I obtained a Ph.D. degree in Statistics and Operations Research from the Faculdade de Ciências da http://www.cienciavitae.pt//en/4D14-9ADB-3D08Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL) in 2003 and I have been an Assistant Professor with a Tenure appointment since 2008. I obtained a M.Sc. degree in Probability and Statistics from the FCUL in 1994 and a graduation in Applied Mathematics from the University Lusíada of Lisbon (ULL) in 1990. I started my academic career in 1990 at the ULL and by now, I have lectured 28 curricular units. I also lectured several short courses in the framework of M.Sc. and Ph.D. programs, and several short courses specifically intended for the medical community. My Ph.D. studies focuses on Extreme Value Theory (EVT) and Bayesian statistics. In terms of international activity, I collaborated with Professor Samuel Kotz, from the George Washington University, Washington DC (USA) and we published 2 review papers, in 2010, that focus on one of the key distributions in EVT: the generalized Pareto distribution. These 2 papers have been cited in journals of many areas and were, for several years, in the "Top 25 Hottest Articles" of the Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. I am co-author of the 2014 Springer book entitled "Non-Linear Time Series: Extreme Events and Integer Value Problems" and of two book chapters (one international and one national). I co-author 3 papers with members of the Department of Statistics of the University Carlos III, Madrid (Spain). One of the papers is also co-authored by Professor Håvard Rue from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Saudi Arabia), one of the creators of the Bayesian software INLA. I mainly published in peer-reviewed international journals of the Probability and Statistics area but also in environment, wildfires and econometric journals. Presently my research interests still focus on EVT, copulas and space-time models in the context of environmental problems and wildfire modeling. In this framework, I was the Principal Investigator (PI) of a project entitled "Compound extremes in Mediterranean temperature, wind, and wildfires", which started in January 2023 and ended in December 2024 and was financed by FCUL funds for the Development of I&D projects. I was also the Co-PI of a project funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), entitled "Data Fusion and Calibration Methods for Spatial Risk Analysis", that ended in October 2021. I supervised several M.Sc. dissertations in various areas such as EVT, missing values, modeling association between two variables using copulas, spatial analysis of areal data from a Bayesian point of view, zero-inflated models, hurdle models and mediation and was the sole supervisor of a PhD thesis.