Sergio Prats concluded his European PhD in 2013 under the Marine & Environmental PhD program (PROMAR) in the University of Aveiro, and has a MsC degree in Environmental Sciences in the University of Coimbra. Bachelor in Environmental Sciences (2003) and Pedagogic Specialization Course (2005). He is auxiliary researcher at the University of Évora MED – Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development. He developed an extensive network of collaborations with Portuguese, Spanish and USA research centers, which are a unique international ring trial of leading experts tackling with land degradation from a variety of approaches. The new platform of research project that he is leading (SOLVO, SOLVIT) will allow the urgent assessment of new tools to restore degraded soils in Mediterranean regions, where the EU members have required joint efforts to address the climate emergency. In total, he participate in 13 ongoing + 20 past research projects. From these, 20 were funded by the Portuguese government (FCT-funded, H2020, PRR, Compete), 8 by the European Union, 2 by USA and 3 by the Spanish government. His work has resulted in publications in indexed international journals across different disciplines: environment, earth-surface and soil sciences and nature conservation and environmental engineering. He works in the area of Environmental Engineering and Agrarian Sciences with emphasis on Soil Science, and also in Engineering and Technology. In his cv Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms are: Runoff; Soil erosion; Wildfire; Emergency treatments; land management; Mulching; Polyacrylamide; SOM; carbon stocks; Subsurface flow; Streamflow; Soil moisture; Eucalypt; Pine; Terracing.

Summary of publication indexes (october 2023):

·    52 publications including: 40 WOS papers published in research journals (94% at Q1; 74% at D1 journals on  their category; 14 papers as 1st author), 10 papers published at national open access journals (38% as 1st author), 9 book chapters. More than 150 contributions to national and international (82%) conferences and more than 50 oral presentations and lectures (20 by invitation). Member of organizing and/or scientific committee of 6 International conferences. About 47 disseminations and outreach activities in Radio, TV, news and websites   ·    Reviewer for 19 SCI research journals since 2013   ·    165 citations per year in SCOPUS since 2019.   

Metrics:                                                                                                                                                                                                        Thompson Reuter: 52 documents, 40 WOS papers, 1226 cites, h-index=21, 19 reviews    http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9951-2019  ·  Scopus: 40 documents, 1374 citations, h-index=23  https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=23971055700                              Google scholar: 104 document, 1909 citations, h-index=24 https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=5J3wLP0AAAAJ&hl=pt-PT        Researchgate: 84 documents, 1729 citations, h-index=24, RIS score=752.2 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sergio_Prats              Personal webpages: https://www.uevora.pt/pessoas?id=237356

Teaching activities at U. Evora:  Co-supervision of 3 Master students (MSc): V. Daimonakos (ongoing), A. van Zinderen (13/04/2023), D. Petratou (20/06/2022) and of 2 Bachelor students  students at U. Evora (BSc): E. Stoutjesdijk (ongoing), C. Shaw (20/06/2023) and supervision of 4 research project fellows. Lecturer for BIP soil, Blended intensive Programme from the EU GREEN University Alliance, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences.

Principal Investigator (PI) of two Scientific projects funded under competitive calls by the Foundation of Science and Technology (FCT) (SOLVO-2022.06004.PTDC) and  the PRR (Plano Recuperação e Resiliência) of the Portuguese Government. Researcher in 13 ongoing + 20 past national & international (60%) scientific research projects  

More than 45 Knowledge-transfer activities, organization and facilitation of 5 participatory workshops and Coordination of 3 advanced course for forest and agriculture stakeholders.