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Pedro M. A. Miranda is a retired Full Professor at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. He graduated in Physics from the same school and completed his PhD in Meteorology at the University of Reading, UK. He was the director of the IDL for 8 years and coordinated the EARTHSYSTEMS doctoral program. He has been a member of the PE10 panel of the Advanced Grants of the European Research Council on four occasions. He supervised 17 doctoral students. His research has addressed topics in dynamic meteorology, namely the characteristics of internal waves excited by obstacles, processes in the atmospheric boundary layer, atmosphere-ocean interaction and coastal upwelling, generation and propagation of tsunamis, and global and regional climate change. This research has almost always been associated with the development of numerical and/or analytical models, and is reflected in scientific articles available from databases such as ORCIDecent years, his activity has been divided between the study of regional climate processes, namely the circulation regimes in the Ibero-Atlantic region, and the development of innovative methods for observing atmospheric water vapor based on the refraction of microwave signals used for geodetic purposes (GNSS positioning and RADAR Interferometry for surface deformation assessment), translated into the original development of tomographic models and the assimilation of these data into atmospheric models.