Biography

Thomas Panagopoulos (Dr) is a Professor of landscape architecture, with MSc in renewable natural resources and PhD in forestry and natural environment. He is currently a member of the Research Centre for Tourism, Sustainability and Well-being, coordinating the group on Sustainable Territories. He has been department head of landscape architecture, and master's degree director at the University of Algarve, Portugal. He has acted as principal investigator in a total of approved funding of over 8 million euros. This is a result of his research strategy that crosses many disciplinary boundaries to create a holistic transdisciplinary approach to science, and his multi-cultured background in fostering research at the international level. Besides, he has vast experience in working on many European and private projects. During 2018-2023, he coordinated the projects: BIODES "Improving life in a changing urban environment through biophilic design"; RESTORE "Rethinking sustainability towards a regenerative economy" and TrailGazerBid "Enhancing natural and cultural assets to stimulate economic development". He has also served many cities to develop their sustainability plan. For six years was on the executive board of the UNISCAPE (the Network of Universities for the Implementation of the European Landscape Convention). Published 127 articles in peer-reviewed indexed journals, 46 book chapters, 80 papers in conference proceedings and 77 abstracts or posters, and author or editor of 24 books. Supervised 8 Ph.D. Thesis and 14 Master Thesis. Acted as principal investigator in 11 projects and participated as a researcher in more than a dozen. In his professional activities interacted with 280 coauthors in scientific work. In 2023 was one of the most cited scientists from the University of Algarve according to the latest update of the "World's Top 2% Scientist list", published by Stanford University.