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. In total, I participate in 13 ongoing + 20 past research projects. From these, 19 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 (February 2023):   

·   53 publications including: 

- 36 SCI papers published in research journals (82% at Q1; 64% at D1  journals on their category; 13 papers as 1st author), - 10 papers published at national open access journals (38% as 1st author)   -   7 book chapters

·   138 contributions to national and international (82%) conferences: more than 50 oral presentations and lectures / 20 by invitation   

·   Member of organizing and/or scientific committee of 6 International conferences

·   45 disseminations and outreach activities in Radio, TV, news and websites

·   Reviewer for 17 SCI research journals since 2013

·   148 citations per year in SCOPUS (136 in Publons) since 2018   

 Metrics:

• Thompson Reuter: 47 documents, 35 WOS papers, 1067 cites, h-index=20, 19 reviews

http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9951-2019

• Scopus: 35 documents, 1199 citations, h-index=21

https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=23971055700

• Google scholar: 97 documents, 1684 citations, h-index=23

https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=5J3wLP0AAAAJ&hl=pt-PT

• Researchgate: 79 documents, 1512 citations, h-index=21, RIS score=752.2

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sergio_Prats

• Personal webpages:

https://www.uevora.pt/pessoas?id=237356

https://www.med.uevora.pt/pt/perfil/359/