Dimítri de Araújo Costa is biologist with a Master's degree in Ecology and Environmental Monitoring and a PhD in Development and Environment at the Federal University of Paraíba (PRODEMA/UFPB/Brazil), in partnership with the Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR), University of Porto/Portugal. Recipient of the Best Doctoral/PhD Thesis Award (PRODEMA/2021). He has experience in Environmental Education, Science Communication, Citizen Science, Ocean Literacy, Conservation, Morphoanatomical and Molecular Taxonomy, Systematics, Phylogeny and Ecology, with an emphasis on invertebrates associated with bioengineers, such as calcareous algae/rhodolith beds, fleshy algae, coral reefs, exotic and autochthonous plants in marine, brackish and freshwater environments. Member of the CIIMAR/Global Changes and Ecosystems Services Research Line from U.Porto since 2018, where he has a research contract, performing laboratory activities, education, supervision and field sampling. Since 2006, he has worked as a researcher (currently a volunteer) at the Paulo Young Scientific Collection of Invertebrates, Department of Systematics and Ecology, UFPB/Brazil. Due to his background in Museology and curating scientific collections, he participated in the creation of the Natural History Museum of the Iberian Peninsula (NatMIP)/Portugal, as the curator. He is a scientific collections editor of the GBIF/Global Biodiversity Information Facility website (https://www.gbif.org/)