Maria do Sameiro Patrício is a Coordinating Professor at the School of Agriculture of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança and a researcher at the Mountain Research Center (CIMO) and the Associated Laboratory SusTEC. She holds a PhD in Forestry Engineering and an MSc in Plant Production from the Instituto Superior de Agronomia (University of Lisbon), and a BSc in Forest Engineering from UTAD. Her work focuses on silviculture and sustainable forest management, particularly of European chestnut and other broadleaved species such as cork oak, integrating biomass, growth and yield modelling, and carbon dynamics. She also has a research interest in natural regeneration–based forest management and continuous cover forestry approaches for the sustainable management of forest ecosystems. She has authored more than 30 scientific articles and participated in over two dozen national and international research projects, acting as institutional principal investigator in several of them. She has held roles in academic and scientific management, including Head of Department and membership of scientific committees, and has extensive experience in teaching and supervising, including master’s and dissertations. Internationally, she is Deputy of the IUFRO Working Party 1.01.13 “Ecology and Silviculture of Castanea” and takes part in collaborative European networks, including the Seeding vs. Planting experiment on oak regeneration, contributing to advances in forestry, namely in oak ecology, chestnut silviculture, and multifunctional forest ecosystem management.