Carlos Aguiar

Graduated and PhD in agronomic engineering from the Instituto Superior de Agronomia. He is currently a professor at the Escola Superior Agrária de Bragança. For over 35 years he has dedicated himself to studying the flora and vegetation of mainland and island Portugal. His research interests also extend to pasture agronomy, fire-herbivory-pasture interactions, extensive animal production and the history of agronomy. He was a cooperating agronomist in several agricultural development projects in Guinea-Bissau. Recently, within the scope of Lisbon-European Green Capital 2020, and as part of the Botânica em Português collection, he published three textbooks that cover major topics in botany, from evolution to the biology, structure and systematics of vascular plants. Within the scope of the same collection, he was co-editor of the volume Vegetação de Portugal.