A lively viva on a subject that I really like to talk about, scientific illustrations! What an incredible day revisiting my alma mater, the Department of Life Sciences at the University of Coimbra!
I had the privilege of being invited to argue on the Diogo Santos’ PhD viva, where he brilliantly defended his thesis, “ESTEPÁRIAS “Em Risco”: O Papel da Ilustração Científica na Conservação das Aves Estepárias em Portugal.” Huge congratulations to Diogo and his supervisors, Fernando Correia (University of Aveiro, Portugal) and João Paulo Silva (BIOPOLIS, University of Porto), who kindly invited me.
It was also a joy to reconnect with Fernando, that I worked a long time ago in an educational project funded by the Ministry of Education to provide multimedia contents in the internet about birds for Secondary Schools. Such a nostalgic and heartwarming experience!
Diogo, his supervisors, and the jury, all beaming with joy after an outstanding MSc viva, where Diogo earned the maximum grade for his thesis