Prof. Pereira was born on 13 August, 1942 in Elvas, Portugal; received a doctoral degree in Hydrology from Zurich (1977) and a post-doctoral degree in irrigation and drainage from Lisbon (1980); was Professor since 1970 and Head since 1983. Agricultural Engineering, Technical University, Lisbon; He was Director General, Hydraulics and Agriculture Engineering, Ministry of Agriuculture 1977-1980; member of the Research Centre, Scientific Board and several specialised committees; responsible since 1985 for research coordination orientation in irrigation and drainage at National Institute of Agriculture Research, etc. He was Vice President of ICID from 1987-1990.
Professor Emeritus, Institute of Agronomy, University of Lisbon (luis.santospereira@gmail.com). Invited Professor at CIHEAM/IAM-Bari, Italy, University of Porto and University of Azores, Portugal. Research adviser at Universities in China and Brazil. Doctor honoris causa, University of Rousse, Bulgaria. Hon. President of CIGR, and Hon. Vice-President of the ICID. Member, Portuguese Academy of Engineering, the “Accademia dei Georgofili”, Italy, the American Academy of Water Resources Engineers, the Académie d’Agriculture de France and the Int. Academy of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering. Fellow, Portuguese Association of Engineers. Recipient of numerous awards conferred by ICID, CIGR and European Water Resources Association, various national and foreign institutions from Bulgaria, China, Egypt, Equator, India, Italy, Japan, Libia, Mexico, and USA. Consultant to FAO, UNDP and UNESCO.
Former leader of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Research Centre, and of the thematic area of Climate Change and Water Scarcity at LEAF, ISA-ULisboa. Former coordinator of research projects on irrigation water management on the North China Plain, the Yellow River Basin, the Aral Sea Basin and a network on Irrigation of Latin-American countries. Benchmark contributions/achievements refer to crop evapotranspiration (co-author of FAO56 Crop Evapotranspiration. Guidelines for Computing Crop Water Requirements), modelling the soil water balance (leader for developing of the ISAREG and SIMDualKc models) with applications to irrigation management in various countries, and water scarcity and droughts (author of Coping with Water Scarcity. Addressing the Challenges, a Springer book) and directing drought-related studies in various countries and regions. Author or co-author of a large number of papers in journals, book chapters, and conference speeches and papers. Editor/co-editor of several books and special issues of Journals, namely the special issue of Agric. Water Manage. on Updates and Advances to the FAO56 Crop Water Requirements Method, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2020.106697.
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