Luís Filipe Sanches Fernandes is a Full Professor at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (scientific and disciplinary area of Civil Engineering). He has an Aggregate Degree in Civil Engineering obtained in 2013/03/12 from the University of Évora. He has a PhD in Civil Engineering since 2002 from the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, a Master's degree in Municipal Engineering and Planning - Basic Sanitation since 1998/01/21 from the University of Minho and a degree in Civil Engineering since 1993/07/19 from the same University. He is an integrated member of the Centre for Research and Agro-environmental and Biological Technologies (CITAB). He has published around one and a half hundred articles indexed in Scopus and has an H index of 36 on the same platform. He also has a number of conference papers, book chapters and other documents in Scopus. He has been a coordinating researcher and participant in a series of national and international scientific projects, managing a considerable volume of funds allocated to various items in these projects. He has organised a series of national and international scientific events. He supervised 6 completed doctorates, two of them international, and 39 master's dissertations, one of them international. He has supervised more than two dozen research fellows (undergraduates, masters and doctors). Works in the area(s) of Engineering and Technology with emphasis on Civil Engineering, Natural sciences with emphasis on Earth and Environmental Sciences and Engineering and Technology with emphasis on Environmental Engineering.