Tiago Capela Lourenço holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences (University of Lisbon 2015). He specialises in working across sectors, scales and disciplines and integrating multiple areas of knowledge related to climate adaptation, climate risk management and environmental decision-making. He is an Invited Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon (CIÊNCIAS) and an Assistant Researcher at FCiências.ID – Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências (FC.ID). He was responsible for the Portuguese participation in the CIRCLE CA (FP6 2005-2009) and coordinated the CIRCLE-2 ERA-Net (FP7 2010-2014). He has been involved in the BASE (FP7 2012-2015, co-organizer of ECCA15), IMPRESSIONS (FP7 2013-2018, co-organizer of ECCA17) and PLACARD (H2020 2015-2020, co-organizer of ECCA 2019). He is currently involved in the ERA4CS (H2020 2016-2021), SOCLIMPACT (H2020 2017-2020) and LOCOMOTION (H2020 2019-2023) projects. He is a member of the European Topic Centre on Climate Change Adaptation (ETC-CCA), with the European Environmental Agency.