Paulo Pereira

2015-06-17

dr.Paulo Pereira has a PhD in Geography from the University of Barcelona. He is a member of global research networks and cooperates with scientists from all over the world. dr. Paulo loves research and teaching. He feels that there is no better job in life than create and share knowledge and ideas with others. Since childhood he developed an extreme curiosity for natural sciences and passed great part of the time creating maps and drawings of rural landscapes. At the school he was never a top level student, however, developed a great persistence and work capacity above the average - those characteristics became priceless in the future. dr. Paulo failed to enter in to the University twice, but he did not give up. Only after 4 years later he entered in to the University of Lisbon to study Geography. His dream to become a PhD student started to be a life objective and despite the fact of many PhD grant proposals being refused, he decided to move to Barcelona to do a PhD. In 2010, dr. Paulo became a PhD with the classification of Excellent Cum Laude and with the distinction of Doctor Europeaus. In 2011, already living in Lithuania, dr.Paulo became associated professor of Mykolas Romeris University. Three years later he got the position of Full Professor and presently he is also the head of the Environmental Management Centre. In 2015 he was awarded with the prize of Outstanding Young Scientist from the Soil System Science Division from the European Geoscience Union.