Henrique Queiroga is Associate Professor at the Biology Department of the University of Aveiro, and a researcher at the Center for Environmental and Marine Studies – CESAM. He presently is a member of the Scientific Board of the National Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change, and Director of the doctoral programmes on Marine Science, Technology and Management - Do*Mar, and on Marine Ecosystems Health and Conservation - MARES (Erasmus Mundus). Henrique coordinated the successful application of the Berlengas Archipelago to the Biosphere Reserves Network (UNESCO), and is a member of the Strategic Council of the Reserva Natural das Berlengas. He has also acted as President of the External Evaluation Committees to assess B. Sc., M. Sc. and Ph. D. programmes in Portuguese universities on behalf of the Agency for Evaluation and Accreditation of Higher Education, was a member of the Board of Directors of the CESAM - Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies for several years, and the coordinator of CESAM’s research group on Marine and Estuarine Ecology. Henrique is Professor of Marine and Estuarine Ecology, Marine Conservation and of Biological Oceanography. His main research interests are the interactions between behaviour of larval forms and physical forcing in the control of dispersal and recruitment of marine species, the integration of multiple tools (numeric biophysical models, genetic markers, elemental fingerprinting) to assess population connectivity, large scale biodiversity patterns, conservation, and marine ecosystem services. He has been Principal Investigator or team member of >20 national and international research projects, and (co)-supervisor of 22 M. Sc. students, 19 Ph. D. students and 7 post-doc researchers. As a PI, director of doctoral programmes and supervisor Henrique has attracted >3.5 M€ in competitive funding. His research outputs include 100 papers published in leading International journals and over 120 presentations in conferences. Henrique has been a member of the organizing or scientific committees of 12 international conferences and workshops, chairman of the 38th European Marine Biology Symposium and co-chair of the Campus do Mar International Science Conference 2016. Henrique has acted as panel member to assess appointments to Full Professor and Maître de Recherches at the Universities of Melbourne and Pierre et Marie Curie, referee of grants and research proposals submitted to the Foundation for Science and Technology (Portugal), National Science Foundation (USA), California Sea Grant (USA), and International Science Foundation (Sweden), and referee of dozens of manuscripts submitted to leading scientific journals in marine sciences.