Graduated with a major in Architecture and with a master's degree in Management, she was a fashion stylist and worked in Digital Marketing, in a luxury product company, and in a pharmaceutical company. The documentary Cowspiracy and a conference on Zero Waste generated the first concerns with sustainability. She created the blog Do Zero and today seeks to live with the minimal ecological footprint possible.

Trained as a biologist at Lisbon University, he has been working as a biodiversity researcher for about three decades. He is currently the main researcher and director of CIBIO - Center for Research in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, as well as the holder of the EDP Biodiversity Chair.

Graduated in Biology from Porto University, he was a Biology professor for a decade and a half. From 2004 to 2007 he served as Director of Douro Internacional Nature Park. In 2009 he joined EDP, where he works as a biodiversity expert at the Sustainability Department.