Dinis Duarte Pestana (BA in Mathematics, Lisbon 1973, PhD in Probability and Statistics, Sheffield 1978, Habilitation Degree in Applied Mathematics, Lisbon 1982) has been Professor of Probability and Biostatistics at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, from 1986 until retirement. He is co-author of two books and of 80 papers on infinite divisibility, generalised unimodality and convexity, internal and external studentization, count models and thinning, tail-weight and estimation of extreme value distributions parameters, and meta-analysis. He supervised 20 Ph.D. students. Aside from his teaching duties (Probability, Biostatistics, Sampling, and Statistics, Science and Society) at the Faculty of Science of Lisbon, he as been invited to teach at the Faculty of Pharmacy of Lisbon, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, University of Évora, University of Azores, University of Madeira, and University Agostinho Neto (Luanda). He is a senior researcher at Center of Statistics and Applications, University of Lisbon, and of the Institute of Scientific Research Bento da Rocha Cabral, Lisbon. He has been a founder member of SPE — Portuguese Statistical Society, and in 2013 was awarded the Life Achievement Award and elected Honorary member of SPE.