Célia Gouveia

Célia M. Gouveia is a senior researcher at the Earth Observation Unit of Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, IPMA, and an invited professor at the Science Faculty, University of Lisbon. She graduated in Geophysical Sciences and received her PhD from the University of Lisbon. Dr Gouveia initiated her research career in climate variability and extreme events such as fires, droughts and heatwaves. Her PhD in Remote Sensing allows her to relate the previous topics to the assessment of vegetation dynamics using satellite information. Her research topics include remote sensing applications related to wildfires, droughts, heat extremes, crop yields, and crop losses. She has worked on climate variability impacts and extremes on air quality and human mortality.

She is the Deputy Chair of the Wildfire Hazard Group on European Natural Hazards Scientific Partnership for Early-warning ARISTOTLE eENHSP (EU-ERCC) and coordinates the IPMA’s team on the FirEUrisk (H2020-LC-CLA-2018-2019-2020-project 101003890). She coordinated one and co-coordinates one national (FCT project) and participated in 11 International and 18 National projects. She was a consultant on the Agrometeorological Risk Management expert team, as a part of SC-AGR of SERCOM at WMO and is the national delegate at the Scientific Working Group from EUMETSAT.