Luísa Schmidt is a sociologist and Research Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ICS-ULisboa). She is part of the team that introduced Environmental Sociology in Portugal, in research, teaching and in the articulation between academia and society. She was also among the researchers who created and set up the OBSERVA - Observatory of Environment, Territory and Society (1996), which she currently coordinates, and where she develops multiple research projects that articulate social sciences and environmental issues. At Observa she participated in the first surveys on environmental values and practices, as well as coordinated longitudinal media analysis on environment and nature. At the ICS-ULisboa, Luísa is a member of the Research Group 'Environment, Territory and Society' (SHIFT) and of the Scientific Committee of the Doctoral Program on Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies, which started in 2009 and results from a partnership between two universities in Lisbon (Universidade de Lisboa and Universidade Nova de Lisboa) and the University of East Anglia (UK). Luísa's current research projects include: B-Water Smart: Accelerating Water Smartness in Coastal Europe (2020-2024, EU Horizon 2020); Local.SDG Platform (2020-2030); Sustainability Barometer (2016-2026); Energy4All (EPAH, EU, 2023-24); "COMPON - Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks" (2015-2025, University of Minnesota). She is author of 20 books and editor of 8 books, 70 book chapters and 53 peer-reviewed articles. Her publications have focused on topics such as climate policy and social approaches to climate change; values, practices and social representations of the environment; education for sustainable development; social problems around Energy & energy poverty; media analysis of environmental issues; public participation in adaptation to climate change. Her last book provides an assessment of public environmental policies: ¿50 Anos de Políticas Ambientais em Portugal: da Conferência de Estocolmo à Atualidade¿ (¿50 Years of Environmental Policies in Portugal: from the Stokolm Conference to the present¿) L Schmidt, org, 2023. Another recent book focuses on the results of the second Portuguese survey on sustainability - ¿Sustentabilidade e Alimentação ¿ Segundo Grande Inquérito em Portugal¿ (Sustainability and Food ¿ Second Survey on Sustainability in Portugal, 2022, with M. Truninger, L. Junqueira and P. Prista). Also stands out an edited book published in Brazil, ¿Clima de Tensão: Ação Humana, Biodiversidade e Mudanças Climáticas¿ [Climate of Tension: Human Action, Biodiversity and Climate Change] (2017), with L. C. Ferreira, M. P. Buendía, J. Calvimontes and J. E. Viglio. Luísa Schmidt is a member of CNADS (National Council of the Environment and Sustainable Development) and of the Working Group for Sustainable Development within the framework of the European Environment and Sustainable Development Advisory Council. Also a member of the General Council of APREN (Portuguese Renewable Energy Association). She is a founder of the Energy & Society International Network and a member of the Portuguese-Speaking Network for Environmental Education. She was a member of the Research Committee on Environment and Society (RC24) of the International Sociological Association (2013-2018), and is part of the Advisory Board of the Research Network for Environment and Society (RN12) of the European Sociological Association since 2019. She has been appointed Ambassador for Goal 14 (Marine Resources) of the SDGs, within the UN Global Compact Network Portugal. Regular columnist for newspaper Expresso on environmental issues. In 2016 Luísa Schmidt received the Ciência Viva Media Award from the National Agency for Scientific and Technological Culture (Ministry of Science). In 2022 she won the ¿Personality¿ award from Visão Verde and also the award for the best article in the Análise Social magazine with A. Delicado and L. Junqueira.