PhD in Economics in 2014, Master in Management in 2009 from the Autonomous University of Lisbon (UAL), with a Postgraduate in Management of Innovation and Technological Evolution in 1987 from Fundetec (IST), and a Degree in Decision Systems Engineering in 1986 from Higher Institute of Informatics and Management.
Associate Professor at UAL, since 1986/87, the first year of its operation, teaching curricular units in the degrees of the Department of Economic and Business Sciences, namely Statistics I and II, and Project Management in the degrees of the Department of Engineering and Computer Sciences . He is also a professor of the Risk Management in IT Projects course of the Master's in Computer and Telecommunications Engineering.
Researcher at the Center for Research in Economic and Business Sciences (CICEE), Center for Economic Analysis of Social Regulation (CARS) and Autónoma TechLab, with several articles published in national and international scientific journals. Currently, he is also a Guest Researcher at the Center for Research in Business, Tourism and Innovation (EMTURIN).
Cooperator of the University Teaching Cooperative (CEU) since 1986, where he is currently Vice-President of the Board of the General Assembly and also Advisor to the Board of Directors of Grupo Autónoma. Since 1986, he has worked and managed several projects in the areas of organization and IT in Banking, and is currently a director at a Financial Institution with responsibility for the areas of Organization, IT, Administrative and Human Resources.