António A. L. Sampaio Duarte is a civil engineer, which has obtained his Graduation (5 years) in 1984, at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP). He completed his PhD in Civil Engineering (Hydraulics and Environment) in 2006/07/21 at the University of Minho, in Braga, Portugal. He is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Minho (DEC-UM) and a Researcher at CTAC - Centro of Territory, Environment and Construction (integrated member) and at IB-S - Institute of Science and Innovation for Bio-Sustainability (collaborating member). In the period 2017-2002, he was Director of the Master Course in Sustainable Management of the Urban Water Cycle (GESCUA) and member of the Coordinating Committee of DEC-UM. In the period 2011-2015 he was a member of the Steering Committee of the Integrated Master's Course in Civil Engineering (MIEC) at the University of Minho and of the Master's Course in Urban Engineering (2009-2011). He was scientific supervisor of twenty-five master's dissertations completed at the University of Minho and the University of Coimbra. He supervises two PhD students at the University of Minho and at the University of Vigo (Spain). He was a member of the Organizing and / or Scientific Committees of more than twenty scientific events. Since 1996, he has published more than a hundred technical-scientific works, thirty-three of which in specialized international journals, two books, nine book chapters, and several communications/papers in international and national conferences. He received two awards for the best scientific article. He is member of the Editorial Board of some national and international journals linked to the water sector. He develops his research activity in the fields of Environmental Hydraulics and Public Health Engineering, with expertise area in advanced water treatment (supply and urban wastewater), risk assessment for human health, eutrophication, and hydraulic networks vulnerability assessment.