António José Guerner Dias was born in 1964 in the municipality of Vila Nova de Gaia. He graduated in Geology in 1987, having completed his PhD in 2005, in the scientific area of Geology, with the work: “Reassessment of the oil potential of the Lusitanian Basin“. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Geosciences, Environment and Spatial Planning, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, and has been director of the same department since June 2014 to July 2018. Currently, he dedicates himself to works resulting from the relationship centered on the Human, Geology and Environment triangle, with particular emphasis on the development of mitigation and adaptation measures to climate change. He was scientific coordinator of the 1st MOOC of the UP: “Climate changes in school media”, held in 2015 and which registered more than a thousand enrolments. He guides and supervised more than eighty master's theses and five doctoral theses, on environmental and geological themes. He has published more than seventy articles in journals indexed in environmental and geological themes, with particular emphasis on solid environmental impact assessment and natural resource management. Collaborates with several foreign universities, particularly in portuguese-speaking countries, with emphasis on Pedagogical University of Maputo, Mozambique, University Nove de Julho, São Paulo – Brazil and the School of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Cape Verde. In her Science Vitae curriculum, the most frequent terms in the context of scientific and technological production are: climate change; environmental attitudes; environmental behavior; green consumption; sustainability; fossil fuels; solid waste management; sustainable buildings; civil construction waste; water resources management; sustainability indicators; geological heritage; mining heritage; geoconservation; subterranean water; soil contamination; preservation of water resources; natural resource management; environmental impact assessment.