Assistant Professor, in Full Time Regime, at the Lusófona University of Humanities and Technologies, ECEO – Department of Aeronautics and Transport, since 2009. PhD in Management (U.Évora) – Aeronautical Management Research Line, Master in Business Management U.Évora, 2010), Executive MBA in Air Transport / Civil Aviation Management (ULHT / INAC / Cranfield University, 2008). Graduated in Management (U. Nova de Lisboa, 2005). Consultant in Transport and Professional Experience in the Transport and Logistics Sector since 2005. Researcher at DREAMS – ECEO, ULHT and CEFACE – U.Évora.

Fernanda Oliveira Resende received the Electrical Engineering degree in 1996 from the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 2000 and 2008, respectively, from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.

She concluded the Post-Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Power Systems) in April of 2013, within the framework of the Post-Doctoral Grant SFRH/BPD/64022/2009, being the INESC TEC the host institution. Her research interests include smart microgrids, integration of renewable energy sources, artificial intelligence and power system dynamics and control.

She is an Associate Professor at University Lusófona of Porto, Porto, Portugal, since 2009, Adjunct Professor at the Superior School of Technology and Management of Águeda, Aveiro University, Águeda, Portugal, since 2016 and a Senior Researcher of the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering of Porto (INESC Porto) since 2004. Also, she is a Director of course of Electrical Engineering of Power Systems at University Lusófona of Porto, since 2012. She joined the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (Superior School of Technology and Management), Bragança, Portugal, between 1998 and 2009.

Elsa Paula Morgado de Sampaio was born in 1960, graduated in Agronomic Engineering from the University of Évora (UE) in 1984 and completed a PhD in Agronomic Sciences from University of Évora in 2003.

Currently and since 1987, she is a Professor of Pedology in Geosciences Department of University of Évora and Integrated Member in ICAAM (Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Mediterranean) inserted in the research group SWC (Soil, Water and Climate).His main areas of research and teaching are Pedology, Desertification, Environmental Risks, Relationship between Climate Change / Land Use and Soil Quality, and Land Evaluation participating in several projects, both national and European.

Well as working at the University, provided many services in the Regional Direction of Planning and Coordination of Alentejo Region as an expert on Desertification (1984/1988) and in CNCCD (National Committee of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification) since 2008.