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Paulo Jorge Silva Pereira

Paulo Jorge Silva Pereira

Summary

Paulo Pereira is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Earth Sciences. He graduated in Geography and Planning (2000) and received his PhD in Sciences (Geology) (2007) from the University of Minho, with a thesis on the geomorphological heritage of Montesinho Natural Park.

He was an FCT postdoctoral fellow at the Earth Sciences Centre (2007–2013) and an Invited Assistant Professor at the Department (2011–2017) before joining the permanent staff in 2017. He works on geomorphology, geodiversity, geological and geomorphological heritage, geoconservation and geotourism, including geosite assessment, the ecosystem services provided by geodiversity and the risks that climate change poses to coastal geoheritage.

He has been vice-president of the Portuguese Association of Geomorphologists since 2025, is a member of the Geoheritage Specialist Group of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas and of the European Federation of Geologists' Panel of Experts on Geological Heritage, and sits on the Executive Committee of ProGEO. He directs the MSc in Geosciences.

Compiled from: CIÊNCIAVITAE, ORCID

Research interests

  • Geomorphology
  • Geodiversity
  • Geomorphological heritage
  • Geosites
  • Geoconservation
  • Geotourism
  • Ecosystem services

Education

  • 2007
    PhD in Sciences (Geology)
    University of Minho
    Thesis: «Património geomorfológico: conceptualização, avaliação e divulgação. Aplicação ao Parque Natural de Montesinho»
  • 2000
    Degree in Geography and Planning
    University of Minho
    Thesis: «Aspectos Geomorfológicos da Vertente Norte do Maciço Culminante da Serra da Cabreira»

Current position

  • 2017 –
    Assistant Professor
    Department of Earth Sciences, University of Minho
  • Director of the MSc in Geosciences
    University of Minho

Ongoing projects

  • Impacts and risks related to climate change on the water-environmental, economic and social subsystems in the municipalities of the northern coast of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil CNPQ 59/2022
    2023–2026

Recent publications

  1. Identifying Optimal Cell Size for Geodiversity Quantitative Assessment with Richness, Diversity and Evenness Indices. Resources, 2023. doi:10.3390/resources12060065
  2. Criteria for Selecting Areas to Identify Ecosystem Services Provided by Geodiversity: A Study on the Coast of São Paulo, Brazil. Resources, 2022. doi:10.3390/resources11100092
  3. Towards a Model for Monitoring Threatened Geosites. Sustainability, 2026. doi:10.3390/su18073441
  4. Coastal Geoheritage and Sustainability: A Study in the Low Coast of Costa Branca, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Sustainability, 2025. doi:10.3390/su17156709
  5. Degradation Risk Assessment: Understanding the Impacts of Climate Change on Geoheritage. Sustainability, 2022. doi:10.3390/su14074262
  6. Risk of Degradation and Coastal Flooding Hazard on Geoheritage in Protected Areas of the Semi-arid Coast of Brazil. Water, 2023. doi:10.3390/w15142564

Publications since 2021 (ORCID and OpenAlex), ordered by the impact of the journal or series (two-year mean citedness in OpenAlex).

Full list of publications on ORCID

Information compiled from public sources: CIÊNCIAVITAE, ORCID, OpenAlex, Instituto de Ciências da Terra (photograph), accessed on 20-10-2026. To correct or complete this profile, use the website’s content manager or contact the Department’s Director.