João's thesis title is "CôaTerroir: Native green solutions for a resilient Côa Terroir under the projected climate change", supervised by Dr Conceição Santos (FCUP), Dr João Santos (UTAD) and Dr Domingos Lopes (Fundação Côa Parque). João is a scholarship member at CITAB, and a member at LAQV/REQUIMTE. His fellowship is funded by FCT ( PRT/BD/153394/2021).