Elton Vicente Escobar-Silva holds a Bachelor's degree in Environmental Sciences from the Federal University of São Paulo —UNIFESP (2015) and participated in an exchange program in Technologies for Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Disasters at the Universität Hamburg, Germany (2014/2015). He obtained a Master's Degree in Environmental Sciences from the Federal University of São Carlos — UFSCar (2019), which included a 6-month internship at the USDA-ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory in the USA. He earned his Ph.D. in Remote Sensing from the National Institute for Space Research — INPE (2024). His work focuses on geoinformatics, remote sensing, urban planning, hydrodynamic modeling, urban floods, flood early warning systems (FEWS), and climate change and water security. Currently, he is a post-doctoral researcher at the National Center for Monitoring and Alerts of Natural Disasters (Cemaden).