PhD and MPA held by The University of Liverpool.

Assistant Professor at School of Economics and Management,  Catholic University of Portugal.

Projeto PIC coordinator, from 2006 to 2011 at School of Economics and Management. 

Guest speaker at European Commission level and author in international academic journals in the study area of students competencies development (Employee Relations and Higher Education Management and Policy).

Recently, the research interest in the areas of student development was maintained more specifically in the field of academic fraud.

Regarding the organizational contexts, the focus of research has been on HR management practices in startup companies, as well as on the death of a company.