Biography

Tiago Capela Lourenço is an Environmental Engineer (University of Algarve 2004) and holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences (University of Lisbon 2015). His main research areas of interest are climate adaptation decision-making, uncertainties and climate adaptation services. He has extensive experience with national and international research and policy-oriented projects in these areas. He is as a researcher at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon since 2005. He coordinated the CIRCLE-2 ERA-Net (FP7 2010-2014) and was responsible for the Portuguese participation in the CIRCLE CA (FP6 2005-2009). He has been involved in multiple European projects including: BASE (FP7 2012-2015), IMPRESSIONS (FP7 2013-2018), PLACARD (H2020 2015-2020) and ERA4CS (H2020 2016-20121). He has been involved in the JPI-CLIMATE since its inception phases and contributed to other JPIs including Water, Urban and FACCE. He is a member of the European Topic Centre on Climate Change Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation (ETC-CCA) of the European Environment Agency (EEA). He has been working closely with the Portuguese Environment Agency (APA) in the development and implementation of Portugal’s National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy (ENAAC). He has also been involved in multiple regional and local-level climate adaptation strategies including, among others, those in the ClimAdaPT.Local project (EEA Grants) and in the islands of the Autonomous Regions of Madeira and Açores. He has several peer-reviewed publications and an edited book on Climate Adaptation and Uncertainties. He is a reviewer for the European Commission and a member of the Portuguese Order of Engineers.