João Pedro Pêgo is an Assistant Professor at University of Porto, Faculty of Engineering (FEUP), Department of Civil Engineering and Geo-resources, Hydraulic, Water Resources and Environment Division, and a Researcher at CIIMAR in the Water Resources Systems research team. He graduated as Civil Engineering from FEUP in 2000 and completed his PhD in Fluid Mechanics at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg in 2007. He obtained the Master in Data Science and Engineering in 2023. His research interests include fluvial hydraulics, sediment transport, hydrologic modelling of extreme events and decision support systems applied to water resources management.