Manuel Lopes-Lima is a researcher at the CIBIO/InBIO Research Centre and the current (IUCN/SSC) coordinator of the Freshwater Bivalve Red List Authority within the Molluscs Specialist Group. His research interests are related to the global conservation of freshwater bivalves, including evolution, phylogeny, phylogeography, genetic diversity and ecophysiology. More recently he has been involved in assessing the biodiversity of large rivers using environmental DNA in tropical regions.