  The Portuguese School of Extremes and Applications is nowadays well
recognised by the international scientific community, and in my opinion, the
organisation of a NATO Advanced Study Institute on Statistical Extremes and
Applications, which took place at Vimeiro in the summer of 1983, was a landmark
for the international recognition of the group. The dynamic of publication has
been very high and the topics under investigation in the area of Extremes have
been quite diverse. In this article, attention will be paid essentially to some
of the scientific achievements of the author in this field.
