Universidade de Trás‐os‐Montes e Alto Douro, Utad, Vila Real, Portugal.

Maria do Rosário Melo da Costa, born in 1962, Portuguese, has a degree in Geology (1985) from Universidade do Porto, and a PhD on “Hydrogeology of hardrocks from Terra Quente Transmontana” (1999), from Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD). Work as a professor at the Department of Geology of UTAD, since 1987.