Jorge Miguel Alberto de Miranda
President of the Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA)
Jorge Miguel Alberto de Miranda studied at the University of Lisbon and graduated in Physics (Geophysics) in 1981, and received a doctorate in 1990, with Aggregation in 2002. His research is focused on Geomagnetism, Marine Geophysics and Natural Risks, particularly tsunamis. He has conducted a significant number of aerial and marine geophysical surveys. He is the author or co-author of +100 articles indexed in the Web of Science, and has been published in the main scientific journals of geophysics: Journal of Geophysical Research, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Geophysical Research Letters and Nature, with more than 2400 citations. Jorge is the author or co-author of articles and books for scientific dissemination, and of more than a hundred studies presented at international scientific conferences. He was part of the coordination of the European Network ESONET and the European infrastructure project EMSO, being a national representative in EMSO-ERIC. He was a member of the European Research Council's Earth System Sciences evaluation panel in the period 2009-2013 and has participated in international evaluation panels for geosciences, within the framework of FP7 and ANR (France). He is a corresponding member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences.