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Mário Gonzalez Pereira

WG1 co-leader
UTAD
Portugal
Mário Gonzalez Pereira is a PhD in Physics from the University of Lisbon, Assistant Professor at UTAD and Senior researcher in CITAB - Centre for the Research and Technology of Agro-Environmental and Biological Sciences. Researcher, supervisor and manager in several research projects in these areas and has also been editor of Climate (ISSN 2225-1154) and special issues in several journals. Mário is an applied geoscientist focused on meteorology and climatology, with a main interest in weather, climate, climate variability, extreme events, climate change and their impacts on human and natural systems, especially on agroforestry systems, namely forest fires and water resources. He has extensive experience in the preparation and evaluation of large databases, and in the development, evaluation and use of different methods (physical, statistical, machine learning) to analyze environmental data, model processes/relationships, and map and assess risks.