Pedro Matos Soares
Co-Founder & CEO
Pedro Matos Soares is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geographical Engineering, Geophysics and Energy and a Principal Researcher at the Instituto Dom Luiz (IDL), both at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon.
His PhD in Physics focused on turbulence and clouds in atmospheric models. Over the last three decades, his research has concentrated on climate modeling, climate change, adaptation and mitigation strategies, energy and sustainability, and artificial intelligence. From 2018 to 2023, he led the IDL research group Climate Change, Atmosphere–Land–Ocean Processes, and Extremes, and he currently heads a group focused on these same challenges. He has actively participated in 13 international projects (PI of 1) and 13 national projects (PI of 5), and coordinated the Portuguese CORDEX team, endorsed by the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). Pedro was the scientific coordinator of the National Roadmap for Adaptation 2100 (RNA2100) — a comprehensive assessment of the vulnerability of Portuguese territory to climate change throughout the 21st century — as well as the Regional Strategy for Climate Change Adaptation in Alentejo. He also coordinated the Municipal Climate Action Plan of Barcelos, and co-coordinated the Climate Change Adaptation Plan for E-REDES.
Recently, he was appointed to the Portuguese Council for Climate Action, and he is a member of both the Scientific Committee of the PhD Program in Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies and the Scientific Committee of the Portuguese Council for Health and Environment. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the Center for Sustainable Finance @ CATÓLICA-LISBON, the Fidelidade Impact Center for Climate Change, and the Pink Circle Cities Network. In the domain of climate change, its impacts, and adaptation, he collaborates closely with both public and private institutions, including Lisbon City Council, Lisbon Metropolitan Area, health authorities, the Portuguese Environment Agency, E-REDES, regional development and coordination commissions (CCDRs), Fidelidade, REN, and many others.
Pedro has published over 140 peer-reviewed scientific articles in international journals and has delivered hundreds of scientific and outreach presentations. He received the University of Lisbon/Caixa Geral de Depósitos Award in 2020 for scientific production in Earth Sciences over the previous five years, the Faculty of Sciences Earth Sciences Award in 2022, and in 2023 was awarded the Faculty of Sciences Scientific Merit Award (across all scientific disciplines).
Gil Lemos
Co-Founder & COO
Gil Lemos is a geophysicist and scientific researcher at Instituto Dom Luiz (IDL) – Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL), with over 10 years of experience in meteorology, climate modelling, ocean wave modelling and climate change adaptation. He is also a guest lecturer at IHE-Delft (The Netherlands).
Proficient user of several numerical, deep learning and machine learning models, Gil Lemos was co-leader of WP4 of the National Roadmap For Adaptation 2100 (RNA 2100), Estratégia Regional de Adaptação às Alterações Climáticas do Alentejo (ERAACA) and Plano Municipal de Ação Climática de Barcelos (PMACB), focusing on climate vulnerability and risk, mitigation and adaptation.
Extensive networking connections span 20 foreign countries. Since 2019, he published 30 papers in international peer-reviewed journals, being prized 4 times, for “Best communication” and "Best paper" in international conferences. Gil Lemos is currently co-leading the third phase of the Coordinated Ocean Wave Climate Project (COWCLIP-3), supported by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the UNESCO International Oceanographic Commission, defining new standards for the wave climate modelling within the framework of CMIP7.
Angelina Bushenkova
Co-Founder & CTO
Angelina Bushenkova is PhD student at Instituto Dom Luiz, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon (IDL-FCUL).
She completed her bachelor's degree in Meteorology, Oceanography, and Geophysics at the Faculty of Sciences in the University of Lisbon in 2021, and in 2023 she completed the master course in Geophysical Sciences, specializing in Meteorology and Oceanography, at the same institution. In 2025, she received the Academic Merit Award for her master's degree.
Since 2022 she have been working at the associated laboratory Instituto Dom Luiz (IDL), contributing to the development of several climate change action plans ranging from the municipal and regional to the national level (PMACB, ERAACA, and RNA2100 projects).
Additionally, she integrates an international flagship pilot study (CORDEX-FPS) on Urban Climate, that aims to improve the description of urban climate at regional and local levels through the application of downscaling modelling methods.
The major focus of her research has been on the improvement of urban climate description, using high resolution climate modelling and Artificial Intelligence for projecting future essential urban climate variables and the urban heat island phenomenon.
Recently, her research interests were complemented with the assessment of climate risk and the impacts of climate change on human health, particularly the effects of extreme temperatures on mortality. In short, she has authored one paper as a first author and co-authored two others. Additionally, she has contributed to several technical reports in the scope of the aforementioned projects.
