Professor Filipe Duarte Santos

Professor Filipe Duarte Santos (Portugal) holds a BSc in Geophysics from the University of Lisbon and a PhD in Theoretical Nuclear Physics from the University of London. He is professor of Physics and Environmental Sciences at the University of Lisbon and has been visiting researcher and professor at several Universities in Europe and the USA, including Surrey, Munich, Vrije-Amsterdam, Wisconsin-Madison, North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Duke, Stanford and Harvard. He was Director (2007-2011) of the Ibero-American Program CYTED (Science and Technology for Development) for the area of Sustainable Development, Ecosystems and Global Change. He was twice Vice-President of the UN Commission on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. He was review editor of the IPCC 5th Assessment Report and member of the Portuguese delegation to the UN climate COPs from 1999 to 2019. He is presently Director of the PhD program on Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies, which involves the University of Lisbon and the Nova University of Lisbon, Chairman of the Portuguese National Council on the Environment and Sustainable Development. He is a member of the University of Lisbon Research Institute CE3C - CHANGE—Global Change and Sustainability Institute.

His current field of research is sustainability, global change and climate change, with special emphasis on mitigation, adaptation and geoengineering. He has published more than 150 papers in SCI-indexed scientific journals in physics, climate change and sustainability and various books. His most recent book is: Santos, F. D. (2021), Time, Progress, Growth and Technology. How Humans and the Earth are Responding, Springer, The Frontiers Collection, 703 p. His most recent research subject are the human sustainability determinants that may act as human sustainability boundaries, recently reported in two 2024 articles: doi.org/10.1007/s11625-024-01462-0 and doi.org/10.3390/su16010331.

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