João Pedro Gouveia is an environmental engineer with a Ph.D. in Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies (2017), from NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal. He is an Invited Auxiliary Researcher and Project Manager at the Center for Environmental and Sustainability Research (CENSE). Since 2008, he has worked and coordinated activities in several EU, USA and national research and consultancy projects for public and private authorities, on topics such as energy poverty, climate change mitigation/adaptation, sustainable city districts, energy efficiency in buildings and national and cities’ energy systems' transitions. Since January 2021 he is part of the Coordination team of EPAH: EU Energy Poverty Advisory Hub. He is one of the founders and Board Member of DERA: Drawdown Europe Research Association (2019) and part of the Management Board of CENSE, where he is responsible for the cross-cutting area of "Impact on Society and Technology Transfer".