Cláudia Carvalho-Santos holds a PhD in Biodiversity from the U. Porto, and is currently a researcher at the Center for Molecular and Environmental Biology at the U. Minho. She has been developing her research activity in the areas of water resources, climate change and ecosystem services, on which she has already published several articles in international specialized journals, and 4 book chapters. She is involved in different research projects, and is the coordinator of “Trees4Water”.