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José Miguel Cardoso Pereira is a Full Professor in the Department of Natural Resources, Environment, and Territory at the Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA), University of Lisbon. He holds a degree in Forestry from ISA and a Ph.D. from the School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Arizona, and is a member of the Forest Research Center (CEF) at ISA.
He is a full member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences in the Earth and Space Sciences section, and a collaborator of the Center for Statistics and Applications of the University of Lisbon and of the Laboratory for Environmental Satellite Applications at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He is in the Advisory Board of the International Savanna Fire Management Initiative and in the Scientific Council of the Portuguese Council for Health and Environment.
He has been a visiting scientist at the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), the Monitoring Tropical Vegetation Unit, Space Applications Institute, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, and the Department of Soil and Water Science at the University of Arizona.
He is the author or co-author of 161 articles published in peer-reviewed international journals, eight of which are classified as Highly Cited by Web of Science, and has an h-index of 49. He is listed by Stanford University among the top 2% most cited researchers globally and was in the Research.com top 10 best environmental scientists in Portugal (2020-2022). He has supervised 20 PhD theses and co-supervised another five.
His research focuses on pyrogeography, including remote fire sensing, from local to global scales, with a special emphasis on Portugal and the tropical savannas of Africa, Australia, and Brazil.