Meet the editor

José Simão Antunes do Carmo obtained his master's degree in Hydraulics and Water Resources in 1990 from the University of Lisbon and his Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences in 1995 from the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He was director of several undergraduate and master's courses in Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering in the period 1995-2010. He was a scientific advisor of twenty-five master's dissertations and two

Ph.D. theses in Hydraulics and Water Resources. He has published two books, sixty-five papers in scientific journals, fifteen book chapters, and more than one hundred papers in international conferences. He has edited eleven books and a special issue of a scientific journal. He is a member of the editorial board of several international journals. His main areas of scientific research are hydrodynamics, morphodynamics, coastal management, river and coastal processes, climate change, natural hazards, risks, and vulnerabilities.

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