Eduardo Siegle is a Full Professor at the Oceanographic Institute of the University of São Paulo (IOUSP). He is currently the Director of the Oceanographic Institute of the University of São Paulo where he leads the Coastal Dynamics research group. He received a BSc in Oceanography from the Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG) in 1996, an MSc in Marine Geology from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in 1999, and PhD in Marine Sciences from the University of Plymouth, UK, in 2003. He completed his Habilitation at the Universidade de São Paulo (USP) in 2016. His work aims to better understand the complex interaction between the forcing conditions and the behavior of the coastal environment at various spatial and temporal scales.