technical report). https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9ed9f5_741c3d6fa290410cb550c5f98e6f834a.pdf.
  2. Benali, Akli; Pereira, José Miguel; Sá, Ana C. L.; Oliveira, Sandra; Santos, José Lima; Canadas, Maria João; Novais, Ana; LePage, Yannick; Pinho, João. 2019. ALVARES: um caso de resiliência ao fogo [ALVARES: a case of resilience to fire]. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/6071941.
    10.2172/6071941
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/09/27 Science applied to wildfires EVENTO FINAL AI-4-MUFF
ANEPC (carnaxide, Portugal)
2023/05/16 Innovation in fire analysis methodologies and operational decision support - A co-creation process 8th international wildland fire conference
AGIF (Porto, Portugal)
2023/03/07 Fire spread prediction in Portugal The 2023 COPERNICUS Emergency Management Service On-Demand Mapping
Joint Research Center
2022/12/15 Co-creation of knowledge to mitigate large wildfires in Portugal: where science meets practice VII Jornadas Tecnicas de Prevención de Incendios Forestales
Pau Costa Foundation (Toledo, Spain)
2022/11/17 Estimating shrub live fuel moisture content for mainland Portugal IX International Conference on Forest Fire Research
ADAI
2022/05/03 The PT large wildfire spread database: development and lessons learned 3rd International Conference on Fire Behavior and Risk em Alghero
(Alghero, Italy)
2022/05/02 A near-real time operational stochastic fire spread simulator 3rd International Conference on Fire Behavior and Risk em Alghero
(Alghero, Italy)
2018/11/29 Alvares: um caso de resiliência ao fogo Impacts and Benefits of a Responsible Forest Management (Impactos e Beneficios de uma Gestão Florestal Responsável)
Forest Stewardship Council (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/11/09 Towards more resilient and productive forest landscapes: tradeoffs in a recently burned area in Portugal VIII International Conference on Forest Fire Research
Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2018/07/03 Alvares: uma história de resiliência ao fogo National Science Meeting 2018 (Encontro Ciência 2018)
FCT (Lisboa, Portugal)
2015/05/25 Evaluating fire growth simulations using satellite active fire data ICFBR - International Conference on Fire Behaviour and Risk
University of Sassari and National Research Council of Italy
2014/11/09 Improving wildfire spread simulations using MODIS active fires: the FIRE-MODSAT project VII International Conference on Forest Fire Research
Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2014/04/01 The potential of satellite data to study individual wildfire events European Geophysical Union Conference
European Geophysical Union (Vienna, Austria)
2013/04/01 Global patterns of vegetation fire seasonality European Geophysical Union General Assembly
European Geophysical Union (Vienna, Austria)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023/07/18 - Current Rede primária de faixas de gestão de combustível: análise espacial à eficácia na contenção de incêndios rurais em Portugal
Supervisor of João Hermenegildo Oliveira
2021/10/25 - Current Towards a better understanding of post-fire impacts in the last decades in Portugal
Supervisor of Dina Jahanianfard
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2021/10/08 - Current Monitorização de incêndios
Co-supervisor of Carlos VAldas Mota

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2016/05/05 - 2020/02/08 Coffee with Science : organization of a monthly event that aims at disseminating the scientific work produced within the research center to its members in an informal and friendly environment. (2016/05/04 - 2020/02/08)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Florestais, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2023/12/22 Sistema de Apoio à Decisão para as Áreas Integradas de Gestão da Paisagem
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Márcia Batalha Matias (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2023/10/20 A set of tools to help operations design and management of a forest fire helicopter fleet
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Renata Jácome Coelho (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2023/05/01 - Current european Network on Extreme fiRe behaviOr (NERO) Vice-Chair

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2019/07/01 - 2023/09/01 Operational wildfire analysis and fire spread simulation. Activities performed in the National Decision Support Unit for Wildfire Analysis of the National Authority for Emergency and Civil Protection (Portugal)

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2015/11/01 - 2016/01/10 Remote Sensing - practical component Engenharia Florestal e dos Recursos Naturais (Mestrado integrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2009/11/01 - 2010/01/31 Environmental Systems Monitoring course : practical component of the Remote Sensing module. Engenharia do Ambiente (Mestrado integrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2008/04/01 - 2008/06/30 Management of Aquatic Systems - pratical component. Engenharia do Ambiente (Mestrado integrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2019 Forest and Sustainability Prize: Inovation (category)