Miguel Miranda

Permanent Member

Class
Sciences

Section
4th Section | Earth and Space Sciences

Election

15.05.2014 (Corresponding Member)
26.05.2022 (Permanent Member)

Contact

miguel.miranda [at] aircentre.org

Areas of Interest

Geophysics of Potential Fields; Geodynamics; Tsunamis

Hyperlinks
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1321-8709

Profile

Jorge Miguel Alberto de Miranda, Jubilate Full Professor of Geophysics at the University of Lisbon. He studied at the Faculty of Sciences of Lisbon and graduated in Physics in 1981. He obtained his Ph.D. in Geophysics in 1990 and his Habilitation in 2002. He is the author of more than one hundred indexed scientific papers in the fields of Potential Field Geophysics, Marine Geophysics and Tsunamis, with papers published in leading scientific journals such as the Journal of Geophysical Research, Geophysical Research Letters and Nature, with significant impact in his area of research. He has organized and participated in a significant number of international scientific meetings. He has worked extensively in the management of scientific organizations, being President of the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere from 2012 to 2023, President of the Council of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in 2017 and 2018, member of the Executive Committee of Region VI of the World Meteorological Organization from 2013 to 2017. He was Director of the Dom Luiz Institute (Associate Laboratory) from 2004 to 2011 and Executive Director of the Institute of Applied Science and Technology, a business incubator associated with the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, from 2004 to 2009 and its President from 2009 to 2011. Executive Director of the Foundation of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon between 2004 and 2009. President of the Pedagogical Council of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon between 2001 and 2003. Member of the Statutory Assembly of the University of Lisbon between 2008 and 2009 and member of the General Council of the University of Lisbon from 2011-2012. He has participated in the coordination of the European Network of Excellence ESONET and the European Scientific Infrastructures Project EMSO and is the President of the Assembly of Members of EMSO-ERIC for the period 2021-2025. He has participated in evaluation panels of the European Research Council, ANR, Framework Program and FCT, among others. He has coordinated more than a dozen national and international research projects in geophysics.