Around 400,000 years ago, early humans lived alongside giant elephants, much larger than their modern cousins. Its evolution has been a mystery to palaeaontologists, but the discovery of a skull has opened a window into the past.
José Miguel Dias graduated in Geography and Regional Planning from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of Nova University Lisbon and has a postgraduate degree in Sustainable Urbanism and Spatial Planning from the same institution.
He specialized in Civil Protection: Planning and Intervention by the CRIAP Institute and in more recent years he has developed several other specializations, at national and international level, in these areas and in those of emergency management, disaster risk management/reduction, and currently in the areas of disaster management and humanitarian crises. He is currently studying for a degree in Civil Protection at the Instituto Superior de Ciências da Informação e da Administração.
He has two scientific publications in the Chilean magazine LOGER, Revista Científica de Logística y Gestión de Riesgos and a publication in the November 2021 edition of the newsletter of the Centre for Studies and Intervention in Civil Protection.
Since 2021, he has been working as a volunteer firefighter with the Castelo Branco Volunteer Fire Brigade. He is a volunteer member of VOST Portugal since 2019 and was recently elected vice-president of the Castelo Branco Rotaract Club for the 2023-24 Rotary year. Professionally, he works as a freelance technical consultant in the areas of spatial planning and civil protection. He is also a junior trainer at UNGM/UNDSS/UM.
Since September 2022 he has been working as an editor at Meteored.
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