Manuel António Salgueiro da Silva is an assistant professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto (DFA-FCUP). He holds a PhD in Condensed Matter Physics, and a Bachelor in Physics, from UP. He is a researcher at the Centre for Earth and Space Research of the University of Coimbra (CITEUC), serving as a member of the scientific council. His current research focuses on the numerical modeling of reflectance spectroscopy of asteroids and on the development of a consistent methodology for determining asteroids’ mineralogy from their reflectance spectra. He is also actively engaged in Physics and Environmental Physics Education (PE), emphasizing automatic online assessment, and the development of practical activities with low-cost data acquisition equipment. He has been involved, as PI, local Co-PI, and researcher, in various international and national projects in Physics, Planetary Geosciences, and PE, funded by the EU and the Portuguese FCT. He has organized and participated in scientific and outreach events and co-published two eBooks and several book chapters in PE and Asteroids. He has also published tens of articles in journals in Physics, Geophysics, Numerical Mathematics, Planetary Sciences, and PE areas, and presents at international and national conferences, invited talks, posters, and oral communications. Currently supervising two PhD theses and one PhD project in Science Education, he has supervised master theses, projects, and seminars in various programs at FCUP. He was co-responsible for creating and supervising Extra-Curricular Internship Programs – PEEC and for Research Initiation Scholarships. He co-created the BaseGaia webpage in 2023 as part of the GeoPlaNet Strategic Partnership project, where he served as local Co-PI. As a member of the GeoPlaNet SP, he and his colleagues received a Good Practice award in 2023—an exemplarity label from the EU recognizing the high quality of GeoPlaNet SP results and implementation. From 2016 to 2023, he was a member of the Collaboratory for Geosciences (C4G), where he coordinated the Rock Physics and Geomechanics Laboratories. He was a co-founder of the 1st Master’s Degree in Geophysics at UP in 2003, where he created courses, co-lectured, and supervised master students. He was also a co-founder of the Institute of Materials Physics at UP (IFIMUP), serving as director of the X-ray diffraction laboratory from 2001 until 2005. At IFIMUP, he developed innovative and fully automatic experimental measurement systems. At FCUP, he has lectured tens of courses at undergraduate and graduate levels, spanning various programs. His teaching extends from bachelor’s to master’s and doctoral programs in General Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Electronics, Instrumentation, Physics Education, Physics Engineering, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Environmental Physics. He also co-lectured Climatology and Climate Change at FEUP, and has contributed to A3C - Ageing, Climate Change and Citizenship (1st, 2nd and 3rd eds., EUGLOH), from 2019 to 2022, and has also co-lectured Reflectance Spectroscopy of Asteroids and Computational Methods Applied to Geophysics at the University of Coimbra for the Erasmus Mundus GeoPlaNet Master Degree in 2023. He participates in science outreach programs at UP, such as Open Day, UP-Exhibition, and Week of Science and Technology, giving talks and exhibitions. He is involved in Junior University, organizing a Summer Workshop for Collection and Identification of Micrometeorites since 2017. He also participated in the Summer School of Physics, leading the Study of the Electrical Properties of a Semiconductor (2017-19). As co-coordinator of Asteroid Day Portugal since 2016, he organized the event in collaboration with Angola in 2020-21.