Pedro Cabral (PC) is Full Professor at NUIST, China. He was Associate Professor with Hab. in GIS at NOVA IMS until 2023. He got a PhD Applied Mathematics to Social Sciences at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France (2006). He holds a MSc in GIS (IST, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa). He was a post-doc Researcher at UMR AMURE (Ifremer-UBO, Brest) where he worked in marine and terrestrial ecosystem services (2012-2014). His research interests are Ecosystem Services and Geographical Information Systems. He has published in top academic journals, such as Ecosystem Services, Marine Policy, Land Use Policy, Biological Conservation, Journal of Cleaner Production, among many others. He is associate editor of the Journal of Urban Planning and Development (ASCE) and editorial board member of Geographies (MDPI). PC has been listed on the Scopus World’s Top 2% Scientists 2021 and 2022. He is a committee member for major international conferences including AGILE and IGARSS. PC is Principal Investigator of 2 research projects related to Ecosystem Services, GIS and Remote Sensing funded by Portuguese Science Foundation. He has coordinated work packages in 4 research projects and participated as team member in 10 research projects. PC is PI in 1 capacity building project funded by ERASMUS+. He has coordinated 5 work packages and participated as team member in 3 capacity building projects. He has (co)supervised 124 MSc concluded thesis and 7 PhD concluded thesis.