Miguel Joaquim Fernandes Potes is an Assistant Researcher of the Center for sci-tech Research in EArth sysTem and Energy (CREATE - UIDB/06107, https://www.create.uevora.pt/) from the University of Évora. He has a solid background in Atmospheric Physics and Climate and completed his PhD in 2013 with a thesis entitled "Remote sensing and in situ determination of physical and micro-biological parameters of inland waters and its application on lake-atmosphere modelling". In 2015, Miguel received the Young Scientist Award from European Meteorological Society (EMS). From 2016 to 2019 Miguel was intensively involved in ALOP project (ALentejo Observation and Prediction systems - http://www.alop.ict.uevora.pt/). In 2025, Miguel became General Secretary of the Portuguese Association of Meteorology and Geophysics (APMG, https://www.apmg.pt/) and in 2026, Director of the CREATE centre. He was involved in more than 20 National and International projects and currently is leading 3. Miguel has more than 40 peer-reviewed articles as author/co-author with more than 950 citations and scores a h-index of 17. Orcid: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8912-5277ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Miguel_Potes/info Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7801553346