Filipe Duarte Santos
Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, CHANGE—Global Change and Sustainability Institute, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Earth and Environmental Sciences | L24
Filipe Duarte Santos holds a M.Sc. in Geophysics by the University of Lisbon and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics by the University of London. Full professor of Physics and Environmental Sciences at the University of Lisbon and Director of the PhD program on Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies – University of Lisbon, New University of Lisbon and University of East Anglia. Visiting professor since 1980 at several universities in the United States, including the University of Wisconsin, Duke University, the University of North Carolina, Stanford University, Harvard University, and at European Universities. Member of the Environment Steering Panel of EASAC (European Academies Science Advisory Council). Review Editor for the 5th Assessment Report of the IPCC WG II. President of the Portuguese Council on the Environment and Sustainable Development since 2017. His present area of research is climate change and sustainability. 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: Time, Progress, Growth and Technology. How Humans and the Earth are Responding, 2021, Springer.